Apr 1, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The MeeGo operating system (OS) code is now available to the open-source community. This availability is the latest step in the full merger of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo software platforms...
Mar 23, 2010
The FancyPants 3.0 UI from Fluffy Spider Technologies now supports the Google Android platform. This multimedia applications framework gives OEMs of Android-based devices and their channel partners new capabilities to differentiate their wares in an increasingly crowded marketplace, the company says...
Mar 11, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Navteq and dSpace are working together to create an integrated development platform for digital map-enhanced driver assistance systems, which have a growing influence on the reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions and increased driving safety....
Feb 11, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
The VirtualLogix VLX MH4.0 virtualization software adds increased functionality for mobile silicon vendors and OEMs to more quickly and easily design smart-phone functionality into lower-cost, single-core, ARM-based consumer phones....
Jan 21, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Version 6.8 of Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS delivers improvements in multicore support and fundamental OS features, decreasing time-to-market while lowering costs and improving quality for device manufacturers, according to the company. ...
Jan 8, 2010,
MD&D News Staff
Skiff LLC and Marvell have teamed up for the Skiff Reader Development Kit (RDK), which is designed to enable manufacturers to more easily create innovative reading devices with various display sizes, fast performance, and reduced overall component costs....
Dec 14, 2009,
Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
One of the key challenges in implementing Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in the forthcoming infrastructure change is scalability. With Continuous Computing’s Trillium FastPath system, carriers can build their systems to serve small cellular needs but then easily expand to handle the mass deployments that are sure to come....
Nov 18, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will launch its bada open mobile platform in December. It will enable developers to create applications for new Samsung mobile phones while providing a fun and diverse mobile experience for consumers....
Oct 27, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
The Symbian Foundation has announced the launch of the Symbian Horizon publishing program. Developers can sign up to have their applications listed in the Symbian Horizon Directory, processed through Symbian Signed, and published to a growing list of application store partners....
Oct 5, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Adobe Systems Inc. has unveiled its Flash Player 10.1 software for Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Flash platform to reach users wherever they are. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, and desktop operating systems....
Jul 28, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Mirics Semiconductor is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smart-phone applications by migrating its FlexiTV platform to the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors. The company also is launching a range of mobile TV and radio applications for products targeted by the Intel Atom CPU platform....
Jul 9, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Airvana Inc., ip.access, and Ubiquisys will support the Femto Forum’s Services SIG by working together toward a common service framework and APIs. The SIG’s mission is to develop a framework to simplify the development and deployment of femtocell applications, which includes efforts to establish a set of standard APIs. ...
May 21, 2009,
By Louis E. Frenzel, Editor in Chief
The virtualization of computers has been going on for years in the enterprise to save on hardware and software costs, decrease power consumption, and generally improve efficiency. Commercial virtualization software is widely available. Now you can virtualize a handset, as Open Kernel Labs has announced software that brings the benefits of virtualization to cell phones...
May 14, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
mimoOn GmbH will demonstrate end-to-end LTE on platforms from Cavium Networks and ARM Ltd. The mimoOn mi!InfraStack advanced LTE software package will run on Cavium’s Octeon MIPS64 multicore processor on the infrastructure side, which is connected via a PHY emulation to an LTE UE mobile implementation by partner Qasara running on an embedded ARM 926 processor. ...
May 12, 2009,
MD&D News Staff
Intrinsyc Software International and Ubiquisys have teamed up to develop UX-Zone, a femtocell application that automatically changes the appearance of Android phone interfaces as users enter their home or office. The application incorporates femtocell presence triggers from the Ubiquisys FemtoApps initiative. ...