DataViz has announced the availability of Documents To Go for the MontaVista Mobilinux 5.0 mobile operating system. As a result of the integration of the mobile office suite Documents To Go by DataViz with Mobilinux, mobile device users will be able to open and view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint email attachments directly on their Linux-based mobile devices.

MontaVista will resell Documents To Go to mobile device developers and manufacturers, so the manufacturers and mobile operators can deliver document viewing capabilities to their customers on any device using the Mobilinux 5.0 mobile operating system. MontaVista and DataViz have agreed to collaborate to tailor Documents To Go to include additional features such as its critically acclaimed file editing, creation and more, based upon customer requests.

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Access and MontaVista Software today reinforced their shared commitment to accelerate the development of linux powered mobile devices by releasing a pre-integrated software stack combining the ACCESS Linux Platform with the MontaVista Mobilinux operating system. Because the new software stack pre-integrates the ACCESS Linux Platform framework and applications with MontaVista’s commercialized Linux operating system, it significantly decreases the weeks or months of engineering time required for do-it-yourself integration, and it also reduces associated costs and risks.

“The integration of the ACCESS Linux Platform with MontaVista Mobilinux provides mobile developers with more choices, faster time to market, less risk, and easier deployment in carrier networks,” said Toru Arakawa, CEO, president and co-founder of ACCESS. “While the ACCESS Linux Platform supports multiple Linux operating system kernels, this implementation with the field-proven Mobilinux software will further help device manufacturers and application developers bring innovative mobile products to consumers even more quickly in the fast-paced mobile industry. In addition, it will make it easier to port ACCESS Linux Platform on top of the many silicon platforms supported by MontaVista Mobilinux.”

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MontaVista Software has announced its new 5.0 release of MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE), the carrier grade Linux operating system preferred by 7 of the top 8 network equipment providers (NEPs). New MontaVista Linux CGE 5.0 provides telecom carriers with new scalability features to handle unexpected jumps in protocol traffic, new functions to increase reliability, new field-serviceability features, and new NSA-level security protection.

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PC World - A group of seven companies including Mozilla Corp., Arm Ltd. and MontaVista Software Inc. are hoping to grow the market for a relatively new device category that sits in between a smartphone and a laptop.

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MontaVista Software has announced the new 5.0 release of Mobilinux, the mobile operating system used in 90 percent of Linux-based smartphones. Mobilinux provides a commercial-quality, field-proven embedded Linux operating system (OS) optimized for mobile devices plus a rich development environment for the engineers who design them. Mobilinux 5.0 will enable manufacturers to deliver new mobile devices (such as phone handsets, GPS devices, portable medical devices, and wireless point-of-sale terminals) to consumers more quickly and with new functions, breakthrough connectivity, fast performance, NSA-level security, and battery-extending dynamic power management.

MontaVista’s Mobilinux 5.0 boasts Linux 2.6.21 kernel support and includes a number of updated features, such as improved security, improved power management tools, additional support for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on USB dongles, and faster startup times. It will be available in November.

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MontaVista Software announced today that the company has joined the non-profit LiMo Foundation to help LiMo’s mission of increasing the adoption of Linux operating system software in cell phones and other mobile devices.

Leading handset manufacturers such as NEC, Motorola, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and others have made MontaVista the most widely used provider of Linux software to the mobile telephony market, and the fastest-growing commercial operating system (OS) provider in that market, according to analyst firm VDC. MontaVista Mobilinux provides an embedded Linux operating system optimized for mobile devices and a rich development environment. Mobilinux enables developers and manufacturers to deliver new handsets to consumers more quickly and with greater functionality, fast performance, and battery-extending power management. More than 35 million smartphones, cell phones, and other mobile devices run on MontaVista Mobilinux, far more than any other commercial Linux.

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MontaVista Software has sent out a press release stating it is the leader in embedded Linux for mobile devices, according to a recent report from analyst firm Venture Development Corporation (VDC). The VDC report also states that MontaVista Software is the fourth-largest mobile application operating system provider in terms of revenue, with the company’s Mobilinux product taking market share away from industry giants Microsoft, Symbian, and ACCESS/PalmSource.

MontaVista’s flagship mobile solution, Mobilinux, is an optimized Linux operating system and development environment for mobile devices with requirements for power management, hard real-time performance, rapid start-up times, and small footprints.

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MontaVista Software today announced the release of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0, the latest version of the industry’s most widely deployed commercial Linux and development platform. This release of the popular software development platform provides the most advanced native Linux real-time capabilities to date, with performance matching that of traditional real-time operating systems for the first time in the industry.

Moreover, MontaVista has dramatically reduced the memory footprint of this fifth-generation OS, giving device manufacturers a high performance, feature rich solution for even the smallest connected devices. These two major advancements support end-to-end deployment of Linux, enabling a new generation of intelligent devices optimized for multimedia as well as the infrastructure that supports them. MontaVista’s investments in real-time response and resource usage yield impressive returns in voice quality, streaming video, network bandwidth and overall quality of service, making MontaVista Linux the ultimate platform for media convergence.

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MontaVista Software has strengthened its position as the leading provider of Linux for intelligent devices and communications infrastructure with the development of new advanced smartphones set to be released in Italy.

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