Palm just wrapped up the webcast for the Foleo product introduction. Jeff Hawkins formerly introduced the device, talked about it’s development and intended use and revealed some more specs and details about the upcoming Foleo mobile companion.

Read on for some of our notes and more details from the presentation.

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Palm has officially announced the Foleo, its first smartphone companion product. The Palm Foleo has a large screen and full-size keyboard with which to view and edit email and office documents residing on a smartphone. Edits made on Foleo automatically are reflected on its paired smartphone and vice versa. The device stays in sync via a bluetooth connection and it also includes a built-in Wi-Fi radio for general Internet connectivity.

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop, continuing its push toward a September launch date.

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Some say the Classmate PC is Intel’s answer to (or competition with) the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) effort. Intel is hawking the lilliputian laptop in “emerging markets” like Nigeria, India, and Mexico as a solution for worldwide education of primary and secondary students. It’s to be officially released and shipped en masse to schools in Africa and South and Central America by the end of June. Recently my children and I borrowed a Classmate PC loaded with a custom version of Mandriva Linux. Most of us had fun.

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Disagreements between developers from the G Palmtop Environment (GPE) project and the administrators of the mobile Linux portal Handhelds.org now include a trademark dispute. Handhelds.org claims trademark ownership of the name GPE, and has demanded control over the GPE IRC channel.

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Dell will start taking orders on PCs pre-loaded with Ubuntu’s distribution of the Linux operating system around 2 p.m. PST today.

The three models to carry the Linux option will be the E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook, both $600, and the XPS 410n, which starts at $900.

Ecommercetimes has posted an interview with Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings.

LinuxInsider: What is the current market situation for mobile Linux and open phones trends?

Benoit Schillings: The market is very exciting right now and growing rapidly. With Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Latest News about Nokia and Palm’s (Nasdaq: PALM) Latest News about Palm recent announcements in support of Linux, we see a lot more promise around the growing shipments of Linux-based devices in the marketplace. We also see a lot of interest in driving innovation around new sets of applications with the availability of open phones. If people could customize their own phone like they can with laptops and PCs, I think you would see a lot more happy mobile phone subscribers out there.

LinuxDevices reports on a new U.S. government- and industry-led coalition aiming to equip every car and roadside in America with wirelessly connected computers has tapped Linux for a prototype design. The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VII-C) hopes to lower driver death rates, reduce traffic jams, and media-enable cars before 2017.

Dell has laid out what we can expect from the Ubuntu distro they are going to install on their new Linux machines.

• The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications.
• The peripheral options offered with Ubuntu will be a subset of what is offered with other operating systems. We’re offering the hardware options on each system that have the most mature and stable Linux driver support. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested by the Linux team here at Dell.
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• At this time, we are not including any support for proprietary audio or video codecs that are not already distributed with Ubuntu 7.04. These include MPEG 1/2/3/4, WMA, WMV, DVD, Quicktime, etc. We are evaluating options for providing this support in the future.

Mizi Research has updated its graphical user interface framework for consumer electronic devices like mobile phones. Prizm 3.0 has switched to Python as its main application programming language, and has gained modern visual effects such as “dragging, sliding, fading and accelerated smart scrolling,”

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