Nokia has released an official beta version of OS2008 1for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. This release is mainly targeted to developers working on maemo 4.0 Chinook. Porting and developing applications for Chinook was already possible with the beta and final releases of the maemo SDK. This image allow developers to fine tune testing and performance on their Nokia N800 and get software virtually ready for the new Nokia N810 as well.
The OS2008 final release for the N800 is expected to come sometime in mid December.
A company called Lagos Analysis Corporation has sent out a press release announcing a patent infringement lawsuit against the One Laptop Per Child project. “The patent infringement lawsuit was filed on November 22nd, 2007 as a result of OLPC’s willful infringement of LANCOR’s Nigeria Registered Design Patent #RD8489 and illegal reverse engineering of its keyboard driver source codes for use in the XO Laptops.” The patent in question relates to physical multilingual keyboard technology.
LANCOR is seeking substantial damages as well as a permanent injunction to prevent OLPC from continuing to unlawfully manufacture, sell, distribute or offer for sale the XO Laptop, and any other products infringing on the RD8489 and using the illegally acquired keyboard driver source codes. (via LWN)
HowToForge has a new article on how to manage your mobile phone with Wammu via bluetooth on Fedora 8. Depending on the manufacturer and model of your mobile phone, you’ll be able to retrieve your contacts (SIM & phone), calls, messages, todos, calendar and system information. You can also create contacts, events, todos and messages or manage data backups. In addition you can use the bluetooth manager to access your mobile phone like a standard storage media or use the Gnome phone manager for realtime messaging.
Haier America is shipping a WiFi-enabled portable media player (PMP) based on Linux. The “Ibiza Rhapsody” has a 30GB hard drive, and is designed to work with the Rhapsody digital music service, AOL Video, and other digital content services. The Ibiza is said to “seamlessly” integrate wireless access, media playback, and Bluetooth audio capability (30GB model only). It also integrates an FM radio.
The 4.9-ounce (140-gram), 2.4 x 0.5 x 4.1-inch Ibiza is equipped with a 2.5-inch, 320 x 240-pixel QVGA LCD display with 65,000 colors. The battery provides three hours of video playback and over 10 hours for audio, says Haier. The device is said to support MPEG4, WMV, M4V, AVI, H.264, and MPG video files, and MP3, WMA, WAV, and AAC audio files.
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
To get some perspective on what lies ahead in 2008, InformationWeek caught up with Linus Torvalds via email. His responses touched on the Linux development process, upcoming features, and whether he’s concerned about potential patent litigation.
I just came across a good series of videos on the OpenMoko platform on YourTube. A user going by the name of mokoNinja has posted a bunch of videos that demonstrate the current progress of the OpenMoko platform running on the Neo 1973 hardware. You can watch the web browser preview above, and check here if you’re interested in more on the RSS app, media player and other interface elements.
LinuxDevices has published a hands-on article that introduces the Google Android Linux/Java mobile phone SDK (software development kit). After a tour of Android’s tools, documentation, and code samples, it suggests a path for further exploration and concludes with a simple applet showing the power and simplicity of the Android environment.
IBM’s developerWorks has published a tutorial on Software development for the OpenMoko Linux phone. The tutorial introduces the OpenEmbedded build environment used to create filesystem images for OpenMoko phones, 1such as the Neo 1973. The OpenMoko environment provides a completely free development environment for running application and system code on supported phone hardware, eliminating all dependency on proprietary code.
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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A company called Lagos Analysis Corporation has sent out a 
Haier America is shipping a WiFi-enabled portable media player (PMP) based on Linux. The “Ibiza Rhapsody” has a 30GB hard drive, and is designed to work with the Rhapsody digital music service, AOL Video, and other digital content services. The Ibiza is said to “seamlessly” integrate wireless access, media playback, and Bluetooth audio capability (30GB model only). It also integrates an FM radio. 
IBM’s developerWorks has 
