Mio Technology to launch MiBuddy with Google Android
Mio Technology has announced that they are working on a new version of their MiBuddy device that would be powered with Google Android OS.
It would be launched sometime next year and would work as a mobile internet device as well.
It would of course work as [...]
Intel sees a huge market for Atom processors in India
India is a land of small cars and cheap computers. Netbooks are gaining massive popularity in India due to their low costs.
Intel is one company that aims to benefit from that.
The company said that their Atom range of processors can make computing more [...]
Sharp PC-Z1 mobile internet device announced
Japanese tech giant Sharp has displayed their latest tech gizmo named PC-Z1.
Sharp PC-Z1 is essentially a mobile internet device featuring a 5 inch touchscreen.
It is designed to run web based services and applications.
The company said that the device is small enough to be a smartphone but is [...]
Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 announced
Nokia has announced their latest mobile internet device Nokia N900.
Nokia N900 as expected comes powered by Maemo 5 mobile platform based on the Linux OS.
The device comes equipped with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 3.5-inch, 800×480-pixel touchscreen.
Nokia N900 comes powered with a 600-MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. [...]
Optima announces Maemo powered mobile internet device
Chinese hardware company Optima has announced that they are working on a new mobile internet device that would be powered with Maemo mobile platform.
Incidentally, Maemo is only used by Nokia on their devices including Nokia 770, N800 and N810.
Optima OP5-E would become the first non-Nokia product in the [...]
TechCrunch gets into hardware business with CrunchPad Inc!
Industry sources say that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has formed a start-up company named CrunchPad with around 14 employees.
This company is based in Singapore and it would look after the manufacturing of his pet project CrunchPad.
CrunchPad was designed with the aim of creating a cheap internet [...]
Dell working on an Android powered Apple iPod Touch rival?
Wall Street Journal has reported that Dell is working on a mobile internet device which would be powered using Google Android mobile platform.
This device would be similar to Apple iPod Touch but slightly larger.
It would not work as a mobile phone but would feature [...]
LG and Intel collaborates on mobile internet devices
Intel has announced that they are collaborating with South Korean tech giant LG Electronics.
LG would now use Intel technologies in their latest range of mobile internet devices.
These devices would be developed using Intel Moorestown processors.
They would also use Moblin as their operating system which is promoted [...]
Intel collaborates with Ericsson for HSPA
US based microprocessor industry giant Intel has announced a collaboration with Ericsson.
Intel would now be using Ericsson’s High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) data solution in their next generation mobile Internet device platform.
This platform is currently codenamed Moorestown.
This announcement was made at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Ericsson would [...]
Opened Hand acquired by Intel
Microprocessor Company Intel has announced that they are now acquiring Linux Company Opened Hand.
Opened Hand specializes in providing mobile Linux development and services.
After the acquisition, this new unit of Intel would work for the Moblin Software Platform community.
This platform is being developed for the Intel Atom processor aimed at mobile internet [...]
