Apple 2.0 writer Philip Elmer-DeWitt asks “who can Bury Whom?” It’s the question that is appropriate but there is no answer that is easy. Weekly ago, Gartner and IDC circulated forecasts which is often apparently non-congruent mobile systems that are working futures. Whom should you imagine? Gartner, IDC or Microsoft? Windows Phone 7’s release to …
The switch from Windows to Android is noteworthy. Many tablets are moving towards the android generation and Asus does not want to be the last. The Asus EP101TC table has moved from Windows CE to Android. The company displayed its prototype of the tablet which was a 10 inch ARM based tablet and is likely …
Asus-EP101TC for Android and HP trademarks Palmpad Read More »
If you thought the Xoom name left one thing to be desired, Verizon’s stigmatization of the Xoom a pair of line because the Droid Xyboard (pronounced like “cyborg”) line is not aiming to perk you up. Irrespective, during a unharness these days they proclaimed the eight.2″ and ten.1″ Xyboard variants would be launching aboard A …
We’ll be covering the interrupt latency of the hard real-time Linux alternatives. The interrupt latency is the time that elapses when an interrupt begins to where the interrupt source is serviced. Depending on the microprocessor design, interrupt masking, interrupt controllers and the OS’ interrupt handling, the latency can be affected. This work was done as …
A Comparison of Hard Real-Time Linux Alternatives – Interrupt Latency Read More »
The Norwegian company, Trolltech, has two product lines of its own: Qtopia and Qt. Now this company has come out with it’s new full Linux smartphone stack and is calling it the GreenPhone based on it’s Qtopia technology platform. The Linux smartphone comes with communications and packages management utilities all of which are under the …
TrollTech rolls a complete Linux smartphone stack Read More »
Softier has produced the first implementation of Linux that’s usable on a single-core digital signal processor (DSP). The company mentioned that its technology performs real-time encoding/decoding of DVD quality video at 30 frames per second while simultaneously being able to run Linux software on the side. The C54x DSP is the name of the DSP …
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) the support for embedded RTOS in DSP for many years with the DSP/BIOS kernel. TI has open-sourced its hardware featuring for the community. Why did TI opensource their technology? Open-sourcing a technology enables companies to innovate faster, improve collaboration and get constant access and updates while also reducing the amount of …
Embedded Linux Distro Supports TI DSP-based Digital Media Processors Read More »
The computer giant IBM has unveiled an open Linux based PDA reference design in New York. The IBM PowerPC is based on the 405LP embedded processor. The following is the configuration for the PDA: Host with USB 1.1 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Serial port An 8-bit or 16-bit PCMCIA slot JTAG port for debugging Flash port …
You no longer need to create workarounds to watch Netflix on Linux. Netflix can run easily on Linux with the following steps. Install Chrome 37 or higher This wouldn’t really make much of a sense to specify since Chrome auto-updates to the latest one. But for those who’re still on an older version and would …