Sub-$10 processor does HD video, runs Linux, Sep 04, 2007

Texas Instruments (TI) is sampling an ultra low-cost dual-core (RISC/DSP) processor with an integrated high-definition (HD) video encoder. The chipmaker launched its sub-$10 TMS320DM355 SoC (system-on-chip), together with a development board running MontaVista Linux, at the IBC video broadcaster's convention in London this week.

W3Counter revealed that it took into consideration 33,640,022 unique visits to no less than 5,570 websites. In this context, both Linux and Windows 98 scored a usage share of 1.34%.

Motorola today sent out a mass email inviting recipients to "experience" its Linux-based RAZR2 V8 phone "at your nearest mobile phone store." The phone will be offered by all major U.S. GSM/GPRS providers, including AT&T (formerly Cingular), Sprint, and T-Mobile, according to reports.

HP and Red Hat have started selling a new Linux-based desktop PC targeting small and medium-sized businesses.

Gaming giant Tattersalls has chosen to abandon Linux as it moves ahead with a $43 million project to streamline its multi-state Maxgaming poker machine business.

Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java.

France has voted against the adoption of Microsoft's document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain.

There was a time when installing Linux on a notebook computer was a plug-and-pray operation: Most of the time most of the things worked but there were always a few that didn't and you eventually learned to live with it. Not so on the X60.

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