The Linux car that drives itself, Mar 06, 2008

Caroline is a 2006 Volkswagen Passat, converted by a team from the Braunschweig University of Technology to be an autonomous vehicle.

PC maker and services company Elonex is to launch a $195 laptop aimed at students.

Opera has released the latest version of its browser for high-end mobile phones, claiming it offers faster rendering and responsiveness than its predecessors.

Trolltech, whose Qtopia platform is already the foundation for many consumer-level handsets in Asia, was a founder member of the LiPS Forum. However, it quietly left that group in the second half of last year. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, Trolltech announced that it has now joined the rival LiMo Foundation.

Very few people lie awake at night fretting over their choice of mobile operating system. In fact, very few people even know what operating system their handset uses.

Acer is planning to sell Linux-based PCs to the UK market, the company told ZDNet.co.uk.

Acer will not release Linux-based laptops in the UK due to a lack of demand, despite launching an Ubuntu-based machine in Asia.

Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development.

Linux-based Web sites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research.

More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US.

More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US.

Dell has revealed the reasons behind its decision to delay the availability of Linux sold outside the US.

European businesses are only considering migrating to Linux when they decide to deploy new applications, but most currently have no intention of moving to Windows Vista either, according to a survey released this week.

A second reprogrammable open Linux handset has been unveiled, only months after Trolltech introduced its Linux-based Greenphone to the developer community.

Chipset manufacturer Texas Instruments has joined one of the mobile Linux alliances, in a further boost for the platform's development

The company has become the first 'dual-licence' open source operation to float, as its co-founder sees trouble ahead for open-source-averse companies

The co-founder of one of the most popular mobile Linux platforms has predicted a "revolution" in the use of open-source software on phones and handheld devices.