LinuxWorld Day Two Gets Rolling
by Sam Dean - Aug. 05, 2008Comments (0) | Trackback URL- Related Blog Posts
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The LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco is open for day two, and the announcements are coming fast and furious. Motorola's ROKR EM30 has been announced, making it the 22nd handset based on the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux platform. Meanwhile, new security and Wi-Fi monitoring tools are being unveiled. Here are some of the top new arrivals.
Mototorola's news that its ROKR EM30 is the 22nd LiMo handset follows yesterday's news about seven new LiMo handsets, including models from NEC and Panasonic. The ROKR EM30 is a GSM quad-band phone that supports global roaming and offers music features.
Alfresco Software has a new hookup with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu. Canonical will offer Alfresco Labs 3, enterprise content management software, as part of a software download in its partner repository.
Linux has been notorious for causing Wi-Fi users headaches, but better tools are appearing all the time. At LinuxWorld, Xirrus has announced a new Wi-Fi Monitor utility, targeted as an open source applet for monitoring and troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks.
Pivot3 has announced Pivot3 Serverless Networking, which allows for the elimination of dedicated application servers, replacing them with less costly X86-based storage nodes.
EasyCo is showing off its Managed Flash technology, which improves the processing speeds of solid state disks. It's Flash memory engineered to look like a disk drive to the processor.
You can find many more announcements from the LinuxWorld conference here.
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