From mobile phones to network infrastructure to fun desktop applications, here’s a look at 10 products that embrace Linux and other open source ways of life.

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From mobile phones to network infrastructure to fun desktop applications, here’s a look at 10 products that embrace Linux and other open source ways of life.

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If recent blog posts about the increase in capacity of CompactFlash cards and small-size hard drives make you wonder what’s in store for your mobile phones, then I have some good news.

(Credit: ScanDisk)

On Monday, SanDisk announced its new microSD high-capacity (microSDHC) card that offers up to 16GB …

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Motorola has started a public preview of development tools for unreleased Linux mobile phones. The free Eclipse-based tools will help Linux developers create, test and certify native applications for the newest Motorola handsets.
- Motorola has released a quot;public preview quot; of the first-ever native
development tools for unreleased models of its Linux-based
mobile phones.
MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3 is a freely downloadable, Eclipse-based tool suite
aimed at helping third-party and community Linux developers create…

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Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Monday 22 September 2008. 17:30:00

Is that a phone in your pocket?

SPERM HAS YET another enemy – this time it’s none other than your trusty device, the mobile phone. That’s right, the Cleveland Clinic is now saying that keeping your mobile phone in talk-mode and in your pocket can decrease sperm quality – if you’re a man of course. Ashok Agarwal, the Director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine says that, “We believe that these devices are used because we consider them very safe, but it could cause harmful effects due to the proximity of the phones and the exposure that they are causing to the gonads.” Agarwal’s team took semen samples from 32 men and brought them to the lab - we’re hoping this was willingly….

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You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out why Google goes
after the mobile market. With an estimated global installed base of 4
billion mobile phones in 2008 and more than 1.2 billion cellphones sold
annually, the platform has a far greater reach than the 800 million
desktops and laptops estimated in use today. Greater use of mobile
search enables Google to expand its reach and serve more ads. With
mobile advertising spending predicted to grow to $19 billion by 2012
from about…

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