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Kontron announced two rugged 6U CompactPCI compliant with PICMG 2.16, based on Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Intel Core i7 processors. The air-cooled Kontron CP6003-RA and even more rugged, conduction-cooled Kontron CP6003-RC, support up to 16GB of soldered DDR3 and up to 32GB of ruggedized NAND flash memory, and offer a wide range of I/O from gigabit Ethernet to HDMI....

Aaeon announced a COM Express Type 2 computer on module (COM) equipped with an Intel Atom D525 processor and an optional wide DC input range. The COM-LN Rev.B supports up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, provides a PCI interface and five PCI Express interfaces, and features gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, PATA, and SATA connections, according to the company....

Samsung plans to combine the emerging MeeGo Linux-based Tizen operating system with its own home-grown Bada OS for feature phones, a Samsung executive told Forbes. This year, however, it appears the platforms will stay separate -- as many as two Samsung devices will likely ship with the HTML5-focused Tizen this year, says the report....

Google is planning a new version of Google TV that will integrate personalized recommendations based on user preferences, says a report. Meanwhile, Google TV 2.0 received a review from DeviceGuru, which praised the Android 3.1-based interface and Chrome browser, but dinged the poor Flash performance and continuing lack of Android apps....

On Sunday morning there were a number of video-related commits to Mesa for H.264 Gallium3D by AMD's Christian König...

VMware's overhauled Linux graphics driver stack is shaping up and coming together nicely in time for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which will allow for 2D/3D guest acceleration within virtualized guest machines...

There's just one week left until the SCALE 10x open-source Linux event takes place in Los Angeles...

Intel announced the fifth generation of its reference platform for education-focused portable PCs. The Classmate now features a dual-core Atom N2600 processor, delivering battery life of up to 12 hours, plus optional capacitive multitouch functionality, according to the company....

Armed with a Laptop and Six Digital Cameras, an Amateur Astronomer Created a 5,000-Megapixel Panorama of the Universe from Tens of Thousands of Digital Images.

Intel and Motorola announced a multi-year agreement focused on the development of Atom-powered, Android-based phones and tablets. Meanwhile, Intel showed off an smartphone reference platform and a Lenovo K800 handset that both run Android on the & Medfield& processor -- now unveiled as the Atom Z2460 -- and third-party benchmarks rated the CPU high marks in performance and power consumption....

While Mesa 8.0 has a lot to like about it from advertised OpenGL 3.0 support to performance improvements and new Gallium3D features, there are also several shortcomings of this major Mesa release for open-source graphics drivers...

LinuxSecurity.com: Medusa was created by the fine folks at foofus.net, in fact the much awaited Medusa 2.0 update was released in February of 2010. For a complete change log please visit http://www.foofus.net/jmk/medusa/changelog

First new Linux kernel release, Linux on TVs and Mandriva on the brink.

The Tizen Linux project, which is backed by Intel, Samsung, and others, have released some initial code and other information in time for CES 2012...

AT T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint announced a bevy of Android smartphones -- and a few tablets -- on the first day of this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Highlights include the Sony Xperia Ion phone at AT T, the Motorola Droid 4 and Razr Maxx on Verizon, and Sprint's first LTE phones: the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and LG Viper....

Smartphone, TV, web code-jockey play AT&T – one of America's largest internet, phone and TV service providers – is throwing up an open-source cloud running OpenStack to court application developers.…

As mobile devices become a major development platform, scripting languages are beginning to fall out of favor.

A few months ago, the British journal Sociology published an article titled "Challenging Code: A Sociological Reading of the KDE Free Software Project". Eager to find out what a 'sociological reading' of KDE entails, Dot editor Oriol Mirosa rushed to contact the article's author, sociologist Brian Alleyne, who graciously and patiently agreed to be the subject of an interview. Read on to learn more about Brian, sociology, and the significance of KDE for the social sciences: read more

Not content with shipping the world first quad-core Android tablet, Asus is now showing two more Nvidia Tegra 3 models at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). They're the seven-inch Eee Pad MeMo ME370T -- which will reportedly sell for just $250 -- and the Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T, with enhanced wireless performance and a 10.1-inch display that packs an impressive 1920 x 1200 pixels....

Imagination Technologies -- a key supplier of graphics processing unit (GPU) cores to most ARM licensees as well as to Intel -- says its new Powervr Series 6 version will boost performance by a factor of at least 20. The & Rogue& architecture is initially licensable in G6200 and G6400 versions, which respectively feature two and four compute clusters, according to the company....