Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Intel Corp. has acquired Opened Hand, a London-based company which specializes in mobile Linux development and services. "Opened Hand brings great expertise and technology in the area of ...

At the Intel Developer Forum last week, the Santa Clara company said that its upcoming Clover Trail Atom processor -- the dual-core version of Medfield that will debut with cheap Windows 8 laptops and ...

Eschewing its own SUSE Linux, Novell Inc. said today that it will back Intel Corp.’s Moblin Linux in the fast-growing market for netbooks and smartphones. Novell is creating a version of Moblin for ...

Intel on Wednesday unveiled the Centrino Atom family of low-power processors for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). It also announced a new class of inexpensive, simple Internet-centric computers, called ...