Android 1.5 ("Cupcake") goes PowerPC

http://www.mentor.com/products/embedded_software/news/android-embedded-linux

DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC), San Francisco, Calif. July 30, 2009 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today unveiled its Android and Linux strategy, including the acquisition of Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc. (San Jose, CA), an innovative leader in Android and Linux development systems.

In separate announcements today, Mentor Graphics revealed support for the ARM Mali graphics processing unit family, Freescale Power Architecture processors and Marvell Sheeva MV78200 Dual-core Embedded Processors. Embedded Alley was the first to market commercial Android tools and services in May 2009, for the RMI Au1250 SoC and the MIPS architecture.

BDSM

Whenever I try to use the BDSM abbreviation (not really often though ;)

I want to say BSDM each time.

Yeah, I'm helpless UNIXoid: "Berkeley Software Distribution" - Maso

Red Hat to join S&P 500

http://www.newsobserver.com/business/v-print/story/1612209.html

The financial turmoil that keeps claiming victims on Wall Street has created an opening for Raleigh-based Red Hat.

The software maker will replace floundering CIT Group in the iconic Standard & Poor's 500 Index next week. In addition to the cachet the move gives Red Hat, companies added to the S&P 500 typically rally as investors who track the index buy shares.

Red Hat's stock has climbed more than 50 percent so far this year on investor optimism that its cheaper Linux computer-operating software is winning customers during the downturn. On Friday, the stock closed at $20.60, down 26 cents, but it jumped as much as 10 percent in late trading after the S&P announcement.

The change will be made after the close of trading July 24.

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U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS

http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-foss

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol and had to be converted for Linux -- a less expensive option than rewriting it altogether.

The migration is a part of a larger plan to standardize on open source software to lower operating costs and increase the number of transactions the system can handle. The USPS currently manages over 40 million transactions every day, from tracking priority mail to shipping packages for customers at local post offices.

Though the USPS won't discuss exact figures on how the cost savings of moving from a Sun Solaris environment to Hewlett-Packard, it's clearly substantial.

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Intel reportedly in talks with Google on Android-based MIDs

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article_print.asp?datePublish=2009/07/10&pages=PD&seq=205

Intel is reportedly in talks with Google to support the Android platform on Intel-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs), according to sources from Taiwan-based MID makers.

Intel commented that its strategy is to be the hardware platform of choice across a range of operating systems, and to facilitate the development of an ecosystem which can benefit the industry as a whole and ultimately end-users.

Android-based MIDs are unlikely to appear before Intel's next generation MID platform Moorestown shows up, the sources noted.

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