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 ...

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 ...

Compact computer maker Shuttle has been offering Linux desktops for a while, as well as barebones systems with no operating system at all. So maybe it should come as no surprise that the company’s ...