How open is Google's Android? That's a subject of long and sometimes bitter debates, but it is "open enough" for the Mountain View search giant to release the source code for v4.0 - the 'Ice Cream Sandwich' release, which aims to unify smartphone and tablet code bases. 
We can file this one - at a push - under open source engineering, even if - given this involves Microsoft - no Linux is involved.
Raspberry Pi is a tiny ARM-based single board computer that enables a TV to run Linux and scripting languages such as Python.
Here's another interesting one to flag from Gadget Master, involving open source hardware - Gameduino spritely takes centre stageNokia Qt Frameworks has set out its formal position in the wake of its parent company entering into a so-called "broad strategic partnership" with Microsoft to develop a new global smartphone ecosystem, writes Adrian Bridgwater.
After a series of keynotes and meetings with Nokia CTO Rich Green and Nokia's vice-president of application services and frameworks Sebastian Nyström, the official blog for the cross-platform application and GUI development framework confirms that, "Unequivocally, Qt is not dead - Qt will continue to live on through Symbian, MeeGo and the non-mobile Qt industries and platforms."
Linaro, the multi-supplier group optimising Linux tools for ARM platforms, received a boost at ARM Techcon in Santa Clara last week, writes Richard Wilson.
LiMo Foundation has joined the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) to encourage the development of mobile applications to run on the mobile Linux operating system, writes Richard Wilson.
A complete IP camera reference design and free Linux IP camera application software, with source code, is part of the package for Texas Instrument's new video processor, the DaVinci DMVA2.
Codename overload alert. Intel and Nokia are merging their respective Linux based systems, Moblin and Maemo, to create MeeGo. Read the full story."Our vision for seamlessly communicating between computing devices from the home, auto, office or your pocket is taking a big step forward today with the introduction of MeeGo," said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.
If anyone knows Linux kernel driver development, it's Greg Kroah-Hartman, who's been working deep in Linux for over a decade. In this interview, Greg talks about how the Linux project has accommodated the accelerating rate of change for the kernel, and offers some insight on where Linux is headed, writes the blog.
ARM launched its Android Solution Centre today, created as a resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open-source platform from the Open handset Alliance, writes David Manners.There has been increasing interest in developing for the Android platform. The Motorola Droid is the latest entrance into the smartphone-on-Android market and an explosion of Android phones and applications is expected.
Thanks to Dawn Foster, on the Intel Software Network, for flagging this one - a Linux Kernel Roundtable with Linus Torvalds, J.E.J. Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T'so, and Chris Wright.
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