"Software coders are being asked to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the One Laptop Per Child XO project.
It's offering a laptop prize for teams, "who create new games during a three-day 'game jam' scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts," says the IDG News Service.
Japan's largest embedded conference of the year reportedly featured a growing number of Linux-related demonstrations, compared to previous years. Linux appears to be making inroads among Japanese consumer electronics vendors, and to be gradually taking marketshare away from iTron, long the top Japanese embedded operating system.
Sun will ship a "pre-integrated," GPL-licensable, Linux- and Java-based operating system software reference design for mobile phones, it announced at its JavaOne conference today in San Francisco. "JavaFX Mobile" targets multimedia-enabled phones, and is the first of several planned media-oriented JavaFX-branded stacks,
