Stories about: UMTS

Xandros recently released a version of its desktop Linux software aimed at the European market, tying in some of the advanced and emerging mobility services that are being developed and deployed in that region. If you support end-users who travel to Europe, and want a Linux laptop, this could be the right system.

Qualcomm is going to support Linux in its next-generation mobile phone chips - a move that could boost the spread of handsets with high-end computing features.

Nortel Networks Chief Technology Officer Brian McFadden, who has worked at the Brampton, Ontario-based networking equipment provider for 25 years, spoke this week about the coming technologies in networking for 2005 -- and about Nortel's role in them. In his conversation with Computerworld senior writer Matt Hamblen, McFadden predicted that wireless technology will be a newsmaker and said innovative consumer products could quickly find their way into the corporate world.

The 3G Partnership Project - a consortium of 200 wireless vendors and operators - has begun a study to determine the feasibility of defining a standard that supports wireless downlink speeds as high as 100Mbps.

It's a big break for upstart Web browser maker Opera Software A/S: the company's software will go into a new generation of digital set-topboxes for Internet surfing via television sets.