NetGear announced a new family of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, touting faster performance and support for streaming to TiVo digital video recorders (DVRs) via Skifta technology. The ReadyNAS Ultras are available with four or six storage bays, offer single- or dual-core Intel Atom & Pineview& processors, and integrate Orb technology for transcoding content to remote devices, the company says....

Investors might be jittery about the economy, but Intel doesn't appear to be, reporting glowing results for the second quarter of its 2010 financial year. & Strong demand ... helped Intel achieve the best quarter in the company's 42-year history,& said Paul Otellini, the company's president and CEO....

VXL announced two portable thin clients designed in conjunction with Lenovo. The 11.6-inch Itona TL100 includes a 1.0GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, while the 14.1-inch Itona TL412 has a dual-core, 1.86GHz Intel Celeron processor, the company says....

Team Tiny Core announced the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its small-footprint, in-memory Linux desktop distribution. Tiny Core 3.0 RC1 moves up to Linux 2.6.33.3, is available with an optional 64-bit kernel, includes the Ext4 file-system, and offers improvements to virtualization and the & compressed swap in RAM& feature, says the project....

Spotify yesterday released a preview of its peer-to-peer (P2P) music application for desktop Linux, packaged as a Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 10.04 package. The software shares most of its music sharing with the Windows and Mac OS X versions of Spotify, but currently lacks support for local audio files and is available only for Spotify Premium customers....

Wind River announced the availability of an automated software testing solution for Android-based devices. Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) for Android helps analyze a device's functionality, performance, and stability, and also checks compliance with the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) standard, the company says....

Aaeon announced a four-port network appliance that supports Intel Pentium M and Celeron M processors plus a 2.5-inch internal hard disk drive. The FWS-2300 has four gigabit Ethernet ports with two-port LAN bypass, an RS232 console port, VGA output, two each of USB 2.0 and serial ports, plus both CompactFlash and Mini PCI expansion, the company says....

GamePark Holdings (GPH) is readying a new version of its GP2X handheld game console running open source Linux games. The & GP2X Caanoo& is equipped with a 533MHz ARM9 CPU and 3D-ready GPU, a 3.5-inch display, Wi-Fi, and an accelerometer with a vibration motor....

Google Labs released a beta version of an education-focused, GUI-based software tool designed to let non-programmers develop Android applications. The App Inventor beta offers drag-and-drop visual programming tools for creating apps that can integrate social networking sites, make use of sensor data and speech interfaces, and grade quiz responses, says Google....

Wind River announced that an upcoming, security-hardened version of its commercial embedded operating system, Wind River Linux Secure, is being evaluated by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification. In addition, Wind River Linux Secure has been accepted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a cryptographic module for evaluation to the FIPS 140-2 standard, says the company....

E-con Systems has announced a five-megapixel camera add-on designed to work with Linux and the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM). The e-CAM50_OMAP35x snaps onto the EVM board and connects to the OMAP35x's high-speed CMOS sensor interface, providing 720p video capture as well as stills, the company says....

Blue Water Embedded announced a royalty-free graphical user interface (GUI) development framework for embedded devices, including those running Linux. The Prism Runtime Framework is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that incorporates Prism Micro, a GUI toolkit for constrained color-depth targets, and Prism Insight, a Linux-compatible desktop GUI design and resource editing tool, says the company....

Emerson Network Power is shipping what it claims are the first COM Express modules based on Freescale Semiconductor's multicore, PowerPC-based QorIQ processors. The COMX-P2020 and COMX-P4080 employ dual-core QorIQ P2020 and eight-core QorIQ P4080 system-on-chips, respectively, offering both a wide variety of interfaces and Linux BSPs, says the company....

Habey announced a fanless, Intel Atom-based industrial computer that sports sixteen serial ports. The BIS-6640 accepts up to 2GB of RAM, has room for a 2.5-inch hard disk drive and a CompactFlash slot, and includes six USB 2.0 ports as well as a parallel port, the company says....

Reprieved from its financial troubles with fresh investments, Mandriva released the final version of Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. The latest stable release is touted for offering faster boot times, enhanced & Smart Desktop& file-organization technology, easier printer and wireless configuration, new scientific apps, plus updates including GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3, and the new Go-OO branch of OpenOffice....

Android has continued to gain smartphone OS market share this spring, gaining four percentage points from February through May to take 13 percent of the market, says ComScore. Meanwhile, a recent Pew report shows that 40 percent of Americans are now using mobile phone Internet services, up from 32 percent in 2009....

eWEEK has run two favorable reviews of the Motorola Droid X, praising the phone's multimedia performance, call quality, battery life, and camera, but criticizing its Wi-Fi performance and MotoBlur interface. A Wired review, meanwhile, calls the Droid X & one of the finest Android devices available& -- if one can handle the size....

Sprint announced a Samsung handset running Android 2.1 that sells for $100 with a two-year contract. The Samsung Intercept is equipped with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and an optical joystick, says the company....

NetLogic Microsystems announced a Linux-based hardware/software development kit it says is the first fully deterministic networking solution that concurrently processes Layers 2-7 at 40Gbps wire-speed. The NLX321103A solution combines the MIPS-based XLP832 eight-core, 32-threaded system-on-chip with the NL11k and NETL7 Layer 7 & knowledge-based& processors, the company says....

Mozilla announced version 1.1 of Firefox Mobile & Fennec,& debuting on Maemo Linux, while also releasing a beta of the Firefox 4.0 desktop browser. Meanwhile, Intel and Aava Mobile released images of the Aava phone reference design running an early version of MeeGo 1.1 for Handsets, and Movial announced Flash 10.1 integration services for MeeGo and Android....