The unlocked phone has no brand except for the name bPhone and sports ARM Linux 2.6 on Marvell’s ARM/XScale PXA320 processor.But you might have a good reason to have some interest in this feature packed gadget.

IBM has devised a new device in collaboration with eMeter which is based on a smart grid. This device has been developed under their smarter planet strategy. This technology helps in intelligent power management of the house and is available to the public.

Ubiquitous Corp, a Tokyo based company has claimed a boot time on one second. This technology which they are calling QuickBoot can boot any Linux of Android in one second and has a wide implementation.

Microsoft is testing a microblogging platform called OfficeTalk which is presumed to appeal to the business and enterprise world. The tests and the project hosting is being managed at Office Labs which is Microsoft’s innovation lab.

TurboHercules, a French firm dealing in Open Source Mainframe software has filed its antitrust complaint on IBM which is the third one in the line for IBM.

IBM is teaming up with educational institutions in India and Japan to create an open mobile user interface (UI) which will be common across all devices and will be much more user friendly.

The FSF recently announced its annual Advancement of Free Software award to John Gilmore. John Gilmore was the co-founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and one of the first employees at Sun.

The third National Free Software Conference was held at Bangalore and was attended by 1500 participants from all over the country.

RIM( Research in Motion) has recently launched Blackberry Storm2, the latest version of it’s smartphone product.

IBM has announced Develothon 2010, a program which aims to develop awareness amongst the software engineers in India regarding newer technologies.

National Instruments, which is a graphical systems design provider has launched a website to promote it’s non-profit activities in India. The website serves the purpose of meeting the needs of educational institutes and serves as a communication tool.

The Mozilla Firefox Alpha 3 developer preview was released on the 17th of March. The developer preview 1.9.3 Alpha which is available for testing has the latest Gecko layout engine.

CyanogenMOD claims an improved performance in all aspects and is built upon all the best features of Android. The new version has a huge list of changes.

World’s first Android powered car, the Roewe 350 is coming soon. The car is manufactured by Roewe which is a Chinese company and the unit of the car powered by Android version 2.1 is the GPS device.

Work has begun to port the Mono implementation of Microsoft’s c#.NET to Android. The Android version named MonoDroid should be expected by August this year.