Startup Locks Down Mobile Linux
— Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, Dark Reading

JULY 26, 2007 | A Linux startup today will officially launch a new, secure version of its operating system for mobile phones.
A la Mobile's Convergent Linux Platform (CLP) comes with anti-malware, device-level tamper protection, application sandboxing, and encrypted file system features.
"One of the unique things we're doing is [adding] a root of trust in the device, so that every piece of software must be verified before it executes," says Dirk Sigurdson, senior software engineer at a la Mobile.
While Symbian and Windows today dominate the mobile handset market, Linux is emerging as an alternative: According to ABI Research , around 204 million mobile phones will run on Linux by 2010.... More

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