Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — an inside look at today's top PC processors and an in-depth look into information appliances are the subjects of two half-day Microprocessor Report seminars to be presented March 15 in Santa Clara, California by MicroDesign Resources (MDR), publishers of Microprocessor Report. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release exerpt) — Rappore Technologies, Inc. and LynuxWorks, Inc. announced today that they have ported Rappore's Bluetooth technology to LynuxWorks's BlueCat embedded Linux. Furthermore, Rappore has joined the LynuxWorks SynergyWorks alliance program and is the first Bluetooth technology company to join. (more…)

Peter Clarke reports in EE Times that momentum is slowly building for freely available open-source processors, the semiconductor market's equivalent of open-source software. Clarke writes . . . (more…)

The following “letter to the editor” from Compaq's Western Research Laboratory relates to the recent announcement by ADS claiming the first sleep mode support for the StrongARM processor . . . (more…)

During LinuxWorld in New York City this past week, a new version of Bayonne, the telephony application server of the GNU project, demonstrated web integrated call center functionality supporting Intel/Dialogic telephony hardware and the GNU/Linux Dialogic SDK. This new version is now available for immediate download from
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Henry Kingman, senior producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, attended a session at LinuxWorld Expo in New York and filed this report . . . (more…)

Big Mouth Billy Bass as a webcam? This and 99 other projects have been announced as finalists in Embedded Linux Journal's “Win an MZ104 — Embedded Linux Design Contest”. The contest is based on products by Tri-M, ZF Micro Devices, BlueCat, and M-Systems. (more…)

Henry Kingman, senior producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, attended a session at LinuxWorld Expo in New York and filed this report . . . (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Adaptec, Inc. today launched a new program to educate and support the Linux community, promote the release of new open-source drivers, and enable developers to create and share new drivers for Adaptec controllers. Adaptec has provided RAID and SCSI driver support to the Linux community for several years, but, for the first time, is now having its RAID… (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Insignia Solutions announced today that it will offer its accelerated, Java-compatible Jeode Embedded Virtual Machine (EVM) technologies to design engineers and Linux programming developers on DevelopOnline.com, an online development center designed to accelerate product time to market. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Metrowerks announced an enhancement to its CodeWarrior software development tools for the Linux operating system with new functionality to help Linux programmers increase their productivity and decrease their speed to market, including full Java support, native debugging, and concurrent and distributed compiling. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — RidgeRun, Inc. announced today that it is partnering with DevelopOnline to offer RidgeRun's DSPLinux SDK, based on Texas Instruments' TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor (DSP), through DevelopOnline's Web-based open platform development site. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — At LinuxWorld today, RidgeRun, Inc., announced their Open Multimedia Interface (OMI), an API and multimedia plug-in for Linux. With OMI, Linux software developers now have an easy way to integrate multimedia functionality into applications and games. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Lightning, a manufacturer of secure Internet access gateways, today announced its contribution to the open source community: The company's Linux distribution is based on the very latest Linux kernel 2.4 and is used for advanced routing and gateway functionality. (more…)

Augsburg, Germany and Bloomfield, New Jersey — (press release excerpt) — Tuxia today announced a close partnership with National Semicondoctor whereby Tuxia's Linux-based TASTE operating system will supports National's Geode system-on-chip processors and reference platforms. The partnership will enable the development of Linux-based information appliances, such as personal access devices, television… (more…)