By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet News . . .

Hewlett-Packard will sell a secure version of Linux, a product that marks a departure for computer makers that traditionally have favored partnerships with companies such as Red Hat that sell Linux. (more…)

Century Embedded Technologies and National Semiconductor today announced the launch of Linux4.TV, a new website dedicated to the promotion and support of open source projects and application program… (more…)

I first heard about Embedded Linux last summer at an embedded Internet workshop. I was standing near the Embedded Linux Consortium's exhibit area, when John Lombardo introduced himself to me and asked if I had any suggestions for small off-the-shelf x86 systems that could be used as the basis of a Linux-based home router appliance he was developing. (more…)

Ieper, Belgium and Burlington, MA — (press release excerpt) — Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) Speech Products NV has announced the availability of the L&H RealSpeak Compact Software Development Kit (SDK). The new SDK, which supports Linux and Windows CE based systems, makes high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) technology available for a broad spectrum of electronic devices and vertical markets. (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release excerpt) — In response to growing global demand for IDG's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, the company today announced it will launch a new show in Ireland this November, followed by an expanded schedule of international 2002 event dates. LinuxWorld has become the premiere event for buyers and sellers, supporters, investors and enthusiasts of Linux and open source solutions. (more…)

According to a Reuters news item published by the Times of India, the low-cost, open-licensed handheld computer known as the Simputer is being readied for a November roll-out by its first manufacturer, Encore Software Ltd. Quoting from the Reuters story . . . (more…)

Patrick Mannion of EE Times reports that Bluetooth seems to be falling by the wayside, if presentations and comments at the IEEE Rawcon technical conference are any indication of support. Mannion writes . . . (more…)

ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe has issued the following call for papers for the Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference Summit, to be held in Milan, Italy on November 27-28 . . . (more…)

Lineo, Inc. today announced the closing of a strategic investment round of $20 million, bringing the overall investment total in Lineo to $57 million. According to a statement released by Lineo, the key participants in this round of financing were Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Ltd. (more…)

Embedded Linux is currently the third most popular embedded operating system — behind Wind River's VxWorks and Microsoft's MS-DOS — and may leap-frog into the #1 position as soon as next year, according to a new report on embedded software trends published last month by software market analyst Evans Data Corporation. (more…)

InfoWorld editor Ephraim Schwartz attended a demonstration of IBM's TechMobile at the IBM developer conference in San Francisco this week, and reports on some of the cutting-edge technologies that are included in the futuristic IBM demo. The TechMobile, as reported previously, contains a Linux/Java embedded software… (more…)

CNET News.com's Richard Hart interviews Red Hat Chairman Bob Young about the history of Linux, in this interesting online video. Young reflects on the growth and evolution of Linux over the past decade, and explains why he believes open source software provides the best software business model. (Length: approx. 6 minutes) (more…)

By Sandeep Junnarkar and Ian Fried; special to ZDNet News . . .

Palm announced on Thursday that it is acquiring the technology assets and intellectual property of software maker Be for $11 million in stock, in a move aimed at strengthening its operating system to compete against Microsoft. (more…)

The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KDevelop 2.0 as part of the release of KDE 2.2. KDevelop is the leading Linux/UNIX integrated development environment (IDE) for C/C++ development. KDevelop provides professional programs with powerful tools for rapid development and design of sophisticated C/C++ applications. (more…)

By Paul Festa; special to ZDNet News . . .

The goal of making the Web act more like television has inched closer to reality with the revision of a key multimedia standard. (more…)