Hilton Head, S.C. — (press release) — Intel Corporation's Microprocessor Research Lab today announced that it is working with a group of computer vision technology researchers to release a new computer vision library and its source code. The computer vision library will provide a wide range of functions, including gesture recognition, object-tracking, face recognition and camera calibration, that will… (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release) — Intel Corporation announced today that it is delivering its Common Open Policy Service (COPS) network configuration software technology to the industry. This action will help accelerate the growth of e-business by making networks better managed for more reliable delivery of enhanced network services. (more…)

Mary Jo Foley and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, of ZDNet News, report on indications that SCO is preparing to enter the Linux market in a serious way. While SCO won't necessarily be a direct participant in the embedded Linux market space, the company certainly possesses the resources to quickly become a major Linux player, with far reaching implications to all Linux segments. (more…)

Red Hat has announced an agreement to purchase privately-held WireSpeed Communications Corporation (Huntsville, AL), for approximately 1.5M shares of Red Hat stock. WireSpeed, a developer of network and telecommunications software components for embedded systems, will be integrated into Red Hat's Client Services Group. (more…)

Lineo Industrial Solutions Group has released an open source Real-Time Common API that allows programmers to code to a common API when using either NMT RTLinux or DIPARM RTAI implementations of real-time Linux. The effort was undertaken subsequent to the Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Austria last December, in response to overwhelming sentiment at that conference in favor of a common real-time Linux… (more…)

Mary Jo Foley, of ZDNet News, writes about the growing trend among chipmakers to proactively support Linux. Foley spotlights recent Linux-related actions and announcements of Intel, HP, and AMD. Foley writes . . . (more…)

In the initial publication of “My Linux is smaller than your Linux”, there was an incorrect statement to the effect that uClinux does not provide multi-tasking capabilities due to lack of an MMU in the chips it supports. (That inaccuracy has now been corrected.) (more…)

Vancouver, BC — (press release) — LinuxWizardry Systems has awarded a contract to Lineo, Inc., to manufacture LinuxWizardry's new Apprentice Router incorporating LinuxWizardry's proprietary configuration software known as the “Apprentice Command Center”. Under the terms of the Agreement, Lineo will manufacture the hardware for the first version of Apprentice Router for LinuxWizardry. (more…)

The newly formed Lineo Industrial Solutions Group today signaled its intention to guide the destiny of the real-time Linux market, by announcing a proposed common API for real-time Linux. The new API is supposed to provide developers the ability to use a common real-time API for development under both RTLinux and RTAI, the two most widely-used distributions of real-time Linux. (more…)

Lineo Inc. today announced formation of the Lineo Industrial Solutions Group. The new Lineo unit, based primarily on the company's recent Zentropix acquisition, is chartered to focus on markets requiring real-time OS support, such as industrial control, military, and streaming media applications. (more…)

Mary Jo Foley, editor of ZDNet News, reports on IBM's continuing aggressive stance with respect to supporting Linux in a broad range of initiatives. Foley writes … (more…)

AMD and Lineo have announced a strategic relationship to provide developers with Linux solutions for Internet appliances and embedded devices. Under the agreement, the two companies will coordinate embedded Linux solutions for AMD's entire line of embedded 32-bit processors, using Embedix Linux from Lineo. (more…)

Bellevue, Wash. — (press release) — Microstar Laboratories, Inc., a maker of Data Acquisition Processor boards, today announced a new Linux driver for PCI DAP boards. This support compliments an existing Linux driver for the company's ISA bus products.

Microstar Laboratories produces a line of Data Acquisition Processor (DAP) boards, each with an onboard processor. (more…)

Richard Santalesa, of ZDNet Help & How-To, writes about the TiVo Personal TV Receiver, an innovative TV receiver appliance with embedded Linux inside. Santalesa writes . . . (more…)

Sometimes technologies converge to produce a whole that's decidedly greater than the sum of its parts. Bus-Tech's highly flexible Embedded Linux Controller achieves just such a synergy. The highly flexible network appliance device consists of a relatively simple PowerPC based single-board computer with four PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) expansion sockets, packaged in a 1U rackmount package, and powered by… (more…)