This article, by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum, provides a detailed “sneak preview” of Screen Media's soon-to-be-released FreePad — including its features, functions, and internal hardware/software — and also examines the background and motivations of the company that is bringing the FreePad to market, including Screen Media's reasons for selecting Linux and philosophy with respect to open source… (more…)

(announcement) — The Embedded Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the first of a series of DEVELOPMENT releases of CML2+OS, a system for the configuration and generation of both a Linux kernel *AND* an operating system (i.e. root filesystem). CML2+OS is being designed to assist embedded Linux developers in configuring and generating small (1 to 10MB) Linux target systems. (more…)

(press release) — elc technologies has just released PiranhaWAP, an open source WAP/WML-enabled server status reporting product. PiranhaWAP allows displaying real-time system information such as uptime, load average, and memory information on WAP/WML-enabled devices such as cellular phones and PDAs. (more…)

In a few months, Screen Media will begin shipping a sleekly designed, easy-to-use wireless web-pad device called the FreePad. Like Ericsson's Screen Phone, the FreePad will offer web browsing and cordless telephone functions. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — – LinkUp Systems Corp., providers of system-on-chip processor plus peripherals solutions for the Internet appliance and consumer electronics market, and PalmPalm Technology, a leader in embedded Linux, today announced that the LinkUp L7200 system development board will support PalmPalm's Tynux Linux-based operating system. (more…)

Mark Hachman, writing at TechWeb News, reports that S3 has established an internal subsidiary to develop and sell Crusoe-based Internet Appliances. The product line appears likely to include an Embedded Linux based web pad. Hachman writes . . . (more…)

Los Angeles, CA — (press release) — Bluepoint Linux Software presented its strategy for embedded Linux and Information Appliance product development at its Year 2000 New Product Release Conference, held last week in the Friendship Hotel in Beijing. Mr. Yu Deng, president of Bluepoint, spoke about Bluepoint Embedded Linux and its applications in the Information Appliance market. (more…)

Linux Journal has “gone embedded” in a big way, for its September issue! The special Embedded Linux issue contains numerous articles on a wide range of embedded Linux applications and issues. (more…)

You're invited to participate in the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum in San Jose in February 2001. This two-day meeting is designed to bring together leading vendors of Real-time and Embedded Systems with corporate and government customers. (more…)

Reuters reports on Microsoft's development of Solo2, a powerful new chip to run its WebTV interactive television service . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — 5NINE, a developer of Wireless Data Infrastructure (WIS/I) technology for Linux, has announced the launch of WMLBrowser.org, an open source development project for creating a Wireless Markup Language (WML) Browser to work with all types of Linux environments. (more…)

San Francisco — (press release) — ZDNet, which operates the leading network of Web sites for people who want to buy, use and learn about technology, today announced that it has acquired Linux Hardware Database (www.linhardware.com), the leading Linux hardware support resource, from Cambridge, MA based DataPower Technology, Inc. (more…)

ZDNet's John Spooner reports that Intel executives kicked off the Intel Developer Forum, earlier this week, with a 2GHz Pentium 4 demo — and a charge to developers to work together to create standard building blocks for the Net. One of the demonstrations, of a high reliability server, made use of Linux running on an Itanium server cluster. (more…)

This 13 minute interview with MontaVista Founder and CEO, Jim Ready, was conducted from the Intel Developer Forum earlier today, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. RadioWallStreet's Francis Gaskins asks Ready to provide a general overview of the Embedded Linux Market, to talk about MontaVista's products, services, and applications, and to comment on his company's market position relative… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LinkUp Systems Corporation today announced that it has joined the ARM Partnership and licensed the ARM720T CPU core from ARM a leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. LinkUp will embed the ARM720T core in its next generation of system-on-chip (SOC) solutions targeted at the fast-growing Internet and mobile markets. (more…)