Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Transmeta Corporation today announced that it has “open sourced” its Mobile Linux operating system, known as Midori Linux, to allow industry-wide input for its further development. (more…)

Exhibitors from the world of academia and leading technology research departments unveiled their latest inventions this week at the ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace conference in San Jose, CA. CNET News.com's senior correspondent Hari Sreenivasan visited the conference to get a peek at the products of the future, and brought back these two particularly interesting video clips of devices that contain… (more…)

Poway, CA — (press release excerpt) — the technical program for the Applied Computing Conference is now up on the web. Visit the conference website and check out the latest sessions and tutorials offered at this year's Applied Computing Conference & Expo:

The Applied Computing Conference & Expo 2001
May 14-17, 2001
Santa Clara… (more…)

San Jose, CA — The Free Standards Group today announced the release of the first major update to the Linux Development Platform Specification, LDPS. The LDPS allows portability in application development to all generally available Linux distributions. By using the LDPS, developers will be able to create and distribute software more quickly across the spectrum of Linux distributions, including Caldera… (more…)

Hanover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Trolltech and Lisa Systems today announced a comprehensive Linux solution for the Compaq iPAQ palmtop computer, which will be demonstrated at CeBit. The solution includes: the Compaq iPAQ; an embedded Linux operating system; Trolltech's Qt/Embedded GUI application framework and windowing system; Trolltech's Qt Palmtop Environment, which includes personal… (more…)

MontaVista Software's Hard Hat Linux is being used by ITT Industries to enhance the capabilities and effectiveness of a handheld radio communications system for soldiers. ITT is the lead contractor on a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project to build a “soldiers radio.” The beta version of the radio unit, which is based on multiple StrongARM processors, is expected to be completed… (more…)

Agenda Computing plans to be the first company in the world to launch a “pure Linux PDA”, through an April 3, 2001 launch of its VR3 PDA at Comdex Chicago. The VR3 belongs to a new class of PDAs that will compete with Palm's immensely popular products by offering higher performance processors and more sophisticated… (more…)

In this article, John Lombardo reviews the Axis 2120 Network Camera, an intelligent network-ready camera with a built-in 100 MHz RISC microprocessor running an embedded Linux operating system. A brief overview of the features of the Axis 2120 is available here. (more…)

In this article, John Lombardo reviews the Axis 2120 Network Camera, an intelligent network-ready camera with a built-in 100 MHz RISC microprocessor running an embedded Linux operating system. Lombardo writes . . . (more…)

Join your colleagues in beautiful San Diego April 30-May 3, 2001 for a 4 day hands on Embedded Linux training program designed to “jump start” your development efforts. There are only a few seats left for this exciting class, so call today to speak with an advisor: John Downing, TrainingCity, 858-755-8868; or Leah Taymayo, UCSD, 858-622-5762. (more…)

Taipei, Taiwan – (press release excerpt) – Esfia today announced a new but stable software architecture for Linux based PDAs. The Esfia RedBlue/Palmlike Environment is a complete Window system that includes Esfia Palmlike Window Launcher, X server, FLTK GUI toolkit, and a collection of useful applications, all written using the standard X API. (more…)

Will Knight of ZDNet UK writes . . .

Hardware giant Intel, which has thrown its considerable weight behind the Linux operating system in recent months, said Tuesday that it is looking at creating of a European Linux research laboratory. (more…)

Helsinki, Finland — (press release excerpt) — the Kannel 1.0.2 WAP gateway has received the official WAP 1.1 certification by WAP Forum, the international organisation overseeing the development and interoperability of the WAP specification suite. This certification makes Kannel the world's first Open Source WAP… (more…)

Palo Alto, CA and Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Hewlett-Packard Company and RealNetworks Inc. have announced a collaboration to develop a family of easy-to-use digital entertainment products designed to enable consumers to download, personalize, and enjoy their favorite music, streaming video, and other digital content from the comfort of their living rooms. (more…)

Los Angeles, CA — (press release excerpt) — Bluepoint Linux Software today announced that it has signed an agreement with Great Wall Computer (Shenzhen, China). Bluepoint will provide customized Bluepoint's Embedded [Linux] Operating System and related application software for Great Wall PDA products (called “Palm Sized PCs” by Great Wall). (more…)