Richard Hart of CNET's News.com interviews Patrick Choi, marketing manager of PalmPalm Technology. In this online video interview, we see working prototypes of two new Korean mobile devices that combine cellphone and PDA capabilities. One is fairly large and features a full-color TFT LCD and high-end multimedia functions, while the other is truly cellphone-sized but integrates both normal cellphone… (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; Special to ZDNet . . .

Linux newcomers are becoming part of the mainstream effort to create software for non-PC “embedded” computing devices, as indicated by a host of trade show announcements. (more…)

Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — Mizi Research Inc. today introduced LINUETTE V1.0, a specialized Linux OS which provides enhanced multimedia capabilities tailored to the requirements of high-end PDAs and handheld PCs. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced the launch of TASTE, a suite of embedded Linux software for Internet appliances and network computing devices, such as WebPADs, TV set-top boxes, thin clients and screen phones. (more…)

CNET News.com's David Becker reports that Indrema, which hoped to carve a niche in the lucrative video game industry with a console based on the Linux operating system, announced Wednesday that it is going out of business. Becker writes . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced the submission of its hot swap infrastructure code to the Open Source Community. MontaVista is releasing the hot swap code as a project on Source Forge with two goals: to encourage a wide adoption of the base software, and… (more…)

San Francisco;Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. today announced the Lineo Embedix Board Development Kit (BDK). The Lineo Embedix BDK is a complete development environment for configuring, customizing and deploying Linux-based embedded solutions. Each BDK is tailored to a specific board used in various embedded devices. (more…)

According to the results of a subscriber study recently conducted by Embedded Systems Programming magazine, developer interest in using Embedded Linux appears to be growing at an astronomical pace. (more…)

This guest editorial by Jim March is based on the statement that he read at the annual meeting of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) in San Francisco, CA on April 9, 2001. In it, March expresses his concerns relative to using GPL software in embedded system applications, and urges the ELC to propose a revision to the GPL in order to mitigate those concerns. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Insignia today unveiled the Jeode platform for Linux, a PersonalJava-compatible implementation that provides complete AWT graphics capability for high-end embedded Linux-based devices through its use of the full X Window system graphical standard. (more…)

Hari Sreenivasan of CNET's News.com speaks with Ian LeWinter, chief strategy officer of Agenda Computing, about Agenda's new “pure Linux PDA” in this online interview. LeWinter discusses Agenda's plans to compete with Palm and Microsoft in the handheld computer market, and presents reasons why Agenda's open source Embedded Linux approach offers a superior solution for both developers and users. (more…)

John G. Spooner of ZDNet News reports on the latest system-on-chip news from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco . . . (more…)

Erik Andersen, BusyBox maintainer, writes . . .

I am very pleased to announce BusyBox 0.51 (a.k.a. “the rock-solid release”). Tarballs are already sitting on the ftp site waiting for you. Here is the announcement I just placed on the busybox web site:

BusyBox 0.51 (the “rock-solid release”) is now out there. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. announced today that it has opened an office in Silicon Valley to become the new Lineo Embedded Systems Center (LESC) focused on sales, marketing, and services functions under the direction of Richard Larsen, senior vice president of sales, marketing and services, Lineo Inc. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. and Trolltech AS today announced the deepening of the companies' current partnership to provide a comprehensive embedded Linux solution. The terms of the new agreement involve a new degree of cooperation between these two embedded Linux companies. (more…)