Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC), publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal (ELJ), is pleased to announce the second ELJ contest, based on the New Internet Computer (NIC). (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic Inc. announced today that it is partnering with Flash memory device manufacturer M-Systems in order to provide support for M-Systems' DiskOnChip Flash memory devices under REDSonic's real-time and embedded Linux OS. (more…)

Agenda Computing will demonstrate what is claimed to be “the world's first pure Linux PDA” at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco today (April 10). The demonstration of the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA will take place in the “Tux Theatre” area of the Embedded Linux Consortium's ESC booth (booth 101), at 2:30… (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — The Board of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) [today will propose the development of] a single unified specification for an embedded Linux platform to its 124 member companies. (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…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Motorola Computer Group today announced its strategy to provide Bluetooth wireless technology for the first time on embedded infrastructures running on a choice of three operating systems — Linux, VxWorks, and Windows 2000 — and two processor architectures — PowerPC and Intel. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. and Metrowerks today announced the shipment of the CodeWarrior for Embedix Development System for the PowerQUICC II MPC8260. The collaborative effort between Lineo and Metrowerks provides developers with a popular embedded Linux software development kit (Embedix) and IDE (CodeWarrior) combined with the Motorola MPC8260… (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced version 2.0 of its Hard Hat Linux operating system. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is the first embedded OS and tool kit based entirely on the latest Linux 2.4 kernel, and boasts unrivaled support for embedded processor architectures, CPU boards, and software components. (more…)

London, U.K. — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. and Trolltech AS have joined forces to create a comprehensive and integrated Embedded Linux platform. The new agreement combines Trolltech's Qt/Embedded development framework with MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux distribution in a comprehensive platform — operating system, development framework, and embedded windowing system — for embedded… (more…)

The Linux Standard Base group has been slow to produce a full specification, but it's worth the wait. (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — RealNetworks Inc. announced that its RealPlayer multimedia playing software will be deployed in Intel's Linux-based Dot.Station Web appliance. The Dot.Station is designed to let consumers take advantage of the most popular PC functions from the comfort of their favorite places around the home. (more…)

This week, embedded software market leader Wind River Systems announced that they are acquiring BSDi's software assets, which includes the BSD/OS operating system and some related software tools. (more…)

This week, embedded software market leader Wind River Systems announced that they are acquiring BSDi's software assets, which includes the BSD/OS operating system and some related software tools. This event is likely to have a major impact on the overall embedded software market, and is of particular interest to the nascent Embedded Linux Market. (more…)

CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports on the recently held Linux kernel summit. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Redmond, WA — (press release excerpt) — Conversay and Seoul-based PalmPalm Technology are collaborating to integrate Conversay's speech recognition software into PalmPalm's Tynux embedded Linux platform. (more…)