Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Filanet Corporation announced the availability of a software development kit (SDK) for the company's InterJak family of Internet service appliances. (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Team ASA Inc. today announced NPWR, the first single board computer (SBC) designed for manufacturers and OEMs in the Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID, and Personal Server marketplaces. Npwr is powered by the Intel Xscale processor, a RISC CPU with clock rates reaching as high as 733 MHz. (more…)

NEWS FLASH! In a press conference today, Compaq announced an application contest for Linux-based handheld devices for the purpose of “[driving] development and adoption of Linux applications on handheld devices such as the Compaq iPAQ.” Five finalists and one grand prize winner will be announced at LinuxWorld in August 2001. (more…)

Socorro, NM; Tokyo, Japan — (press release excerpt) — Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) and A&A Linux Corporation, a Japanese embedded Linux firm, have announced a real-time Linux joint development agreement. The two firms simultaneously announced a sales and distribution agreement for RTLinux within the… (more…)

Jane Wakefield of ZDNet UK writes . . .

As if the mobile industry didn't have enough woes, another threat is looming on the horizon from the cyber labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)

Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal contends that Microsoft Corp., even while mounting a new campaign against open-source software, has quietly been using such free computer code in several major products, as well as on key portions of a popular Web site — despite denying last week that it did so. Gomes writes . . . (more…)

Richard Shim of ZDNet News reports that a report to be released today by research firm Gartner predicts that Compaq Computer will topple Palm from the top spot in revenue from handheld devices. Shim writes . . . (more…)

Ben Charny of ZDNet News reports that IBM will today announce plans to offer for the first time instant messaging for wireless devices. Charny writes . . . (more…)

The following whitepaper summarizing the results of Venture Development Corporation's recently completed Embedded Linux market study is reproduced here with VDC's permission, as a service to the Embedded Linux community . . . (more…)

By John Borland; special to ZDNet . . .

Just a few days after the world got its first look at the updated MP3 music format, rival open-source format Ogg Vorbis is ready to reveal a major facelift. (more…)

Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt) — Viosoft announced a new Embedded Linux integrated development environment (IDE) for the Intel StrongARM SA-1110 development environment. The Arriba! Embedded Linux Kernel Edition IDE is a fully integrated source-level kernel debugger for configuring, customizing, developing, and deploying Linux-based embedded software solutions. (more…)

Beijing, China — (press release excerpt) — Red Flag Linux and Trolltech AS have signed an agreement that will result in the creation of a complete, stable, and predictable Embedded Linux platform for the growing number of handheld device manufacturers in China. (more…)

Stephen Balacco, a senior analyst at Venture Development Corporation (VDC), has written a whitepaper entitled Linux's Future in the Embedded Market which summarizes the results of VDC's recently completed Embedded Linux market study. The whitepaper provides a market overview (including annual revenue projections) and discusses the future of Linux in the embedded market. (more…)

Zaltbommel, Netherlands — (press release excerpt) — ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe today announced the call for papers for its first Embedded Linux Expo & Conference Europe (ELEC) scheduled for Monday November 26th to Thursday November 29th, 2001. The event is scheduled to take place in Milan, Italy. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems today announced completion of a port of NetBSD to IBM's PowerPC 405GP processor. The IBM PowerPC 405GP is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) system-on-a-chip (SOC) product that features an integrated PowerPC embedded processor core with a rich… (more…)