Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat Inc. today announced that its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase program of up to 10% of outstanding common shares over the next twelve months. The program is effective immediately. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Philips Digital Networks and Lineo Inc. today announced a partnership to provide Philips' Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) middleware stack running on the Lineo Embedix Digital Media platform for digital TVs and set-top boxes. Lineo and Philips will jointly market, promote, and demonstrate the DVB-MHP-enhanced Linux-based platform to their combined customer… (more…)

News flash: [Updated Sept. 17, 2001] the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today asserted that the so-called RTLinux open patent license violates the GPL. (more…)

Reuters reports that Cambridge Silicon Radio, the world's leading manufacturer of Bluetooth chips for short-distance wireless networks, announced that it will have chips on sale below $5 by 2003. Quoting from the Reuters story . . . (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Team ASA Inc. today announced a major upgrade to its NPWR Linux engine. NPWR, the first single board computer (SBC) designed specifically for manufacturers and OEMs in the Network Attached Storage (NAS), RAID, and Personal Server marketplaces, is now available with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. (more…)

Venture Development Corporation (VDC) provided the following report from the Embedded Systems Conference held in Boston, MA last week . . . (more…)

Oslo, Norway — Trolltech is releasing version 1.4 of Qt Palmtop, a complete mobile computing platform for advanced embedded Linux devices. This release provides numerous improvements to the existing Qt Palmtop, including bug fixes, enhanced functionality, and a new user interface. (more…)

Issaquah, WA — (press release excerpt) — a new company, McObject LLC, is building data management technology to meet the unique needs of applications running within intelligent, connected devices. Founded by veteran developers who pioneered the first databases in set-top boxes, industrial automation, and other high-tech gear, McObject will ship its (more…)

OnCore Systems Corporation has announced the opening of an R&D facility in Ottawa, Canada. According to OnCore CEO Chip Downing, the primary focus of the new office will be to create custom ports of the company's OnCore OS (a proprietary microkernel), modular embedded Linux solutions, and VxWorks/pSOS APIs to various processor- and board-level hardware platforms. (more…)

Hannover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — the well known DIL/NetPC family by SSV Embedded Systems now has a new high-speed, networked RISC-based family member. The new DNP/1110 is based on a StrongARM SA1110 32-bit RISC system-on-chip processor and includes 32 MByte SDRAM and 8 MByte Flash memory and a built-in “fast” Ethernet interface. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — Despite the current slow economy, the future looks bright for the embedded systems industry. Recent research by Venture Development Corporation into the top consuming markets for embedded operating systems, development tools, and other software components shows that, while current market conditions are not strong, many key consuming industries and applications are… (more…)

linux.conf.au consists of a day of tutorials and three days of technical sessions concentrating on issues related to the development of Linux and other open systems. The conference takes place February 6-9, 2002 in Brisbane, Australia. (more…)

Tokyo, Japan — (press release excerpt) — Fujitsu Automation Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that they have jointly developed a new miniature humanoid robot, named HOAP-1 (Humanoid for Open Architecture Platform), designed for wide application in research and development of robotic technologies. (more…)

Foreword: This article introduces LinuxDevices.com's new series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of the most prominent Embedded Linux toolkits. In this kickoff to the series, Epplin provides some background on the Embedded Linux toolkit market, considers the relative advantages of commercial vs. (more…)

In this LinuxDevices.com special feature, software developer Jerry Epplin examines the most prominent Embedded Linux toolkits. In order to gain insight into the use of each toolkit from the developer's perspective, Epplin builds Embedded Linux OS images for three different x86-based EBX form-factor single board computers using each toolkit. (more…)