San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — NewMonics, Inc. today announced the appointment of David E. McCrabb as the company's Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining NewMonics, Mr. McCrabb served as President of Santa Cruz Operations (SCO), leading the company in its successful bid to become a top provider of Linux and UNIX operating systems for Intel hardware. (more…)

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LinuxDevices.com is pleased to announce an update to our highly popular Embedded Linux “Cool Devices” Quick Reference Guide. The guide provides a continually updated catalog of end products in which Linux serves as the embedded operating system, including webpads, cell phones, set-top boxes,… (more…)

This whitepaper by Greg Haerr (CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows and ViewML projects) provides an introduction to the use of Linux as an embedded operating system. Haerr reviews the benefits of Linux to embedded applications, explains the basics of graphical windowing system technologies, and provides a technical and architectural overview of both Microwindows (a windowing system… (more…)

An article at SlashDot reports that Wind River Systems (WRS), who had acquired BSDi's software assets earlier this year, including a team of FreeBSD developers, has laid off those developers and decided to divest itself of the FreeBSD project. (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — next Monday, Century Embedded Technologies will roll out PIXIL Thin Client, a new Linux-based thin client software package that is said to offer PC-like capabilities in small footprint, resource-constrained devices. (more…)

This whitepaper by Greg Haerr (CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows and ViewML projects) provides an introduction to the use of Linux as an embedded operating system. Haerr reviews the benefits of Linux to embedded applications, explains the basics of graphical windowing system technologies, and provides a technical and architectural overview of both Microwindows (a windowing system for… (more…)

San Clemente, CA — (press release excerpt) — The RTC Group today announced its Embedded Linux Expo & Conference's high caliber program addressing how Linux challenges the established order in the embedded software market. The single-day event is being held November 8, 2001 at the Sheraton Reston Hotel in Reston, VA (near Washington D.C.) and is open to the public. (more…)

W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, recently released a Patent Policy Framework draft which provides for two forms of patent licensing that may be mandated by web standards: either RF for Royalty-Free, and RAND which stands for Reasonable… (more…)

Houston, TX; Palo Alto, CA; Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — Compaq Computer Corporation, Sun Microsystems, and Insignia Solutions jointly announced today that Compaq is set to ship Java technology, in the form of Insignia's Jeode PDA Edition, on every unit of Compaq's new iPAQ Pocket PC H3800 handheld computer. (more…)

Ian Fried and Richard Shim of CNET News.com report Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will launch a new version of the Pocket PC operating system at a San Francisco event today, joined by handheld makers and, yes, developers, developers, developers. (more…)

HomeRF-based wireless networking technology, which is playing catch-up with archrival 802.11b standard, moved a key step forward with the announcement of the first shipping products to match 802.11b's 10 Mbps speed, according to Yardena Arar, writing at PCWorld.com. Arar writes . . . (more…)

Scotts Valley, CA — (press release excerpt) — Seagate Technology today announced the addition of Linux OS supports to its SeaTools Enterprise Edition system diagnostic software. Seagate's Enterprise Edition is part of the SeaTools Suite, a group of user-invoked diagnostic applications that provide quick, easy and accurate diagnosis of hard drives within a system. (more…)

In this entertaining online article from Linux Journal magazine, John D. Biggs relates his adventure with getting his iPAQ running again after accidentally trashing its bootloader during an upgrade of its OS with PocketLinux. Biggs' iPAQ adventure takes him to Compaq's Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge, MA, where he gets the device fixed and meets some of the folks who support Linux on the… (more…)

Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com reports that CPU-maker Transmeta has begun marketing its Crusoe processor to manufacturers of networking equipment, printers, and other “embedded” devices in an effort to achieve critical mass. Kanellos writes . . . (more…)