Robert Roebling, of the wxWindows project, writes . . .

I would like to announce that a new development version of the wxWindows library has been released. wxWindows is an OpenSource cross-platform C++ GUI library with very popular bindings for Python, Perl and recently Basic and Lua. (more…)

The Linux Users' Group of Davis, CA has announced that Bill Kendrick, open source software developer and creator of a number of games and applications for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA, will be discussing Sharp's new “Zaurus” SL-5000 Linux/Java-based PDA at the Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), which meets in Davis, California (near Sacramento,… (more…)

Getting to know the TCSX-1

They say good things come in small packages. Advantage Business Computer Systems' TCSX-1 Thin Client is one of those good things. Add a keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor to this little box and you have a simple Network, Serial or X Windows terminal. (more…)

By Matthew Broersma ZDNet (UK) . . .

Linux companies are incensed by a recently published Microsoft document that compares Windows XP Embedded to embedded Linux. The critics are calling some of the document's claims misleading or factually wrong. (more…)

Peter Wurmsdobler provided this report on the recent Real-time Linux Workshop held in Milan, Italy . . . (more…)

Dublin, Ireland — (press release excerpt) — Rococo Software today announced the launch of the beta program for its Bluetooth simulator and the world's first standards-based Java tool for developing Bluetooth applications. (more…)

Melbourne, FL — (press release excerpt) — Linux software specialist AbsoluteValue Systems Inc. today announced the availability of the latest version of their widely used Linux software package, linux-wlan, for wireless LAN (WLAN), with added support for USB WLAN adapters. USB WLAN adapters are popular with desktop computer users with PCs which do not have a slot for PCMCIA WLAN cards. (more…)

Geneva, Switzerland — (press release excerpt) — STMicroelectronics announced today an agreement with ZF Micro Devices that will allow customers to use ZF Micro's crash-immune Failsafe technology with ST's range of x86-based STPC system-on-chip products. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Fathammer today announced it is optimizing its X-Forge video game engine for the Intel StrongARM SA-1110 processor and the Intel XScale microarchitecture, utilizing the Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP). Fathammer's X-Forge supports multiple mobile operating systems, including those from Microsoft and Symbian as well as mobile Linux. (more…)

Buffalo Grove, IL — (press release excerpt) — according a recent market research report by eTForecasts, shipments of PocketPC-based PDAs will surpass that of PalmOS-based PDAs in 2005. (more…)

Camas, WA — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Microelectronics today announced that it has shipped beta customers the LH7A400, a 200MHz system-on-chip (SOC) with ARM922T core, offering high performance at the lowest power consumption available. Beta customers span a wide range of applications: Wireless Handheld Gaming Devices, SmartPhones, PocketPCs, Home Entertainment Controllers, Industrial Web-Tablets,… (more…)

By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News . . .

Intel's Russian resarch labs have produced an update to its open-source software that allows computers to recognise objects and perceive depth. (more…)

Join John Lombardo, as he checks out Advantage Business Computer Systems' TCSX-1 Thin Client, a tiny 486-based Linux system, to see what makes it tick — and whether it can be hacked (to put it to work for other purposes). Lombardo writes . . . (more…)

Pittsburgh, PA — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corp. today announced that it has added four new executives to its management team. Kurt Friedrich is the company's new Vice President of Engineering; John Bugos joins as the company's new Chief Financial Officer; Mike Brennan, as Vice President of Business Development; and Vincent Thomas, as Vice President of International Business Development . (more…)

In this guest editorial, consultant and project manager Oliver Fels responds to Microsoft's online comparison of Windows XP Embedded to Embedded Linux . . . (more…)