By Ernest Khoo, ZDNet News . . .

The handheld computer is commonly seen as a geek toy for affluent mobile professionals. However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the information age to developing countries. (more…)

Rumors are flying about that Samsung has discontinued the Yopy Linux PDA, as a result of the unveiling of a new Samsung PDA (the “Nexio”) which runs Windows CE. In a story at CNET, Brian Bennett and Colin Duwe report that “a… (more…)

by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet (UK) . . .

Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on the Linux operating system. (more…)

[Updated Jan. 10: added photo taken at CES] Royal Consumer Information Products unveiled a new Linux-powered PDA Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. Royal's new “[email protected]” PDA sports a full-color graphic LCD display and is based on a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor with 16MB of Flash ROM and 32MB of system RAM. (more…)

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is offering a new course on Embedded Linux which will be taught on nine Thursday evenings, from now through March 7, 2002. Registration for the course is still open, and students who cannot make tonight's class are welcome to join before next week, according to the instructor. (more…)

Invair Technologies (Stuttgart, Germany) unveiled a new Linux-based PDA this week at CeBIT 2002 in Hannover, Germany. According to Adrian Steinmann of Invair, the device, called the Filewalker, was designed to be able to be operated with one hand, weighs a mere 0.2 lbs, and is quite small (though… (more…)

This technical article by Andrey N. Filippov describes the use of Embedded Linux in the design of the Elphel Model 303 High Speed Gated Intensified Camera. The device combines a fast gated micro-channel plate (MCP) image intensifier, a CMOS image sensor, and an embedded computer based on an Axis ETRAX RISC processor running Embedded Linux. (more…)

Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corporation today appointed Chuck Colford to the newly created post of General Manager. Colford brings more than 20 years of team building, engineering, and executive management expertise to OnCore Systems. Colford will be based out of the company's recently announced Ottawa Design Center located in Ottawa,
Canada. (more…)

ELJonline.com has published the online version of the January, 2002 edition of the Embedded Linux Journal. As usual, the new issue is filled with interesting and informative articles on embedded Linux technologies and projects, including . . .

• Real Time and Linux
• The Linux4.TV Set-Top Box Open Source Project
• Linux and Telematics: Building a Passenger Heatstroke… (more…)

Waterford, MI -­ (press release excerpt) — The Linux Terminal Server Project team announce the immediate release of version 3.0 of the LTSP software package. The LTSP package has become the standard for running thin client computers on a Linux server. It provides an ideal solution for organizations who want to provide high quality computing solutions to networked users at the lowest possible cost. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Aduva, Inc. today announced that it has received a 14 million dollar capital infusion from BMC Software and the Intel 64 Fund along with previous investors Cap Ventures, Evergreen Management Limited and The Capital Group. Financial details of Aduva's C round of investment capital were not disclosed. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — ACCESS Systems America today announced that it now supports Trolltechs Qt/Embedded application development toolkit for ACCESS popular NetFront for Linux microbrowser. (more…)

Elphel, Inc. has used Embedded Linux in the design of a High Speed Gated Intensified Camera. The device combines a fast gated micro-channel plate (MCP) image intensifier, a CMOS image sensor, and an embedded computer based on an Axis Communications ETRAX RISC processor running Embedded Linux. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. announced today the availability of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Intel Itanium Processor, which features the Red Hat Linux 7.2 operating system with the 2.4 kernel and ext3 journaling file system. This configuration supports the very large address space of Itanium-based systems and scales efficiently to eight or more Itanium processors… (more…)

Las Vegas, NV; Consumer Electronics Show — (press release excerpt) — RealNetworks today launched the RealOne Consumer Electronics Acceleration Program. The program, which addresses both the needs of consumer electronics microprocessor companies and consumer electronics device companies, will work to bring the near DVD-quality video and CD-quality audio programming available through RealAudio and… (more…)