Detroit, MI — (press release exerpt) — Sensoria Corp. and Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc. today announced that the two companies will jointly market Sensoria's Linux-based mGate Development Platform, an open in-vehicle telematics platform based on Hitachi's SuperH RISC architecture. (more…)

Matt Loney of ZDNet reports that IBM says that if programmers have to make any transition, it should be to Java, as .Net simply does not make sense for heterogenous environments. Loney writes . . . (more…)

Vancouver, BC — (press release exerpt) — Intrinsyc Software, Inc. today announced that it will extend its reach into the growing telematics (wireless in-vehicle computing) market segment. Expected to undergo an average growth rate of 90 percent a year over the next five years, the total number of cars fitted with telematics systems is expected to reach 56 million by 2005 worldwide (ARC Group). (more…)

Santa Barbara, CA — (press release exerpt) — Green Hills Software Inc. today announced that it has achieved the greatest market share growth in 2001 among embedded RTOSes addressing “hard real-time requirements,” according to a study released this month by Venture Development Corp. (VDC), a leading technology market research firm. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release exerpt) — Simplified today announced that it has successfully completed the first customer-site deployment of Red Hat Linux on the Simplified Open Services Platform. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release exerpt)– MontaVista Software Inc., and Master Integrated Appliances Co., Ltd. (MasterIA) have joined forces to distribute and support MontaVista Software products in Taiwan. (more…)

Cary, NC — (press release exerpt) — LVL7 Systems announced today the launch of an aggressive Linux strategy which includes:

• The introduction of FASTPATH, the industry's first completely integrated Linux-based switch/router services enabled software solution for the enterprise, metro, and access markets,
• A partnerships with Red Hat and MontaVista Software,
• The creation of a Linux… (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release exerpt) — Metrowerks is now offering the use of live testing facilities to wireless application developers, handset manufacturers and middleware vendors, giving them access to Metrowerks' mobile network, which provides CDMA, GSM (2G), and GPRS (2.5G) services. (more…)

Richardson, TX — (press release excerpt) — Cambridge Silicon Radio announced today that Zenocom has selected CSR's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore, for its latest Bluetooth Class 1 module called the BlueLink01.

The module will enable Bluetooth to be incorporated into a range of mobile phones, laptops, headsets, and PDAs and includes a variety of Bluetooth profiles to support these… (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release exerpt) — DMOD, Inc. today announced the DMOD DRM Platform, an end-to-end OEM solution that allows owners and distributors of proprietary digital assets to securely sell and distribute intellectual property across any network or device. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release exerpt) — Atmel Corporation and Lineo, Inc. today announced a partnership to develop and market turnkey products for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. These products will enable OEMs to rapidly develop end-user products such as IP phones based on the combination of Atmel's AT75C Smart Internet Appliance Processor (SIAP) hardware and the Lineo Embedix Linux operating system… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release exerpt) — AMD announced that SuSE Linux AG has submitted enhancements to the official Linux kernel to support AMD's x86-64 instruction set. (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release exerpt) — A new survey of embedded systems developers by industry research firm Evans Data Corporation. reveals that availability of development tools is an overriding consideration — second only to performance — when selecting a CPU. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release exerpt) — Force Computers today announced the EndurX 25K platform for “Ultra Availability” (UA) solutions, the first in a new line of fully integrated system solutions. EndurX 25K UA offers advanced remote platform management and High Availability (HA) middleware and software upgradeability. (more…)

Nashua, NH — (press release exerpt) — Recognizing the opportunity for Linux to penetrate vertical markets, Linux International (LI) announced the launch of a vertical industry marketing initiative for Linux-related products and services. (more…)