San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. and NEC Electronics announced today certified benchmark scores for the Red Hat GNU C compiler for NEC's 400 megahertz (MHz) VR5500 MIPS-based microprocessor. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — Insignia Solutions announced today that Pioneer Research Center USA, Inc. (PRA) has licensed Insignia's Jeode virtual machine technologies, including source code, to integrate into a new interactive digital television platform that PRA is currently developing. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — the global IT services division of Wipro Technologies today announced the commercial availability of its Home Gateway Software suite. Wipro's Home Gateway Solution, which is currently based on Embedded Linux (using Lineo Embedix), is being demonstrated this week at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. (more…)

Campbell, CA — (press release excerpt) — Equator Technologies Inc. today announced Embedded Linux support for its Broadband Signal Processor (BSP) chip family. The high performance and low power consumption of the software-programmable BSP chip family is now paired with the accessibility and flexibility of Linux. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Driving open-source prevalence further into the mass commercial market, RidgeRun Inc. announced today that it has created dynamic shared library support for developers who are creating a broad variety of applications for embedded devices. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Tvia, Inc. today announced that it has released the CyberPro5202, the latest in its family of feature rich multimedia processors. CyberPro5202 merges multiple independent streams of audio, video, text, graphics and animation and delivers high quality output streams for display to multiple devices such as traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions, digital… (more…)

“Writing for Computerworld Singapore, Gerald Wee weighs in on the future of Linux PDAs . . .” (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Rachis Corp. today unveiled Rachis eWorkbench, a new automated software suite that streamlines the testing and verification of embedded devices. Rachis eWorkbench test tool currently runs on Embedded Linux and the Windows Embedded family of products, and is easily portable to other embedded operating systems. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Microelectronics today announced the launch of its 8, 16/32 and 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) and System-on-Chip (SoC) product line, under the BlueStreak family name. The family is targeted at the mobile/multimedia, home/office automation and industrial markets. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Eternal Systems made its debut today, demonstrating the latest version of its breakthrough FT/ORB embedded fault-tolerance solution, and introducing its new NIFTI lightweight fault-detector/notifier software. (more…)

[Updated Mar. 13, 2002] San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference –(press release excerpt) — Microtronix announced today that they will support the creation of customized embedded Linux kernels in the Altera SOPC Builder automated system development tool. Customers will be able to combine the Nios soft-core processor development flow with embedded Linux development, providing great flexibility… (more…)

Hannover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Trintech Group Plc today unveiled PayWare OpenPOS, the world's first open source POS (point of sale) terminal architecture designed to run a range of secure PIN-based card payment applications. (more…)

San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that its Linux-based solutions have been optimized to support Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC IIe family of processors. (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications, publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal, is pleased to announce that finalists have been chosen in the Linux4.TV embedded Linux development contest. (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader reports that Microsoft will announce speech recognition technology for Xbox gaming systems at ESC in San Francisco on Wednesday. (more…)