Somers, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM announced new WebSphere Studio application development products for Linux and Web site development, as well as new toolkits for building wireless, portal, and voice applications. They are all based on the Eclipse platform, which is supported by an open-source community for multi-vendor software tool integration. (more…)

An announcement of a TCP/IP driver for USB communication between Windows hosts and Linux client devices . . . (more…)

Toronto, Canada — (press release excerpt) — Softfield Technologies has announced the availability of a Linux PDA that is compatible with the discontinued Agenda VR3. (more…)

In this informative and entertaining technical article at LinuxDevices.com, embedded developer Patrick Glennon relates his experiences in creating a small Linux-based system for a client that required robust, easy-to-use, low-cost kiosks for conducting surveys at hotels. Glennon makes use of Intrinsyc's CerfPod as the kiosk's base platform, and equips it with open source software such as the Familiar… (more…)

Matthew Broersma of CNET reports on mobile phone operating system supplier Symbian's new target — Microsoft. Broersma writes . . . (more…)

Shanghai, China — (press release excerpt) — MobileSoft Technology (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. announced today at the 7th International IC Conference & Expo (Shanghai) that it has ported its mLinux embedded Linux operating system to Motorola's DragonBall Super VZ microprocessor. (more…)

In this informative and entertaining technical article, embedded developer Patrick Glennon relates his experiences in creating a small Linux-based system for a client that required robust, easy-to-use, low-cost kiosks for conducting surveys at hotels. Glennon makes use of Intrinsyc's CerfPod as the kiosk's base platform, and equips it with open source software such as the Familiar project's Linux… (more…)

This is the slide presentation given by John Lombardo (author of Embedded Linux, published by New Riders) at the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC) held in Reston, VA during November, 2001. Quoting from the introduction . . . (more…)

Lineo issued the following announcement today regarding the completion of the company's recapitalization process and the release of the next version of the Embedix SDK . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — SOHOware Inc. will incorporate Jungo Software Technologies' OpenRG software platform in its next generation of residential and SOHO (small office / home office) networking solutions, the two companies announced today. OpenRG will be optimized to SOHOware's broadband multimedia gateway (BMG), which is being developed and built around Intel XScale technology,… (more…)

Denver, CO — (press release excerpt) — Jabber, Inc., a leading developer of software for extensible instant messaging (IM), today announced that the Jabber Communications Platform has been licensed by Aether Systems, Inc. (more…)

Rappore Technologies announced it has secured $3 million in its Series C round of funding. Rappore integrates 802.11 and Bluetooth along with other wireless technologies to enable secure wireless connectivity for personal computers, PDAs, and embedded devices such as gateway servers and network access points. (more…)

Here is an announcement from Aleph One Ltd regarding the possibility of building more LART boards . . . (more…)

Newsforge editor Tina Gasperson reports on LIDESC, a new 'license awareness tool.' Gasperson writes . . . (more…)

In this two-part tutorial at CrossNodes, Carla Schroder introduces FreeS/WAN, a free Linux implementation of IPsec (IP security) protocols. In Part 1 she discussed what FreeS/WAN does. (more…)