Tiqit Computers (Redwood City, CA) will demonstrate pre-production models of its 'eightythree' handheld PC May 14-16 at the Planet PDA technology show in Boston. The company claims that the eightythree is the first handheld PC capable of running any desktop operating system, including Windows XP and Linux. (more…)

Mike Ricciuti of CNET News reports that according to Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows, Microsoft's .NET initiative is heading back to the 'drawing board' . . . (more…)

Birmingham, England — (press release excerpt) — Equator Technologies Inc. today announced the immediate availability of 'Tetra' — a new hardware platform powered by its BSP family of high-performance Broadband Signal Processor chips, which includes the MAP-CA and BSP-15 processors. (more…)

Cambridge, UK and Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — ARM and Lineo Inc. today announced that Lineo has completed a port of Embedix, its Linux-based operating system, to the ARM PrimeXsys Wireless Platform. This is the first operating system to be ported to the PrimeXsys Wireless Platform by a third-party Intellectual Property (IP) provider and marks the first availability of embedded Linux… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has released of a Linux USB host driver supporting its SL811HS embedded host/peripheral controller. This driver will provide Linux developers the ability to add USB host functionality to a variety of embedded system applications, such as cell phones, MP3 players, network appliances and PDAs. (more…)

Tel Aviv, Israel — (press release excerpt) — The openMosix Project has announced that a sponsor and founding member of the recently founded Gelato Federation, the Hewlett-Packard Company, has invited the openMosix Team to port openMosix to the Intel IA64 Processor Family. (more…)

Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market is an analysis by Venture Development Corporation (VDC) of the current size and future growth of the worldwide market for embedded Linux software solutions. The multiclient study is designed to provide subscribers with relevant and up-to-date market intelligence to support strategic marketing and product planning decisions. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum profiles yet another leading-edge digital audio device that makes use of Linux as its embedded operating system — the Rio Central digital audio center. (more…)

Don Marti, executive editor of Embedded Linux Jounal, offers a rundown of the Linux-based designs he saw on display at the Networld+Interop in (N+I) conference held in Las Vegas this week. Marti writes . . . (more…)

The Embedded Linux Journal has announced the winners of their second annual design contest, which was based on projects using the New Internet Computer (NIC) as a platform. From twenty finalists selected last August who were… (more…)

Natick, Massachusetts — (press release excerpt) — Driven by the interest of embedded developers to use Linux in embedded systems, the question of whether and how Linux can be adapted to satisfy the requirements of real-time application demands continues to gain increased attention. (more…)

SONICblue's Rio Central is a high-fidelity home stereo component that stores up to 650 CDs (or 6,500 individual songs) on its built-in 40GB hard drive. SONICblue describes the Rio Central as being “As simple to use as a CD player, but as smart as a PC” — a Linux-based PC, that is! (more…)

[Updated May 12, 2002] Foreword: In part three of an Embedded Linux Journal series of articles by Kevin Dankwardt on Real-time Linux, Dankwardt reviewed the sub-kernel approach as used in RTLinux and RTAI and provided some benchmark numbers. Following publication of Dankwardt's article . (more…)

Stephen Shankland exposes a new controversy between GPL and Microsoft, this time focusing on how 'third-party developers can use Common Internet File Sharing (CIFS), a protocol developed by Microsoft that specifies how Windows PCs share files with servers'. Writing at CNET, Shankland provides a detailed look at the brewing discord and the possible implications for developers using GPL code . (more…)

Los Angeles, CA — (press release excerpt) — Today, IBM and video game developer Butterfly.net announced a breakthrough in providing video games over the Internet, introducing the first-ever computing grid to support the online video gaming market. Dubbed the “Butterfly Grid,” the one-of-its-kind computing system will for the first time enable video game providers to offer gamers the same experience over… (more…)