QNX Software Systems (Ottawa, Canada) has introduced a new branding — “Momentics” — to go with the company's first in-house developed graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The recently introduced QNX Momentics Development Suite marks a major step forward for QNX, one that is clearly intended to take on market leader Wind River's popular “Tornado” embedded development toolset. (more…)

Dan Kegel writes . . .

As Linux becomes more popular with embedded system developers, it's becoming increasingly important for gdb to be able to do remote debugging of multithreaded programs in an embedded Linux target. As of gdb 5.2, gdb's “gdbserver” remote probe did not support this. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — Venture Development Corp. (VDC) today unveiled highlights from a recent VDC technology market research report entitled “Java in Embedded Systems”. VDC's research showed that OEMs spent $117 million in 2001 to purchase Java technology including Java virtual machine licenses, bundled tools and services. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press releaes excerpt) — Jungo Software Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its embedded software components product line. The product line includes UPnP, USB Host, and USB Remote NDIS software stacks enabling device manufacturers to keep pace with today's expanding network requirements for device connectivity and interoperability. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems Inc. today announced it was joining the SuperH Partner Program as a Founding Member and that it will be developing and supporting the NetBSD operating system for the SH-5 processor from SuperH, Inc. (more…)

John Lui, CNET Asia staff writer reports MXI (Motion Experience Interface), an operating system that 'run programs written for Windows as well as Linux' . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA and Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Macromedia, Inc. and Opera Software ASA today announced that Macromedia Flash Player will be available to licensees of Opera's embedded browsers. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and MontaVista Software, Inc. today announced a partnership to provide Linux support for IDT's integrated communications processors targeted for existing and emerging applications including Ethernet switching, gateways,… (more…)

Bluetooth World Congress, Amsterdam, BV — (press release excerpt) — Lineo and Open Interface North America have announced a strategic partnership to develop advanced Bluetooth solutions for their OEM mobility application customers. (more…)

DaimlerChrysler recently demonstrated an S-class Mercedes equipped with Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) services, in Berlin. The demonstration was the product of a collaboration among DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile, Jentro, and MBDS / Nice University Sophia Antipolis. (more…)

London — (press release excerpt) — Thirdspace, a specialist in broadband TV enablement, announced the appointment of Holger Ippach as Head of Product Management, client solutions. Holger Ippach was previously the chief technology officer for [embedded Linux supplier] Tuxia GmbH (Augsburg, Germany). (more…)

Peabody, MA — (press release excerpt) — ScanSoft, Inc. today announced the RealSpeak Compact SDK, a text-to-speech (TTS) solution for automotive and mobile applications. The new SDK allows developers to add human-sounding speech capabilities to applications developed for devices with small processing and memory capabilities, including those based upon Microsoft Windows CE and Linux. (more…)

Scottsdale, AZ — (press release excerpt) — National Scientific Corporation (NSC) today announced the launch of its StarSeries line of intelligent wireless mobile communication platforms. StarPilot, the first product in this new family is a location information server designed to seamlessly connect automobile drivers and passengers with the Internet and location-based technologies. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium has published a pair of reviews of Embedded Linux, a book by Craig Hollabaugh. (more…)

A new article in Integrated Communications Design (iCD) highlights the growing data management challenge of developing next-generation IP routing devices. Written by Andrei Gorine of McObject, the piece presents an in-depth view of embedded routing table management (RTM) software, and proposes that by replacing “homegrown” data management with commercial in-memory database systems (IMDSs) in this role, IP… (more…)