Glendale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Art & Logic, the official support partner for GoAhead WebServer, announced the release of GoAhead WebServer 2.1.4. GoAhead WebServer 2.1.4 includes support for Mac OS X. The portable ANSI-C source code can be easily ported to additional platforms. (more…)

Security is hard, it doesn't sit still, and it's difficult to know how far it needs to extend. This online article at IBM's developerWorks website outlines a number of ways to keep user accounts clean and safe, including strategies for keeping different types of users organized. It shows you how to reduce risks and eliminate headaches through sensible account management. (more…)

Sharp Corporation introduced the Zaurus SL-A300 Personal Mobile Tool into the Japanese market in June, 2002. This new model is said to offer enhanced compatibility with PCs, and is claimed to be the world's smallest and lightest PDA among QVGA color LCD-equipped handhelds (as of June 24, 2002). (more…)

The American Microsystems, Ltd. (AML) M7100 is a wireless data collection terminal that enables the real-time sharing of information between points of business activity and back-end business systems. Users scan or key data into the terminal, and the collected data is then transferred real-time over an IEEE 802.11b WLAN network to a database located on a back-end server. (more…)

This online article at Linux Journal provides an overview of voice recognition software for Linux, its benefits and shortcomings, and its cloudy future. Rob Spearman writes . . . (more…)

Las Vegas – Sharp Electronics and Aether Systems launched Sharp Mobile Services' Enterprise version for the Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA today at the CTIA Wireless IT & Internet Trade Show, Las Vegas. The support includes email, custom applications, and an integrated wireless data package. (more…)

Taipei — (press release excerpt) — Intel has added an ultra low voltage 400 MHz Celeron processor to its embedded roadmap. The MPU is aimed at fanless, small form-factor embedded computing applications. (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — Hitachi Semiconductor America Inc. has announced the lastest entry to the SH family of RISC processors. It is the 32-bit SH7058F microcontroller, a 32-bit RISC MCU that runs at 80 MHz, can perform 104 million instructions per second (MIPS), and is equipped with 1 MB of on-chip Flash memory. (more…)

News.com's Paul Festa interviews Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner about Opera's latest web-browsing technology, which squeezes a full size web page into a mobile phone or PDA screen. von Tetzchner demonstrates the way the browser works on small screens, and explains the technology (in a nontechnical manner). (more…)

San Jose, CA; Microprocessor Forum — (press release excerpt) — NEC unveiled a new architecture for dynamically reconfigurable processor LSI solutions at the annual Microprocessor Forum held this week in San Jose, CA. During its presentation, NEC revealed the company has successfully developed a prototype LSI solution that can be configured instantaneously to meet the dynamically changing requirements of… (more…)

Orlando, FL; Intel Communications Summit — (press release excerpt) — Force Computers today announced the EndurX C21K system based on its open-standards High Availability Architecture (HA2) for an Ultra Availability (UA) solution of “zero-downtime” services. As the second in a new line of fully integrated hardware-software solutions, the EndurX C21K UA system offers an advanced SNMP remote management… (more…)

YOPY.AT has announced that G.Mate is developing a new version of its YOPY Linux PDA with a CompactFlash slot. Expected to become available in the beginning of 2003, the new model YP3700 satisfies the requirement for wireless operation of the YOPY Linux PDA. A GSM/GPRS module is also said to be in the works. (more…)

KernelTrap.org interviews Robert Love to learn more about a new patch which provides greater control over the frequency of the Linux kernel's timer interrupt . . . (more…)

Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — version 2.4.1-1 of Embedix SDK represents Lineo's first major step toward transforming the Embedix Tool Suite into a full, open Linux development environment. We've provided the tools and documentation to import kernels, applications, updated compilers and debuggers, drivers, and other packages from any open source supplier. (more…)

Kirkland, WA and Los Angeles, CA — Wildseed Ltd. (formerly GiTWIT) and Moviso LLC are collaborating to enhance Wildseed's embedded Linux based 'Smart Skins' for the new Kyocera phone, codenamed Δ2 (Delta2), and other Smart Skin capable phones that are scheduled to be introduced during 2003 in Europe and the Americas. (more…)