A PC World article entitled “Gadgets Galore: Newest PDAs, Players, Phones” mentions the two recently announced models of Sharp Electronic's Zaurus Linux-based PDAs, the SL-B500 (aka SL-5600, the update to the current SL-5500 model that's… (more…)

Bayonne, NJ — (press release excerpt) — With the latest GNU Bayonne beta release (1.1.2), we have greatly expanded support for and integration of automated text to speech synthesized voice systems. Using “flite” based text to speech synthesis engines, initially developed through Carnegie Mellon University, and commercial derivatives of “flite”, such as Cepstral's Theta, it is now possible to have fully… (more…)

How will we build wireless networks robust enough to support the emerging multimedia-aware digital home? That tough environment will be filled with laptops, TVs, DVD players, and camcorders. (more…)

The newest version of the popular open source Mozilla web browser and email suite has just been released. What's new? From the Mozilla 1.2 Release Notes page . . . (more…)

Ottawa, ON — Espial today announced a web seminar series beginning December 17 to help telematics developers, project managers, engineers, and marketing managers access the latest expertise and technology. Each seminar will provide practical expertise and real world working examples to address challenges faced by the telematics development community. (more…)

Zarlink Semiconductor (Ottawa, ON) has launched a family of highly integrated system-on-chip processors aimed at the worldwide digital TV set-top box (STB) market. Dubbed “DVB-T On a Chip” processors, the ZL10310 and ZL10311 enable the design of the world's smallest digital terrestrial STBs which comply with Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) standards, according to Zarlink. (more…)

Hungry for facts and data about grid computing? This whitepaper at IBM's developerWorks website covers the concepts, use, and architecture of grid computing. Learn grid concepts, grid components, and grid construction — as well as what grid computing can do now and in the future, and what it can't do now and won't be able to do in the future. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Xilinx, Inc. announced the availability of its new ML300 evaluation platform to support designs based om the company's Virtex-II Pro FPGAs with immersed IBM PowerPC processors and RocketIO 3.125 Gb/s serial transceivers. (more…)

An announcement from Rhys Weatherley of the DotGNU project . . . (more…)

Newport Beach and San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Conexant Systems Inc. and Jungo Software Technologies Inc. anounced a reference design for HomePlug-enabled CableHome-based residential and small office/home office (SOHO) standalone gateways. The design will allow multi-service operators (MSOs) to deliver home networking services over existing electrical wiring to current cable modem… (more…)

Writing at OSnews.com, Jon Nelson reviews Boa, a small-footprint webserver that is popular in resource-constrained Linux-based embedded systems and mobile devices. Nelson write . . . (more…)

In this article at LinuxDevices.com, Jerry Epplin takes a detailed look Qplus, an open source embedded Linux toolkit, examining what the project has accomplished — and what is still to be done. Epplin writes . . . (more…)

Venture Development Corporation (VDC) published the following report and perspective on the Embedded Systems Conference held earlier this month in Boston . . . (more…)

Microsoft has been venturing into enemy territory again in its latest bid to win converts from the Linux community, according to an exclusive story at WindowsForDevices.com. (more…)

Background

Previous articles in this series have examined some commercial toolkits available for embedding Linux. The products from Lineo, MontaVista, (more…)