SDG Systems, LLC (Cranberry Township, PA) today announced two new options for the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA: the AerLink NPC, a high-speed data connection cable that connects the Zaurus to a cellular handset; and MobiliScan HS, a bar code scanning CompactFlash attachment. (more…)

3GNewsroom.com reports that the technical design of a new video compression standard, known as H.264/AVC, has been agreed by ITU and ISO/IEC Joint Video Team, and is expected to be approved by the third quarter of 2003 . . . (more…)

In this technical article, Nicholas McGuire examines the requirements of embedded systems and suggests some key issues that need to be addressed in order to improve Linux for use in embedded applications. From the foreword . . . (more…)

Dr. Craig Hollabaugh, author of the popular book, Embedded Linux (Addison Wesley; ISBN 0672322269), will present a 3-day seminar in Colorado on March 10-12, 2003. The seminar consists of three days of learning, surrounded by several optional days of outdoor fun. (more…)

The IBM Austin Research Laboratory, IBM Linux Technology Center, and MontaVista Software have initiated a joint project to develop a dynamic power management framework for Linux that enables the advanced features of the 405LP and other members of the emerging class of processors supporting dynamic scaling. (more…)

This article by Kevin Dankwardt provides a brief explanation of the process that led to the development of the Embedded Linux Consortium Platform Specification (ELCPS) and a cursory description of its contents. Dankwardt served as a member ELC's working group that developed the ELCPS. Dankwardt writes . . . (more…)

Dallas TX — (press release excerpt) — Texas Instruments (TI) will demonstrate its suite of products for consumer applications including home theater, portable media, automotive, and communications at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 9-12 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) has just released the ELC Platform Specification (ELCPS). As an active member of the Embedded Linux Consortium's Platform Specification Working Group, I invite all interested to carefully study the specification. (more…)

News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that start-up Sistina Software's LVM 2.0 logical volume manager technology will be included in the coming 2.6 version of the Linux kernel, having been selected over competing software from IBM developers. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

(press release excerpt) — Eclipse has launched a new open-source project focused on creating an infrastructure for developer collaboration tools. Instantiations, a supporting member of Eclipse, is organizing the project and has contributed a substantial body of source code to the effort. (more…)

What's happening with GNU Bayonne? The project leader fills us in on the free telecommunications application server in this online article from Linux Journal magazine. David Sugar writes . . . (more…)

When is one program a “derivative work” of another? Lawrence Rosen, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative (which manages and promotes the Open Source Definition), sheds some light on this important topic in an online article at Linux Journal. Rosen writes . . . (more…)

A reader in Germany writes . . .

Last week some programmers showed off the newest X-Box version from Microsoft, with Embedded Linux on it, at a Chaos Computer Club meeting at Berlin. A team of four programmers ported Linux to the latest X-Box version in just 8 weeks. Microsoft sells the X-Box in Germany for a highly subsidized price, so one can now buy an X-Box and run Linux on it at less… (more…)

This article by SD Times editor Edward J. Correia provides some interesting insight into the recently announced acquisition of Embedix Inc. (aka Lineo) by Motorola software tools subsidiary Metrowerks. Correia writes . . . (more…)

This article at SD Times provides some perspective on the significance of the just-released Embedded Linux Platform Specification. In the article, Mitch Bunnell (LynuxWorks) and Victor Yodaiken (FSMLabs) offer their opinions on why the new spec is important to Embedded Linux and, more importantly, to embedded system… (more…)