LinuxDevices.com previews the Zultys ZIP 4×4, a new IP phone that is said to be built 100 percent on open technologies, including “a highly stable real-time Linux operating system.” This device profile briefly reviews the features of the device, explores why and how Linux was chosen to be its embedded operating system, and finds… (more…)

Motorola announced a new reference platform for developers of residential and SOHO (small office / home office) gateway products. The “Smart Gateway 857 IAD” platform supports bridging and routing, hardware-based VPN security, packet telephony, and wireless access capabilities, and can be used as the basis for xDSL modems and routers, Ethernet routers, and voice-enabled integrated access devices (IADs),… (more…)

Motorola announced a new Voice Over IP (VoIP) reference platform for developing media gateway devices including remote access servers (RAS) and IP-PBXs. The new platform, called the “Smart Packet Telephony 8101,” is said to support IP-based voice, fax, and modem data services. (more…)

Sharp has just published a technical whitepaper describing the key differences between the SL-5500 and the new SL-5600 models of the Zaurus Linux PDA. The paper includes hardware changes, like CPU, estimated battery life, and physical size, as well as differences in the operating system and core applications. (more…)

Conexant Systems announced a new family of home network processors for broadband gateways and wide area network access applications. The CX8611x family enables secure, high-speed Internet access sharing for multiple personal computers while supporting Ethernet, USB, HomePNA, HomePlug, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, and other network media, the company said. (more…)

ON Technology will showcase new technology for remotely managing Linux-based systems and mobile devices at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2003 next week in San Diego. The new technology is described as being suitable for managing devices such as blade servers and wireless devices. (more…)

From the Linux command line, Perl can accomplish — in just a single line — tasks that require pages of code in most other languages. Those who use Perl as a programming language frequently forget that it is just as useful as a quick and dirty scripting engine for command-line operations. (more…)

While not specifically embedded in orientation, any major release of Mozilla is potentially important to developers using — or embedding — the highly popular open source web browser and email suite. (more…)

The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in 1995. Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain “hard real-time” performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this LinuxDevices.com article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan — three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux — summarize the state of RTLinux eight years… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com takes a look at the Hubit, a small Linux-based “black box” type device that resides on the web and interfaces to various industrial field buses, allowing remote web-based supervision of building automation and industrial processes. (more…)

IDG News Service reports that Motorola does not plan to initially allow programmers to develop Linux-based applications to run on its recently announced A760 combination handset/PDA, due to concerns that “Linux is not secure enough.” Instead, developers will… (more…)

Market researcher Future Image Inc. announced today that it expects “cell phone cameras” to outsell digital and film cameras combined in 2003. The projection came from the results of a recently completed Future Image survey, titled The Camera-phone Phenomenon — A “New Deal” in Imaging. (more…)

A recent study by EMC Market Data indicates that the US handset market attained 141.4 million cellular phone subscribers as of December 2002, surpassing 50% penetration. The report observes that CDMA technology currently dominates the US market, and is likely to continue to do so through 2007, despite the challenge from GSM, the dominant mobile phone standard in Europe and several other markets. (more…)

Synergy Microsystems announced today that their new switched-fabric interconnect PMC module can sustain aggregate data rates of 1.2 gigabytes/second, based on six streams of full-duplex data transfer at 400 megabytes/second. (more…)

Foreword: The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in 1995. Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain “hard real-time” performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan — three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux — summarize the state of RTLinux… (more…)