Botech's “Hubit” is 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…)

WebLink Wireless, a provider of paging and messaging services in North America, unveiled several new 2-way messaging products at the CTIA show in New Orleans this week. Included among the new messaging devices which are being added to the company's “ReFLEX product suite” is one which uses Linux as its embedded operating system — the Sun Telecom S-935. (more…)

The following is an announcement from the ecos-discuss mailing list. eCos is an open source real-time operating system originally developed by Cygnus Solutions, later taken over by Red Hat (via its acquisition of Cygnus), and subsequently turned over by Red Hat to a worldwide independent developer community. (more…)

Although it has already been widely reported that Motorola's new A760 mobile phone uses MontaVista Linux as its embedded operating system, Motorola and MontaVista used the occasion of the… (more…)

Hitachi's Internet Platform Business Unit announced today that Codehost has developed a handwriting recognition interface for the Linux version of the Hitachi VisionPlate Wireless Tablet. (more…)

SnapGear Inc. has embedded its VPN appliance technology into a smart PCI NIC card which contains a built-in security processor. Controlled by an embedded Linux operating system (uClinux, to be precise), the SnapGear PCI630 provides full multi-VPN capabilities for secure access and communication, the company said. (more…)

[Updated Mar. 19, 2003] — The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software announced today that they are collaborating to combine TRON (“The Real-time Operating system Nucleus”) — the long-dominant Japanese embedded operating system — with embedded Linux, in an effort to create a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of… (more…)

A new reference design for developing consumer “media center” applications was announced today by Toshiba America Electronic Components. The system, based on Toshiba's TX7901 64-bit MIPS architecture system-on-chip processor, is expected to form the basis of high performance media-centric consumer devices such as digital set-top boxes, personal video recorders, media gateways, and various other networked… (more…)

The Server Blade Summit 2003 tradeshow and conference has issued an announcement summarizing the results of its recently concluded event and about the overall state of the associated market. (more…)

[Updated Mar. 18, 2003] Microsoft and Wind River are currently in a “dead heat” for the top position in sales of embedded operating system software and toolkits, according to Stephen Balacco, embedded software analyst at Venture Development Corp. (VDC). (more…)

Progeny Linux Systems Inc. announced a web-based tool and associated services that are meant to ease the task of creating, testing, and maintaining custom Linux distributions for specialized applications — including embedded systems and devices. The new tool, called Linux Platform Manager, is used along with a subscription service called Progeny Platform Services. (more…)

The Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA can be purchased for just under $200 from the Home Shopping Network, according to a short article at Dealnews.com. (more…)

Sharp Electronics announced today that it has begun shipping the Zaurus SL-5600 Linux PDA. Relative to the earlier Zaurus SL-5500, the new model offers a faster CPU (400MHz XScale vs. 206 MHz StrongARM), twice the protected Flash storage memory (32MB vs 16MB), and extended battery life (1700 mAh). (more…)

Sleepycat Software says the latest version of its popular Berkeley DB database software represents the first database support for Linux operating systems compliant with the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 1.1 feature set. Linux implementations which support OSDL CGL include those of MontaVista Software, Red Hat, and UnitedLinux (distributed by SuSE and TurboLinux). (more…)

eCosCentric Ltd. announced the release of eCos 2.0 Beta, the latest version of the eCos real-time operating system. According to the announcement, the 2.0 beta is a “substantial release, which reinforces eCos as the premier royalty-free open source RTOS.” (more…)