Tvia, a manufacturer of multimedia display processor chips, announced new embedded MPEG-4 software support for consumer devices such as enhanced DVD players, interactive TVs, set-top boxes, information appliances, and mobile devices. (more…)

The Philips iPronto may well be a gadget-lover's dream come true. Ever glance around the family room in bewilderment at the number and diversity of remote controls required to make your entertainment systems go? If so, you might think you know why Philips created this brainy new remote. (more…)

SD Times editor Eddie Correia offers a perspective on the open source eCos real-time operating system, on the occasion of the release of the beta of eCos version 2.0. Correia collects comments from a number of companies and developers currently engaged in offering eCos related development services, as well as from former members of… (more…)

MontaVista Software disclosed today that Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) has incorporated MontaVista's embedded Linux operating system as the embedded software platform in a new broadband TV tuner, called Broadnow, which was recently introduced in Japan. (more…)

The Philips iPronto may well be a gadget-lover's dream come true. Ever glance around the family room in bewilderment at the number and diversity of remote controls required to make your entertainment systems go? If so, you might think you know why Philips created this brainy new remote. (more…)

Embedded guru Bill Gatliff is teaching an “Embedded Linux Jumpstart” class at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco next week. The all-day class is intended to help get new embedded Linux users up and running on real embedded hardware as quickly as possible, Gatliff said. (more…)

“Best of Show” finalists, selected from among the exhibitors at next week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Francisco, have been announced by show producer CMP Media. The finalists, which represent fourteen end-products based on the exhibitors' products, span a broad range of interesting applications for embedded systems. (more…)

The Mozilla project has published a new project development roadmap, detailing plans for significant changes to the future development of the Mozilla codebase. The new roadmap represents the third major strategy update since the original project roadmap was published in 1998. (more…)

This article at IBM's developerWorks website explains how to use the open source Eclipse platform for XML (Extensible Markup Language) development. Eclipse does not support XML code editing right out of the box, but because Eclipse is a platform-independent framework for building developer tools, you can add support for new languages relatively easily. (more…)

As an exercise in embedded system design, Michael Palmer set out to develop the “mp3 Toaster.” Palmer's embedded Linux mp3 toaster combines embedded hardware with Open Source software (Linux, LAME, Netjuke, Lirc) to create a computing appliance that operates without the need for a keyboard, mouse, or monitor. (more…)

The Fifth Real-Time Linux Workshop, being held Nov. 9-11, 2003 in Valencia, Spain, has issued a call for papers. Interested participants are invited to send abstracts or draft papers by Jul. 15, 2003 on one or more of the following topics . . .

• Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating system
• contributions and tools relating to real-time Linux variants
  … (more…)

Eshida Corp. (Taipei) announced what it calls an “instant embedded Linux distribution” for x86 processor-based systems and devices. According to Eshida, its “Eshida Instant Embedded Linux” (EIEL) distribution can run entirely from CDROM, requiring less than 16MB of system memory. EIEL can also be used to install the embedded Linux system image in Flash memory devices such as DiskOnChip, DiskOnModule, or… (more…)

AMD announced a new Linux-based hardware/software reference design for develping “access equipment” based on its Alchemy Solutions Au1500 MIPS32 architecture system-on-chip processor. Applications targeted include data- and voice-enabled wireless access points, gateways, routers/firewalls, IADs (Internet access devices), cable MTAs (multimedia terminal adaptors), IP-telephony devices, and IP-PBXs (private… (more…)

Opera announced that beta 1 of their web browser version 7.10 for Linux is now available for download. Opera said the 7.10 beta for Linux incorporates many enhancements and features from the version 7 Windows release, including an M2 email client, “FastForward” and “Rewind” the web, “Take Web Notes” as you browse, viewing photos as a slideshow, the “Wand” password manager, a cookie manager, mouse… (more…)

The Open Media toolkit (OMT), a platform independent C++ framework for developing real-time 2D/3D multimedia applications, has recently been released under the GNU General Public License. OMT has reportedly been used to develop a number of commercial applications including games from Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Scitex, and HumanCode. (more…)