Reuters news service reports that Sharp Electronics and SAP AG, a maker of collaborative business application software, are partnering to give mobile corporate users remote access to SAP's business software apps using Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDAs. The alliance is the first such partnership for SAP with a mobile hardware manufacturer, the story said. (more…)

The European Commission (EC) has funded a project to promote the adoption of Open Source software, including Linux, in embedded systems. The project, known as Industrial Embedded Systems (INES), was funded by the European Community's Fifth Framework Programme for research, technological development, and… (more…)

Motorola and its Metrowerks tools subsidiary jointly announced support for Motorola's DragonBall i.MX1 “applications processor” on Metrowerks' recently-announced OpenPDA platform, a family of software components, development tools, and related services for Linux-based mobile devices. (more…)

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) announced today that Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton will work for the lab under an agreement between Digeo Inc. (Morton's employer) and OSDL. Morton will be focused exclusively on the 2.6 kernel during its maintenance cycle, the Lab said. (more…)

Trolltech unveiled a new scripting language for Qt-based applications. According to Trolltech, Qt Script for Applications (QSA) leverages the powerful Qt API, taking static Qt/C++ applications and making them dynamic. Trolltech said QSA can be used to prototype changes in already-compiled applications, write test scripts, customize applications to specific requirements, script-enable applications to… (more…)

[Updated 5:45pm PDT] — MontaVista Software issued a statement today “strongly endorsing” the new initiative announced yesterday by the CE Linux Forum (CELF), noting that its own consumer electronics (CE) implementation of embedded Linux was (more…)

Lineo uSolutions announced plans to develop and sell embedded Linux support for the evaluations boards of MediaQ, a chipmaker specializing in multimedia processors for handheld devices. Additionally, the companies said they will collaborate on various sales and marketing activities. (more…)

The Sharp enterprise website's July 2003 “Enterprise Focus” article is a case study of a project at CSX Transportation, a fortune 50 US railroad company. The case study reports on the results of a project to deploy several hundred of Sharp's Zaurus Linux-based PDAs to field forces at CSXT to allow those workers to perform federally mandated tests and inspections. (more…)

[Updated 10:00pm Jul. 2, 2003] — What began as a small but powerful call for an embedded Linux collaboration among Japanese consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers last December turned into a roar today, as eight consumer electronics powerhouses proclaimed the establishment of the “CE Linux Forum” (CELF). (more…)