Foreword: The following detailed technical whitepaper was written by Don Davies, who developed it in the course of his work with the PROTOR, a distributed vibration monitoring system. Below is an excerpt, followed by a link for downloading the complete 24-page whitepaper. (more…)

The robots are coming, the robots are coming . . .

According to a fascinating article at TechNewsWorld, Linux is poised to play a central role in an emerging industry that many expect to overtake the PC industry in size: robotics. (more…)

This article by a technical marketing engineer in Intel's Software Solutions Group introduces Intel's Mobile Application Architecture Guide, which was created to help application developers understand the issues that are arising through the growing proliferation of wireless mobile computing devices. (more…)

Despite growing automotive commitment to Bluetooth, efforts have been significantly impaired by a deficit of Bluetooth-enabled mobile handsets, according to a recent study by technology research firm ABI. (more…)

HP announced that it is adding RadiSys high-availability blade servers and technologies to its Carrier Grade Linux portfolio for the telecommunications and service provider market. The RadiSys boards are based on Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors, and are available in both blade server and rack-mount configurations. (more…)

[Updated 4:30pm PST] — Interact-TV has introduced a less expensive version of its embedded Linux and open source software based “Telly” home entertainment server. The $749 Telly model MC800 provides broadband Internet, cable and satellite TV, digital audio and video entertainment, and digital home networking. (more…)

The Consulting Times has published an article by veteran computer lab manager Tom Adelstein that addresses some common fallacies and myths about open software and makes a strong business case for the sound scientific principles behind open source development. (more…)

U.S. companies interested in exploring business opportunities with leading Japanese consumer electronics makers are invited to participate in a matching event organized by JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. (more…)

Current and future applications for location-aware technologies, as envisioned by Intel, are discussed in this whitepaper by Sanjay Deshmukh, a standards architect in Intel's Corporate Technology Group (CTG), and John David Miller, who co-leads the location-aware computing initiative for Intel's Systems Technology Lab in CTG. (more…)

TimeSys will deliver real-time embedded Linux support for Intel's newest generation of I/O processors, targeting high performance storage applications such as intelligent network adapter cards, RAID adapter cards, and network storage target devices. (more…)

According to numerous reports in the last several days, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest cellular carrier, has adopted embedded Linux for its 3G phones. NTT DoCoMo apparently hopes the Linux-based handsets will accelerate adoption of its 3G, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) services. (more…)

A team of computer scientists at IBM and the University of California/Lawrence Livermore Labs have used Linux and embedded system-on-chip (SoC) technology to achieve a breakthrough in supercomputer technology expected to radically reduce the size and cost of highly scalable systems, while dramatically increasing performance. (more…)

Foreword

A team of computer scientists at IBM and the University of California/Lawrence Livermore Labs have used Linux and embedded System on Chip (SoC) technology to achieve a breakthrough in supercomputer technology expected to radically reduce the size and cost of highly scalable systems, while dramatically increasing performance. (more…)

The Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) has issued a call for papers for its track on Embedded Operating Systems. FOSDEM will be held in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 20-21, 2004. (more…)

The Real-Time Application Interface (RTAI) for Linux has achieved the first test release in its 3.0 series, with radical changes it hopes will free it from patent issues relating to FSMLabs's RTLinux product. The new series features a new modular infrastructure, configuration interface, and build system, among other features. (more…)