Opera Software will add WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) support to its “full HTML” browser for mobile phones, thanks to a deal with Motorola to use Mot's Global Software Group's (GSG's) WAP stack. The companies will both market the resulting product, positioning it as a way for telco operators to transition to revenue-generating HTML content while still supporting legacy WAP content. (more…)

This whitepaper is the first in a series from TimeSys's “2.6 Linux Resource Center” on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. (more…)

Access announced the addition of a new, patent-pending rendering technology to its mobile web browser, resulting in “dramatically faster” speed of web page presentation on mobile devices. Access claims that with “Rapid-Render,” the Access NetFront web browser's download speeds are up to six times faster than previous versions of NetFront. (more…)

MIPS hardware vendor Mycable and in-memory database vendor McObject have collaborated to create a hardware/software kit combining Mycable's tiny XXS1500 Linux/MIPS System and McObject's eXtremeDB embedded database, along with reference applications for multimedia, monitoring, and control systems. (more…)

Foreword — This whitepaper is the first in a series from TimeSys's”2.6 Linux Resource Center” on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. (more…)

Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann described Eclipse as “an idea whose time has come” during a keynote address at EclipseCon, according to an ADTmag.com story. Reportedly, Tiemann compared Eclipse to the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee, and the creation of Linux by Linus Torvalds, in describing Eclipse… (more…)

Metrowerks Corp. today named Matt Harris as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Harris is a former President and CEO of Lineo, which Metrowerks acquired in December of 2002. (more…)

PeerSec Networks has released a beta version of MatrixSSL, its small SSL library optimized for embedded systems and released under the GPL. The project aims to replace the comprehensive but large and BSD-licensed OpenSSL library with a GPL'ed package meeting the stringent size and security requirements of embedded systems. (more…)

Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has hired Groklaw editor Pamela Jones as Director of Litigation Risk Research. OSRM provides copyright infringement risk analysis through text pattern matching technology, and markets vendor-neutral indemnification insurance to companies — such as embedded Linux device makers — using open source technology. (more…)

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has released Data Center Linux (DCL) Technical Capabilities, version 1.0, a document that defines and prioritizes Linux capabilities required by demanding enterprise-class applications. The public reference blueprint will form the basis of a DCL requirements document, pending input from Linux distributions, large end users, and Linux kernel developers. (more…)

A project to port Linux to several smartphones manufactured by HTC of Taiwan and sold under various brand names was announced January 30 on the XDA-Developers project Website. The new “Xanadux” project aims to support GPRS and phone functions alongside Linux on the devices, and is seeking help from interested developers. (more…)

The KDevelop Team has achieved a major new release of KDevelop, a GPL-licensed, customizable, language-independent integrated development environment (IDE) with team development support. KDevelop 3.0 is a “complete re-write” of KDevelop, according to the KDevelop Team. (more…)

TimeSys claims to have made the first commercial release of Linux 2.6 for PowerPC, releasing a beta version of its “Linux Development Kit” (LDK) for the Motorola PPC8260. A 2.6-based LDK beta is also available for IA32 processors, with more architectures to follow. (more…)

TimeSys has updated its Eclipse-based TimeStorm Linux Tool Suite, adding support for any 2.6 Linux kernel and lowering the price of the TimeStorm IDE to $795 per seat. The company claims that TimeStorm is the first development tool based on Eclipse to support 2.6-series kernels. (more…)

The GameCube Linux project on Groundhog Day released an alpha version of Linux running on the Nintendo GameCube. The busybox-based release supports screen output, networking code, a telnet server, and a webserver. (more…)