Mediabolic, Inc. describes its Network Media Player (NMP), just announced and demonstrated at the [email protected] conference, as a standards-based technology platform for wirelessly integrating a TV with home PCs and the Internet. (more…)

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has announced a board support package (BSP) for running uCLinux on its ADSP-BF533 Blackfin, a novel processor which integrates a DSP core into a traditional microcontroller architecture. Running a Linux derivative on the chip “empowers engineering teams to share and develop ideas (more…)

TimeSys Corp. has launched an upgrade program that it says will help telecommunications and network equipment providers quickly upgrade to Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition version 2.0.2 (CGL 2.0) of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). Adding the features of the CGL 2.0 spec will provide major improvements in performance, (more…)

Texas Instruments is sampling a new OMAP broadband processor and chipset for midrange mobile phones, along with a single-board reference design that includes an embedded Linux software stack, as well as Java acceleration support. The TI OMAPV1030 for GSM/GPRS/EDGE applications aims to deliver advanced multimedia capabilities to mass-market wireless devices (more…)

Impassioned battles between Linux and Windows partisans are no longer confined to the desktop and server arenas. With the growing ubiquity of smart devices, the device arena offers action every bit as intense, justifying massive vendor technology investments, high-dollar PR campaigns, and generous helpings of technical hyperbole from both… (more…)

Having completed its $16M acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS) earlier this month, PalmSource today announced the addition of four former CMS products to its product line. Included among them is PalmSource mFone for Smart Phones, a Linux smartphone software stack that includes a GUI, device drivers, network protocols, development tools, (more…)

Trolltech announced today that more than fifty companies are currently developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than twenty mobile phones. These successes signal “a surge in the market for handsets built on the popular open source Linux operating system,” the company says. (more…)

Embedded software powerhouse Wind River's metamorphosis into an embedded Linux vendor appears to be complete. The company will announce today that it is shipping a pre-release version of its first embedded Linux distribution, and that it has already delivered 1,000 “developer seats” for the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 (more…)

Utah startup Opengear Inc. unveils its first products this week at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. The CM4000 remote console servers come in 8-, 16-, and 48-port models, and are powered by an ARM-based system-on-chip processor running uClinux along with software from other open source projects. (more…)

Opengear's CM4000 remote console servers come in 8-, 16-, and 48-port models, and are powered by an ARM-based system-on-chip processor running an embedded uClinux kernel along with software from the Open KVM (okvm) and other open source projects. (more…)

Four companies have collaborated on a Linux-based 3G smartphone reference design that will be demonstrated next week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The production-ready platform showcases “advanced 3G” and multimedia services including UMTS/EDGE voice/video calls, video streaming, web-browsing, ultra-fast multimedia, 3D-audio, and 3D-gaming. (more…)

Stealth Computer is shipping a compact, rugged, PC-compatible system that supports embedded Linux. The LPC-401FS runs fanless, thanks to the use of a mobile Celeron processor along with an extruded aluminum chassis that serves as a heat sink. (more…)

Economic pressures are driving telecom equipment manufacturers to abandon proprietary platforms in favor of modular, standardized architectures that reduces costs and development time, according to a new Intel whitepaper. The paper reviews Intel's efforts to standardize multiple levels of telecom infrastructure, with technologies such as AdvancedTCA and Carrier Grade Linux. (more…)

IPTV 2005, a one-day conference focused on emerging technology and product development in the IPTV industry, is scheduled for April 26 in San Jose, California. With IPTV poised for “explosive growth” over the next several years, component suppliers, OEMs, and telcos must place bets right now on the right technologies (more…)

TimeSys Corp. announced today that its OSDL-registered Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 2.0 reference distribution for PowerPC has also become the first embedded Linux distribution to conform to LSB version 1.3. The Linux Standards Base (LSB) aims to promote Linux interoperability and combat “fragmentation,” or fracturing into non-interoperable forks. (more…)