LinuxDevices.com's roving reporter returned with photos and presentation slides from last night's SDForum meeting in Palo Alto, where mobile Linux experts Bill Weinberg (OSDL), Benoit Schillings (Trolltech), and John Cook (Access/Palmsource) teamed up on a presentation… (more…)

It's official: mini-ITX is making a “huge splash” in the single-board computer (SBC) market, according to embedded-industry analyst firm VDC. Sales of the small, low-power, low-heat boards with rich PC I/O have grown at a compound annual rate of 22.5 percent over the last four years, VDC figures. (more…)

[Updated Oct. 11] — McObject is shipping a “micro-footprint” version of its dual-licensed Java object database. The company says Perst Lite works with Sun's J2ME (Java 2, micro edition), yet retains “most of the features” of Perst, including a variety of index options, collections methods, and ACID transactions. (more…)

Imagination Technologies will tout its newest graphics cores for SoCs (system-on-chip processors), and discuss the Khronos Group's two parallel OpenGL ES (embedded subset) standards, in a talk entitled, “The world's first OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile GPU core” at the Microprocessor Forum next week in San… (more…)

Whole-house stereo specialist Russound used embedded Linux as the basis of its first media server. The SMS3 is a hard-drive-based media server for standalone or multi-zone use. (more…)

Three mobile Linux experts presented the “State of Linux on Mobile Devices” at an SDForum meeting last night in Palo Alto, Calif.. The presenters were Bill Weinberg, head of the OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative, Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings, and Access/PalmSource senior product marketing director John Cook. (more…)

Renesas is sampling a multimedia application processor aimed at portable media players, video-VoIP devices, and TV-enabled navigation systems. The SH-MobileR SH7722 integrates a 266MHz SH4AL-DSP core with hardware terrestrial digital broadcast (DVB-T) codecs. (more…)

A Linux-based home multimedia distribution system generated the loudest buzz at this year's CEDIA (custom electronic design and installation association) trade show, according to Computer Reseller News, which has published a feature article previewing Monster's ultra-high-end “Einstein”… (more…)

French start-up Trango Systems is demonstrating ARM926 and XScale versions of its hypervisor technology at the ARM Developers' Conference this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The Trango Hypervisor divides a single core into multiple virtual processors, enabling multiple execution environments to run securely, side-by-side, the company says. (more…)

Wyse Technology has introduced what it claims to be the industry's first family of high-speed, WiFi-enabled thin clients. The Wireless V-Class thin clients, available with an embedded Linux OS, simplify installation because the only required connection is power, according to the company. (more…)

Linux has not reached maturity as a mobile phone OS, Nokia's head of corporate strategy, Jarkko Sairanen, reportedly said recently. Cited shortcomings include a fragmented implementation landscape that keeps developers away, and too large a memory footprint. However, Nokia may re-think its position on Linux in the future, an interview published by ZDNet-Asia suggests. (more…)

Representatives of Access/PalmSource, Trolltech, and the OSDL will speak on the “State of Linux on Mobile Devices,” in Palo Alto, Calif. at 6:30 P.M. tonight. The meeting will feature presentations by Bill Weinberg, head of OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative, Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings, and Access/PalmSource product strategy director John Cook. (more…)

Embedded Linux developer services specialist TimeSys has launched a “LinuxLink” subscription offering that supports designs based on a $6, ARM9-based Atmel microcontroller (MCU). The AT91SAM9260 has a 200MIPS (million instructions per second) ARM926EJ-S core with onboard flash and SRAM, is pin-compatible with Atmel's ARM7-based MCUs, and targets real-time control applications. (more…)

The GNU telephony project reports that GPL-licensed implementations of two key security protocols are available for use in Linux-based VoIP (voice-over-IP) devices and softphones. Additionally, a GPL-licensed softphone based on the new implementations is already available for download, testing, and use. (more…)

Kirk Murrin of Linux Guru Consulting has published a clever-looking hack that adds a web interface to mconfig. The hack aims to let users configure and build Linux kernels remotely, access kernel and driver documentation, and even use browser forms to add and edit source files. (more…)