[Updated Mar. 7] — An Australian consulting company specializing in software reverse engineering is demonstrating its capabilities by analyzing popular open source projects, such as the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) today announced the recipients of its 2006 “Platinum and Gold” awards, which rate non-product characteristics of vendors of computer boards targeting companies building embedded systems and devices. Ten board vendors were awarded Platinum status, and twenty were awarded Gold status in this year's ratings. (more…)

Italian embedded software specialist KDev is shipping Linux-based firmware for a tiny RISC-based SBC (single-board computer) available with a Tux-shaped case. Kdev's FoxServe firmware for the Acme Fox SBC provides a dynamic web server environment, including Apache, PHP, SQLite, SSL/TLS… (more…)

Trolltech has loosened key licensing restrictions on its user-modifiable Linux-based mobile phone for open source software developers. Users of the Greenphone will no longer be restricted to running Qtopia software on the device, nor to using the device only in its supplied… (more…)

Access Systems Americas (formerly PalmSource) is showing off its device-oriented mobile Linux OS and Eclipse-based toolsuite at the EclipseCon conference this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The company's Access Linux Platform (ALP) is available now, while its ALP Development Suite based on Eclipse and CDT is sampling. (more…)

MontaVista says its device-oriented Linux operating system was used in two new 3G business smartphones from Italian handset designer Enteos. The Italian handset designer and manufacturer reportedly used MontaVista Linux Consumer Edition in forthcoming iGo 730 and LinAP smartphones. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. (more…)

Kontron has introduced the second in its series of EPIC format single-board computers (SBCs) targeting embedded applications. (more…)

Sean Moss-Pultz and Mickey Lauer revealed interesting details about their “OpenMoko” open-source phone software project, at O'Reilly's “Etel” (emerging telephony) conference this week. (more…)

Trolltech has done a lot of things right, in terms of making it easy for open source developers to write Qtopia applications. However, the company's unlocked, open Greenphone is hampered by counterproductive end-user license agreement (EULA) terms, concludes a review of the phone at… (more…)

Less than two weeks after launching its Linux-based “single core” U900 phone aimed at the mid-range market, Grundig Mobile has introduced another Linux-powered smartphone. (more…)

Taiwanese board- and system-builder Lanner Electronics is sampling a 2U network appliance that supports Cavium's interesting multi-core MIPS64-compatible network processing units (NPUs). (more…)

[Updated Feb. 19, 2008] — Canadian board-maker Techsol is offering a tiny industrial gateway preloaded with Linux, along with a lightweight JRE (Java runtime environment). The Gateway Express uses the company's SA2410 Medallion CPU module, draws under two watts, and is available with IBM WebSphere… (more…)

The worldwide market for “converged mobile devices” topped 80 million units in 2006, up an impressive 42 percent over 2005 shipments, according to a new study from IDC. In the fourth quarter, vendors shipped a total of 23.5 million devices, 33.5 percent more than the same quarter a year ago, IDC says. (more…)

TeamF1 is offering a customizable routing software stack for Linux that targets gateway applications in the SMB (small-medium business) market. The Secure Gateway Solution (SGS) stack supports PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and other architectures, and comprises a configurable mix of VPN (virtual private networking), firewall, router, and interface components. (more…)