The world will learn more about an artificial baby dinosaur at the ARM Developer's Conference two weeks from now in Santa Clara, Calif. There, Ugobe CTO John Sosoka is expected to reveal long-awaited details about the $350 Pleo and it's “Life OS,” which is probably based on Linux. (more…)

American Arium has started shipping an incremental upgrade to its hardware-assisted debugger. SourcePoint 6.5.1 adds better Linux OS-aware debug support with no changes to the user interface, according to the company. (more…)

VirtualLogix will demonstrate an intriguing application for its VLX processor virtualization technology at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) next week in San Francisco. The vendor says its VLX technolgoy can give VoIP softphones, firewalls, and other applications “industry-leading QoS” (quality-of-service) by providing them their own virtual machine on vPro systems. (more…)

PMC-Sierra has started shipping the first two chips in a new line of MIPS-based SoCs (system-on-chip processors) aimed at networked appliances, storage systems, and security devices. The MSP8100 series SoCs are based on 400MHz cores, consume less than 1.5 Watts, and are available with a development board and Linux toolkit. (more…)

German embedded Linux provider Sysgo has appointed a new CEO as an initial step toward implementing an “aggressive global business expansion plan.” Michael Tiedemann is an electronics engineer who served as Sysgo's sales manager for a decade. (more…)

A community developer has ported Linux's KDE desktop environment to Nokia's Internet tablets. The port appears to run on both the N800 and — with the addition of an RS-MMC card upgrade — the older 770 tablet. (more…)

As its ship date nears, the price is rising and the specs dropping on Asus's ultra-low-cost, flash-based Linux notebook, according to reports. The EEE PC (3ePC), introduced at Computex, Taipei in June, is now expected to start at about $250, rather than the $190 originally targeted. (more…)

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford one. That statement likely applies to Bitmicro's new E-Disk Altima E2A3GL, which crams up to 461 GB of flash memory into a standard 2.5-inch hard drive form-factor, and which targets military and industrial applications. (more…)

[Updated Sep. 26] — Embedded systems vendor GE Fanuc has announced a pair of MicroTCA servers that come pre-installed with SUSE Linux. The MP-2000 is a 2U rack-mounted model with 13 slots, while the MP-3000 is an 8U chassis with 15 slots. (more…)

MontaVista plans to offer its commercially supported “real-time” Linux distribution for a pair of forthcoming AMCC SoCs (system-on-chip processors). The PPC405EX and PPC460EX respectively target WLAN and printing/imaging/networking applications, and will be the 22nd and 23rd AMCC chips supported by MontaVista Linux. (more…)

QNX has finally succumbed to growing desire among developers for open, modifiable source code, and opened up the source code for its “Neutrino” RTOS (real-time operating system). Access to the code is free, although commercial deployments will require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for Momentics development seats. (more…)

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced today that it will hold two legal summits over the next 12 months for leading attorneys from open source-oriented companies and the community. Read the complete story at Linux-Watch, (more…)

Access to source code is the “primary motivating factor” in Linux adoption among embedded systems developers, suggests Evans Data Corp. The research firm found that two-thirds of developers surveyed deem source access “very” or “extremely” important, while only five percent thought it “not” important. (more…)

The overall market for embedded operating systems increased more than 20 percent in 2006, according to a new study of the global marketplace by Venture Development Corp. (VDC). However, operating system suppliers are under increasing pressure from Linux, the research firm says. (more…)

Telecom middleware and RTOS provider Enea has joined the Scope Alliance, a group of NEPs (network equipment providers) working to promote the interoperability of cross-vendor COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and software implementations in telecom infrastructure equipment. (more…)