A European vendor of multi-service broadband gateways has used Linux and a handful of Texas Instruments (TI) silicon to build a neat-looking WiFi tablet capable of delivering IP-TV wirelessly throughout the home. (more…)

A provider of Linux-based mobile phone software and development services has announced that its founder will keynote the Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) Conference in Madrid. Celunite CEO Mahesh Veerina will join first-morning plenary session keynoters from Nokia, Access, Red Hat, Motorola, Telecom Italia, and HP. (more…)

Four technical leaders in the embedded software and tools market will discuss multi-core enablement in an epic two-hour forum at the first-ever Power.org developer's conference later this month. On the table will be several factors impeding broader adoption of multicore in embedded, organizers say. (more…)

Intel has agreed to sell some of its telecom server platform product lines, teams, and inventory to long-time partner RadiSys. The nearly $32 million deal encompasses ATCA, cPCI, and legacy products, but not carrier-grade rack-mounted servers nor actual processors and other… (more…)

Virtual Cogs has started shipping a new board-level product for developers of customized, Linux-powered portable gaming consoles and remote control devices. The Portable Computing Cog (PC Cog) expands the company's i.MX21-based VC21 design, adding an LCD module, battery and charger, joysticks and buttons, and audio… (more…)

A year after acquiring ATI, AMD has pledged to open up ATI's flagship Radeon GPUs (graphics processing units) to open source developers. The company plans to release “information and development packages” next week for two ATI GPU families, including one targeting embedded applications such as thin clients and single-board computers. (more…)

Broadcom is sampling a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) for cable, satellite, and IP set-top boxes (STBs). Built on outsourced 65nm process technology, the BCM7405 “STB-on-a-chip” is based on a 400MHz MIPS32/16e processor core, runs Linux, and supports numerous video compression standards as well as networked personal video recorder (PVR) functionality. (more…)

Amino has ported Opera Software's Opera 8.5 browser for devices to an Intel XScale chip targeting digital video recorders (DVRs) and other multimedia equipment. Opera for Intel's CE 2110 media processor is initially available in Amino's Linux-based IntActT IPTV stack, with Opera also working on a port, it said. (more…)

Cisco's consumer products division is shipping a successor to the Linux-based NSLU2 (aka “SLUG”) consumer NAS (network-attached storage) appliance, one of the most-hacked devices ever. The NAS200 has room for two internal SATA drives, supports FAT32-formatted external USB 2.0 drives, and comes with UPnP media-sharing… (more…)

A business conference in San Francisco this week is using Sony's Playstation3 running Linux to drive flat-panel displays showing conference announcements. Organizers of the Office 2.0 conference note that when running Firefox under Linux, the PS3 can deliver web-based productivity applications in… (more…)

Microprocessor IP (intellectual property) vendor ARM Ltd. has successfully established a joint venture in China, as part of an investment in Shenzhen-based embedded specialist Embest Info and Tech Co. Embest previously helped localize ARM's RealView MDK (microcontroller development kit) and distribute it in China. (more…)

Bangalore-based Mistral Software has started shipping a Linux-based development kit for TI's ARM11-based SoC (system-on-chip). The OMAP2430 Starter Kit (OSK) targets wireless application development, and includes a 2.6.19 Linux kernel, open-source bootloader, JFFS2… (more…)

XenSource has started shipping an “embedded” version of its hypervisor for AMD and Intel processors. XenExpress OEM Edition targets server vendors and other OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) interested in delivering systems pre-installed with multiple BIOS partitions, and thus ready for the installation of multiple virtual machines. (more…)

Gumstix has started shipping an LCD expansion board for its tiny, Linux-oriented, PXA270-based Verdex single-board computer (SBC). Combined with the cellular networking and GPS daughter cards shipped last month, the “consoleLCD-vx” could help the Verdex board appeal to OEM, educational, and DIY mobile phone hobbyists. (more…)

What will “4G” (fourth generation) wireless technology be? No one quite knows yet, and it will take three or four years to deploy, according to a new report by research firm In-Stat. (more…)