Wind River today announced that after a rigorous, two-day, on-site audit, its customer service team in North America has attained a prestigious support center certification for the second year. The company claims to be the only embedded Linux provider certified under the Service Strategies “Support Center Practices” (SCP) program. (more…)

Signum Systems has started shipping a JTAG emulator tailored for use with TI's recently launched sub-$10 DaVinci SoC (system-on-chip). The JTAGjet-355 USB emulator comes with drivers for native Linux and GNU tools support on TI's TMS320DM355 (DM355) and DVEVM development module, under both Linux and Windows… (more…)

Linux use in future embedded projects will grow 278 percent over that in past projects, among commercial embedded OS users, suggests a recent study from Venture Development Corp. (VDC). Meanwhile, proprietary commercial embedded OS use is holding steady, gaining customers from do-it-yourself OS users, but losing as many to Linux, the analyst firm reports. (more…)

Palm has canceled the Linux-based Foleo mobile companion, CEO Ed Colligan announced today on the company's blog. Colligan said the move would cost the company $10 million in earnings, but allow it to focus on a single Linux smartphone development platform going forward. (more…)

An independent software house in China has added a full-featured HTML browser to its dual-licensed, lightweight graphics framework and window manager. Additionally, Beijing Feynman Software is offering a PMP (portable media player) software reference design based on Linux along with its… (more…)

[Updated Sep. 18] — Texas Instruments (TI) is sampling an ultra low-cost, ARM9-based embedded processor with an integrated high-definition (HD) video encoder. The chipmaker launched its sub-$10 TMS320DM355 SoC (system-on-chip), together with a development board running MontaVista Linux, at the IBC video broadcaster's convention in London this week. (more…)