AlertMe.com is shipping a ZigBee-based security system centered on a Linux-driven Hub. The AlertMe system includes a variety of sensors, fobs, and other devices that link up via wireless ZigBee connections to the Hub, which in turn reports back to AlertMe.Com's servers and the customer. (more…)

Foreword — This hands-on review compares and contrasts two computing appliances that run Linux on Via C7-M processors. The Zonbu Zonbook and the gOS Cloudbook are both manufactured by Everex, and cost about the same up-front, but that's where the resemblances end, our reviewer found. (more…)

Red Hat has announced that its new “real-time” Linux distribution will be used by telecom equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent in communications systems for the SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) market. Red Hat “MRG” (messaging, realtime, and grid) ensures that real-time application threads run at the highest priority, and with minimal interruption, Red Hat said. (more…)

A small start-up based in Seattle has started selling a “self-support” tool for developers working with Java and/or Linux. SourceLabs says its “Self-Support Suite” can quickly identify problems and locate solutions for users of Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Axis, and Tomcat, as well as select Linux applications. (more…)

Avocent is shipping a new line of Linux-based console servers that are said to streamline reconfigurations for remote serially-attached devices. The Cyclades ACS 6000 series supports software configurable cabling pin-outs, and further speeds configuration, says Avocent, by automatically identifying the remote asset… (more…)

[Updated: March 19] — Taiwanese manufacturer Synology has shipped an AJAX-enhanced upgrade to browser-based management software it ships with its hackable Linux-based NAS systems. Disk Station Manager (DSM) 2.0 extends Synology's NAS devices with features such as video surveillance, photo blogging, and game system… (more…)

Fabless semiconductor vendor Staccato Communications has shipped a development kit aimed at helping product designers add its WUSB (wireless USB) chips to mobile handsets, digital cameras, printers, portable media players, mass storage, and wireless audio/video devices. The Ripcord1 Development Kit includes an XScale PXA270-based SBC (single-board computer) running embedded Linux. (more…)

Vyatta announced that its Debian Linux-based x86 routing distribution can scale to environments running at 10Gbps. Vyatta says that PCs running the software can replace 10Gbps-capable systems from proprietary vendors, while costing “a small fraction” of what some vendors charge for 10Gbps add-in cards alone. (more…)

ZigBee and other wireless home automation technologies have zigged and zagged in recent years as they've struggled to achieve success, but the future appears more straightforward, says an ABI Research study. (more…)

Webtide has announced a port of its open source Jetty webserver to the Android mobile phone platform. The i-Jetty technology allows mobile phone users to set up AJAX- and Comet-enabled websites on their Android phones for access via desktop PCs over the web, says Webtide. (more…)

FPGA (field-programmable gate array) vendor Xilinx is shipping a development kit for 10Gbps Ethernet interfaces based on XAUI (pronounced “zowie”). The “Virtex-5 Solution for XAUI” kit includes an FPGA-powered PCIe card with Linux drivers, and targets communications, networking, storage, defense, and… (more…)

As expected, the Eclipse Foundation has formally adopted a community project to implement OSGi (open services gateway initiative) standards for Java application software management on mobile and embedded devices. The “Eclipse Runtime” or “Eclipse RT” project was announced at the organization's annual EclipseCon conference today in Santa Clara, Calif. (more…)

Karlsruhe, Germany based Emtrion has launched a processor module based on a 400MHz SuperH processor, and targeting battery-powered and/or highly integrated devices in harsh industrial environments. (more…)

An industrial computing specialist in Erlangen, Germany has used Linux and a low-powered system-on-chip to build two legacy port servers. Ipcas's “RS232-to-USB” and “Centronics-to-USB” servers let users connect modern USB printers, memory sticks, and Ethernet networks to legacy interfaces on factory and… (more…)

Sonus Networks has updated its IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) middleware stack for carrier infrastructure equipment based on Linux. Updates to the company's SIP (session initiation protocol) implementation and session control components bring compliance with 3GPP's Release 7 IMS specifications, and with SAForum high-availability specifications, the vendor said. (more…)