Via's Pico-ITX motherboard form factor may be bound for glory. The form factor has been adopted by the Small Form Factor SIG (special interest group), a group of board and connector vendors planning to add a stackable high-density expansion interface to the tiny motherboard form factor. (more…)

[Updated: Apr. 4] — A Minsk, Belarus-based provider of Linux-based product development services has announced two logic controller design wins. Promwad has delivered a data acquisition controller for automated power monitoring systems using PLC (Power Line Communications), and has also produced a board… (more…)

IBM DeveloperWorks has published the second in a two-part series on the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment (PDE). Chris Aniszczyk's “Plug-in Development 101, Part 2” provides tips and techniques on building rich-client applications with Eclipse plugins, including advice on launching and branding tasks. (more…)

A startup called Myka is accepting orders for a Linux-based device that downloads, stores, and plays BitTorrent media files on an attached TV. Myka's TorrentTV offloads BitTorrent peer-to-peer duties from a PC platform, easing the process of displaying “Torrents” on a TV. (more…)

Nokia announced a WiMAX version of its Linux-based Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Aside from the new WiMAX radio, the WiMAX Edition appears to offer identical hardware to the original N810, but offers a pre-installed version of Nokia's new Linux-based “Tablet OS2008” operating system (OS). (more…)

Accompanied by two dozen partners with prototype designs based on its new chips, Intel today announced five models in its new “Centrino Atom” line of mobile and embedded processors. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com will end its eighth-annual Embedded Linux Market Survey soon, and invites all readers to participate. Don't miss this opportunity to help shape the industry in which you work, by answering 22 quick questions about developer preferences and industry trends. (more…)

The Linux Foundation (LF) has published a study on Linux mainline kernel development. According to LF, the number of Linux kernel developers has tripled since 2005, with many more companies contributing to the process (including, potentially, the latest new LF member, Adobe). (more…)

Optical character recognition (OCR) vendor Abbyy USA has upgraded its mobile-device OCR software development kit (SDK) with support for East Asian languages. The Linux-compatible Mobile OCR SDK 2.5 adds Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) support, as well as improved image correction capabilities, says Abbyy. (more…)

U.S.-based PC vendor Everex has announced plans to offer a WiMAX-enabled version of its mini-notebook. The “CloudBook Max” will feature a mobile WiMAX radio chip supplied by GCT Semiconductor, and will work with Sprint's high-speed XOHMwireless network, Everex said. (more…)

Xilinx is sampling what appears to be its most powerful FPGA (field-programmable gate array) yet. Designed for high-end communications applications such as wireless base-stations, the PowerPC 440-based Virtex-5 FXT FPGA is the fastest in the company's 65nm Virtex-5 line, with DSP performance of over 190 GMACs. (more…)

Via has announced a motherboard with an unusual 7.5 x 5.6 inch footprint, matching that of a standard optical disk drive. The NAS 7800 runs Linux on a 1.5GHz C7 processor, and targets storage devices with up to eight SATA drives. (more…)

A December 2007 survey claims there are 255 million wireless users in the U.S., representing an increase of over 22 million from the year before. The study also said that in the last six months of 2007, wireless service revenues reached $71 billion. (more…)

VirtualLogix has updated the Intel Architecture (IA) version of its embedded virtualization stack, which targets performance-critical telecom and datacom applications. VLX for Network Infrastructure (VLX-NI) 3.0 adds support for Intel VT-d (virtualization technology for directed I/O), Microsoft Windows guests, and Core Microarchitecture 3.0, while adding new Eclipse-based set-up tools. (more…)