Portwell has announced a single-board computer (SBC) using Intel's Centrino Atom chipset and ECX (embedded compact extended) form factor. Targeting applications such as kiosks and digital signage, the PEB-2736 supports dual displays, has a CompactFlash slot, and accepts an optional TPM (trusted platform module), says Portwell. (more…)

[Updated 4PM] — Gumstix says its tiny ARM-Linux SBCs now support the OpenEmbedded (OE) build environment. In addition to pre-built Linux images, the company now offers a “gumstix-oe” collection of source files and bitbake recipes, for those wishing to use the open source cross-compilation environment. (more…)

Trolltech announced that Valgrind won first prize and Synergy and Vim won second prizes in its inaugural Qt Open Source Development Awards honoring the best open-source development tools. In other news, Trolltech announced first quarter earnings of about $11 million US. (more…)

The Italian firm CompuMaster has introduced a compact thin client that runs Linux. The “Praim Ino” can be mounted on the back of a monitor, draws just six Watts, and comes with a variety of client software, the company says. (more…)

Atmel is now sampling an ARM9-based system-on-chip (SoC) that runs Linux and targets “power-constrained applications that also need high performance.” The AT91SAM9G20 consumes a maximum of 80mW, has twice the clock speed of its predecessor, four times the cache, and a host of standard interfaces. (more…)

Red Hat announced that a European branch of the the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has implemented its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Network. NYSE Euronext is using RHEL for key components of its “mission-critical,” high-speed financial trading environments, Red Hat said. (more…)

Opengear is integrating the popular Nagios open-source network and device monitoring software in its open-source, uClinux-based remote access equipment. Opengear's SDT (“secure desktop tunneling”) for Nagios product combines its SDT Connector remote access client software with Nagios… (more…)

[Updated: May 15, 2008] — Marvell is sampling three low-power system-on-chips (SoCs) that clock up to 1.2GHz, and target networking applications. The dual-core MV78200 and single-core MV78100 and MV76100 are based on Marvell's ARMv5TE-compliant Feroceon core, and are available with a development board and… (more…)

[Updated May 15] — Verizon Wireless has chosen Linux as its “platform of choice,” it said. Starting with feature phones in 2009, followed by iPhone competitors, Verizon will offer Linux phones compliant with specifications from the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo), an industry group it and seven other companies joined today. (more…)

The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) has announced 46 winners out of 1,788 submissions for the first round of the Google Android Developer Challenge. Each winner earns $25,000, with the chance to compete for awards of $275,000 and $100,000 in later rounds. (more…)

Adaptec has announced a new family of entry-level RAID controllers that support RAID 0, 1, and 10. The Series 2 RAID controllers ship with open-source Linux drivers and are designed for controlling low-cost SATA and SAS disk and tape-drive systems, says the company. (more…)

Wind River Systems has joined the OpenSAF Foundation, which aims to standardize high-availability (HA), open-source middleware for Linux-based carrier-grade systems. Wind River will contribute to the OpenSAF project, joining founding members Emerson Network Power (ENP), Ericsson, HP, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sun Microsystems. (more…)

Thin client vendor Bosanova has announced an alliance with Ericom Software, in which the former's hardware products will be bundled with the latter's client software. Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect clients provide access to Windows terminal servers, hypervisors such as VMWare or XenServer, and legacy hosts, says Bosanova. (more…)

Free Electrons has published an amazing multimedia re-cap of CELF's Embedded Linux Conference, which took place Apr. 14-18 in Mountain View, Calif. Featuring video transcripts, slides, and detailed notes from 22 talks, the article offers something for every Linux device developer or user. (more…)

MEN Micro has introduced a new COM (computer-on-module) standard, along with two Linux-compatible modules based on it. With resistance to extreme vibration and temperatures, ESMexpress targets harsh environments such as railways, and is available initially in PowerQUICC and Intel Atom-based versions. (more…)