Wind River's worries

In a recent article in Integrated Communications Design, Mike Downing interviews Curt Schacker, vice president of corporate marketing for Wind River Systems. (more…)

Coming soon, to a public location near you?

Ericsson Business Innovation has announced the “blip,” a small self-contained device that communicates wirelessly with mobile phones, PDAs, and other kinds of mobile devices that are equipped with Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. (more…)

The Bluetooth North America 2001 conference was presented by the World Research Group at San Diego February 21-22, 2001. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group includes Promoter companies 3Com, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and… (more…)

Feature

• ZapMedia ZapStation/Harman Kardon DMC 100, by Don Marti — Java-based “Digital Media Center” plays DVDs, MP3s and more, and it's running Linux. (more…)

A conversation with Stephen DeWitt of Sun Microsystems. (more…)

A hardware and device driver project for Linux.

Bar codes printed on machine-readable labels simplify automatic identification of various things. The Linux kernel device driver module developed by Hewlett-Packard provides serial port access to an HP handheld wand-style bar code reader. (more…)

Technical editor Don Marti shows how the “Hack Embedded Linux” contest provides insight into human needs. (more…)

Stead and Brinks guide us through a quick tour of the hardware included in the Hack Embedded Linux prize kits. (more…)

At LinuxWorld New York in January 2001, Lineo announced the SecureEdge hardware brand, a OEM development platform for fully brandable Linux-based applications and devices. SecureEdge replaces the NETtel product line. The first SecureEdge product available is a VPN Internet router that secures office-wide Internet connections. (more…)

Microsoft describes the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) as an “open source” license, and says it is against the American Way. (more…)

Love letters… PDF format?… even the toaster?… “lightweight” browsers… all that and a shoehorn. (more…)

The skinny on building your own SMS gateway.

GSM (Global System of Mobile Communications) short messages have become tremendously popular in just a few years. Popularity of Short Message Services (SMS) was not foreseen and surprised telecommunication companies, but its popularity had an effect. (more…)

Linux is becoming commodity infrastructure.

In his keynote speech at Macworld Expo in January 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs declared that the PC was not dead, just boring — and that Apple would cease to make their PCs boring by making them “hubs” for people's “digital lifestyles”. (more…)

Check out the recent additions to the Microwindows Project. (more…)

ELJ continues to grow.

This is the second issue of ELJ to hit the newsstand on its own. The excitement started when we did an ELJ supplement attached to our sister publication Linux Journal last year, and it continues to grow. (more…)