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…)

Motorola today sent out a mass email inviting recipients to “experience” its Linux-based RAZR2 V8 phone “at your nearest mobile phone store.” The phone will be offered by all major U.S. GSM/GPRS providers, including AT&T (formerly Cingular), Sprint, and T-Mobile, according to reports.

TimeSys has published the final installment in its podcast series devoted to real-time capabilities in the Linux 2.6 kernel. Probably the most informative and well-organized episode yet, the new podcast provides fascinating insight and perspective on seven new real-time capabilities added to Linux between the 2.6.0 and 2.6.22.2 releases. (more…)

SanDisk has expanded its solid-state drive (SSD) product line with a module a quarter the size of 1.8-inch hard drives. The flash-based uSSD 5000 is designed to be embedded on the motherboards of low-cost PCs, such as Intel's Classmate, or other consumer devices. (more…)

A company maintaining a dual-licensed Linux distribution for x86-based routers has achieved a new release. Vyatta Community Edition 2.2 (“Camarillo”) features security and flexibility enhancements to the BGP (border gateway protocol) stack, and usability enhancements related to NAT (network address translation) and DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol). (more…)

Chipmaker Freescale today announced that its top-of-the-line system-on-chip (SoC) for telematics applications such as in-car infotainment and driver assist devices has attracted a broad range of support from embedded development tool and RTOS (real-time operating system) vendors. Five software partners have endorsed the MPC5121e SoC since its introduction in May, promising to deliver products tailored to… (more…)

In what promises to boost video quality in desktop, mobile, and embedded devices, Adobe announced that it has added H.264 support to its popular Flash Player software. “Flash Player 9, Update 3 beta,” available for download from Adobe's Labs website, supports Linux, OS X, and Windows. (more…)

A third of U.S. households will migrate to mobile-only phone services by 2011, resulting in an annual loss of $13 billion in fixed-line voice revenues to wireless substitutions, In-Stat forecasts. However, technologies are available to create next-generation “converged voice services” (CVS) that can breathe new life into fixed-line networks, the market research firm suggests. (more…)

The largest company involved in the market for embedded Linux operating systems, tools, and professional services has acquired a Romanian device software services provider for $1.4 million. Wind River said Comsys employs 52, and has domain expertise telecom, mobile, and aerospace and defense. (more…)

TapRoot Systems is demonstrating its telephony middleware for Linux/Qtopia-based mobile phones at the Linux Mobile Communications Conference this week in Beijing. The company says its TapRoot telephony middleware provides a “comprehensive” set of APIs (application programming interfaces) for communication with 2G-3G networks. (more…)