Embedded Linux OS hackers are invited to a free online tools demo next week. The demo features commercial Eclipse-based debugging tools from Ultimate Solutions Inc. (more…)

Motorola's director of Japanese operations has left to join Celunite, a vendor of Linux-based mobile phone software and development services. Tom Okada will serve as VP of sales and business development at Celunite, of Sunnyvale, Calif. (more…)

CellGuide has announced a chip aimed at helping device-makers implement GPS in smartphones and other handhelds at “breakthrough cost.” Called the ACLYS, it's said to minimize dedicated GPS silicon requirements by leveraging existing components in a mobile device. (more…)

The day Linux fans have been waiting for since SCO attacked Linux on May 12, 2003 has finally arrived. U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball has ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns Unix's IP (intellectual property) rights. (more…)

Out-of-band networking specialist MRV Communications introduced a Linux-powered scalable IP KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switch at LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week. The MK-348 is touted as a 48-port IP KVM switch with integrated firewall capabilities, aimed at “high-density data center server farms.”… (more…)

McObject has made available an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) application programming interface (API) for its real-time in-memory embedded database system. The company claims the new feature “greatly expands eXtremeDB's ability to share data with systems ranging from mainframes to servers to desktop applications.” (more…)

Ampro has just added two related products to its computer-on-module (COM) product line. The COM Express-based COM840 and XTX-based XTX840 both feature Core 2 Duo processors and Intel GMAX3100-based graphics. (more…)

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks and AlphaWorks websites. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system and application development. Some require free registration. (more…)

Shenzhen-based Embest Info & Tech has created an embeddable two-board sandwich that combines a tiny ARM9 daughtercard with a “PC/104-compliant” carrierboard. The EM104V1 obtains the bulk of its functionality from the tiny Mini2410-III CPU card, which in turn relies on a highly-integrated Samsung microcontroller. (more…)

Microsoft is going to need a bigger room next year. That's the inevitable take-away from last night's LinuxWorld-related event, once again hosted by Windows Embedded software architect and inveterate blogger Mike Hall. (more…)

A private R&D company in San Diego, Calif., has definitely proven the “Repo Man” axiom that “the more you drive, the less intelligent you are.” Axion Racing is using a Sony PS3 running Linux in an autonomous vehicle said to have driven Colorado's Pikes Peak. (more…)

Embedded Linux provider Wind River has forged a joint development, marketing, and support agreement with Motorola's network equipment division, it says. The “strategic alliance” aims to bring Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) and VxWorks OSes to Motorola's AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA (pictured at left) products. (more…)

SAN FRANCISCO — “Linux is the launching pad you need to stand on to be productive,” said Nokia's open source director, Ari Jaaksi, at LinuxWorld Wednesday. “We have never managed to bring out a product in such a short time, with so few resources,” he added, referring to Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablets. (more…)

[Updated Aug. 14] — Wind River has announced another design win for its Linux distribution targeting consumer electronics. AMX, which sells high-end industrial and home automation systems used in the White House's War Room and elsewhere, will switch its “Modero” touchpanels to Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux… (more…)

MontaVista, one of the first and still-largest vendors of embedded Linux development tools, is conspicuously absent from this year's LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. However, the company has released details about its own “Vision 2007” conference in October, touting it as the “only professionally-run conference focused strictly on embedded Linux.” (more…)