Palm, best known for Treo smartphones powered by Palm OS and Windows Mobile, is likely to ship Linux phones this year, confirmed CEO Ed Colligan today at Palm's “Analyst and Investor Day.” Palm's Linux platform will add reliability, performance, and stability to Palm's smartphones, Colligan said. (more…)

The non-profit group defining the over-the-air (OTA) digital TV tuner standard now mandatory for U.S. TVs has announced plans for a “mobile/handheld” standard. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) hopes its ATSC-M/H (mobile/handheld) standard will help broadcasters deliver video and data content to handheld devices, laptop computers, and fast-moving vehicles. (more…)

Device makers and software/middleware vendors are among those encouraged to attend, sponsor, present, and/or exhibit at a new conference devoted to Internet TV. The iTV Technology Conference targets business and technical decision makers, and is set for July 17 in San Jose, Calif. (more…)

All tier one mobile phone manufacturers are “involved with Linux on some level,” with openness, flexibility, and developer affinity rather than cost driving interest, IMS Research reports. Additionally, the high variability of separate vendors' implementations will not impede Linux adoption over the long term, according to the firm's latest research. (more…)

A search engine designed specifically to index software program source code has been integrated with SourceForge.net. Krugle's Web-based tool aims to enable developers to search the source code of some 145,000 open source projects hosted at SourceForge. (more…)

Digi subsidiary MaxStream unveiled a next-generation ZigBee wireless communications module series at the Embedded Systems Conference last week. The 2.4GHz XBee Series 2 implements full mesh networking with self-discovery and self-healing capabilities, in addition to basic ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 functions for low-end… (more…)

Embedded Linux development services specialist TimeSys has hired a highly accomplished CEO. Atul Bansal previously served as founding CEO and COO of Linux device-maker Laurel Networks, which sold for $88M in 2004 to Israeli telecom giant ECI. (more…)

The Debian project has released a new version of its Linux- and GNU-based operating system distribution. Debian 4.0, aka “Etch,” is available for 11 architectures, including Alpha, AMD64, ARM, HP-PA/RISC, x86, IA-64, MIPS, MIPS (DEC), PowerPC, S/390, and SPARC. (more…)

Motorola has shipped its millionth Internet Protocol set-top box (IP-STB), it announced last Friday. Linux has been the embedded software platform in “about 80 percent” of these devices, a company spokesperson said. (more…)

Flash memory and consumer device specialist SanDisk is shipping the first portable multimedia player (PMP) able to download music directly via WiFi, without the use of a PC. The “Sansa Connect,” which runs embedded Linux and Mono, connects directly to online music services via WiFi, according to sources. (more…)

Real-time Linux and microkernel software specialist Sysgo on April 5 revealed plans to support hardware virtualization features built into AMD's multi-core embedded processors. Sysgo's PikeOS microkernel for AMD processors equipped with “AMD-V” hardware will run Linux and/or Windows alongside real-time POSIX applications, the company said. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com's sixth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey is currently under way. 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…)

A new WinSystems PC/104-Plus format single-board computer (SBC) operates over a -40 to +85 degree C temperature range without active cooling. The “PPM-GX” is based on the low-power, high-integration AMD [email protected] processor, and runs Linux, among other embedded operating systems, according to the company. (more…)

SSV has added a new model to its line of miniature ARM-based single-board computers (SBCs) designed to fit into IC-style sockets. The DIL/NetPC ADNP/9200 measures 3.2 x 1.4 inches, comes with Linux, and targets industrial routers, switches, firewalls, and gateways requiring dual Ethernet ports. (more…)

Kontron debuted nine new board-level products at the Embedded Systems Conference this week, covering a broad landscape of embedded computing form-factors, old and new. Among these, “MOPS-PM” is claimed to be the first Pentium M processor board to comply with the PC/104-Plus standard's real estate boundaries. (more…)