Foreword: This insightful guest column anticipates the emergence of embedded Linux as a key margins driver for the automotive industry, due to its ability to run “driver-assist” applications perceived as “high-value” by consumers. (more…)

Startup a la Mobile reports that its Linux-based mobile phone stack has attracted its first licensee. Gupp Technologies, a Malaysian startup backed by global electronics vendor 3P Electronics, will use the Convergent Linux Platform in a dual-mode VoWiFi (voice-over-WiFi) and GSM smartphone expected next year, according to a la Mobile. (more…)

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

[Updated Oct. 24] — The PepperPad 3 appeals to both computer neophytes and Linux hackers, suggests CarryPad Editor Steve Paine in an enthusiastic mini-review. (more…)

Eurotech has released two PC/104-Plus SBCs with 800MHz Pentium III processors. The CPU-1462 features four USB 2.0 ports, while the CPU-1464 boasts gigabit Ethernet. Both use “unique construction techniques” facilitating structural heat dissipation into the enclosure, and are suitable for extended-temperature and… (more…)

Despite a soft second quarter, both in terms of units and average selling prices, the mobile phone market is expected to achieve shipments of one billion units this year, according to ABI Research. Over 245 million mobile handsets shipped in Q3, and 4Q is expected to be a “bumper quarter,” the market research firm said. (more…)

An “escape hatch” in GPLv3 could pacify Linux kernel hackers and others concerned with anti-DRM language in the proposed license, says Free Software Foundation Europe representative Ciaran O'Riordan. (more…)

What do titanium legos, “meritocric” processes (is that a word??), and Horatio Ableton the cat have in common? They're all part of Access/PalmSource VP of Engineering Michael Kelley's informative and entertaining LinuxWorld presentation, entitled “Beyond the PC: the realization of Linux in the mobile device… (more…)

An open source project maintaining a Linux-based operating system for thin clients has achieved a new release. Thinstation 2.2 runs on off-the-shelf thin clients or superannuated PCs, supports “all major connectivity protocols” and can be configured with a footprint as little as 6MB, a project spokesperson said. (more…)

Red Hat has joined OPUCE, a European telecommunications industry group chartered with building an “open service infrastructure.” The company hopes its JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (aka “JEMS”) will emerge as a core technology for the “service delivery platform” (SDP) being defined by OPUCE. (more…)

Mercury Computer Systems is sampling what it claims to be the first AMC (advanced mezzanine card) based on Intel's Core Duo processor. Mercury also says its AXA-100, which is available with Linux, “doubles the compute resource available in an AMC form factor.” (more…)

[Updated Oct. 20] — Strategic Test is prepping a tiny processor module based on an 806MHz “Monahans P” processor. The 200-pin SODIMM-sized Triton-290 is expected to ship in November with a Linux 2.6-based development kit. (more…)

Fonix Speech has updated its automatic speech recognition (ASR) software that runs on Linux, among other OSes. The company claims that VoiceIn SE 4.1 boosts recognition by 24 percent, to accuracy rates as high as 98 percent, and offers significantly improved recognition accuracy in “noise-saturated” environments. (more…)

WinSystems is shipping an x86-compatible EBX SBC (single-board computer) that runs Linux and targets M2M (machine-to-machine) connectivity applications. The LBC-GX500 is based on an AMD [email protected] processor, and targets industrial automation, transportation, test and measurement, petrochemical, MIL/COTS,… (more…)

Network equipment provider (NEP) RadiSys will resell and support high availability middleware and tools from OpenClovis, “pre-integrating” them with its Promentum family of modular, ATCA-compliant, Linux-based “application-ready” hardware. (more…)