Did you miss out on the LinuxWorld 2006 conference and expo held last month in San Francisco? Well, we have some good news for you: the show management has posted all of the keynote talks online for free public viewing. (more…)

Samsung says it is developing 40nm process technology, with the aim of producing flash memory chips up to 32 gigabit (Gb) in capacity. Several such chips could soon be combined in memory cards up to 64 gigabytes (GB), the company says. The chips use patent-pending “Charge Trap Flash” (CTF) technology. (more…)

Portwell is shipping a ruggedized ATX board with a “Core 2 Duo” socket said to support “all Intel mainstream desktop processors.” The Ruby-9716VGAR features an LGA-775 processor socket, along with PCI Express, gigabyte Ethernet, and SATA interfaces. (more…)

Embedded software companies selling only development tools face challenges ahead, according to Venture Development Corp. The research firm's recently released report on the embedded software development tools market warns that the market for “unbundled” software development tools such as compilers and debuggers is expected to undergo little if any growth. (more…)

A series of one-day trade shows on embedded systems and real-time computing will be held during the next four months in cities around the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The Real-Time and Embedded Computing Conference (RTECC) events will include embedded Linux sessions and demonstrations. (more…)

This whitepaper examines the market potential for hardware add-in cards that interface open telephony systems with the PSTN (public switched telephone network). It also looks at trends driving businesses to adopt IP telephony systems based on several popular open source PBXs. (more…)

Motorola is readying a slim, Linux-based PDA phone, according to several sources around the web. The E690, a tri-band GSM phone with QVGA touchscreen and 2 megapixel camera, will reportedly ship to China Mobile customers at an unspecified time. (more…)

Foreword: This whitepaper examines the market potential for hardware add-in cards that interface open telephony systems with the PSTN (public switched telephone network). It also looks at the trends driving businesses to adopt IP telephony systems, and at various popular open source PBXs and other tools. (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. Enjoy . . . ! (more…)

OpenClovis will present a series of free (with registration), hour-long webinars for system architects and engineers interested in applying its commercially supported open-source high availability middleware within telecommunications products. The first webinar, set for Tues., Sept. (more…)

IP STB (internet protocol set-top box) specialist Softier is demonstrating a new Linux-based model at the IBC tradeshow this week in Amsterdam. The Wave-400 runs Linux on a Texas Instruments (TI) Davinci RISC/DSP chip, and can be customized using Javascript and other web technologies, Softier says. (more…)

Belgian embedded Java specialist /k/ (pronounced “kah”) will release its entire Java runtime environment for embedded systems under a BSD-like open source license. The company's Mika Java VM targets resource-constrained embedded systems, including headless and MMU-less systems running uClinux. (more…)

The current draft of GPLv3 includes controversial language forbidding DRM-locked embedded operating systems, but compromise remains possible, suggests ExtremeTech columnist Victor Loy in an insightful look at the GPL's role in device development. (more…)

AMD's PIC (personal Internet computer), an inexpensive Windows CE-based computer aimed at developing nations, has successfully booted Linux, according to a Siamese Wiki devoted to the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) initiative. (more…)

Acrosser has introduced a new fanless mini-ITX motherboard based on ULV (ultra-low-voltage) Celeron processors. With its built-in Via UniChrome Pro 2D/3D graphics and MPEG2 and MPEG4 hardware acceleration, the AR-B1693 is suitable for a wide range of multimedia applications, according to the company. (more…)