A smaller, lighter, faster, less expensive, x86-compatible version of the Linux-based Pepper Pad web tablet will ship in August. The third-generation Pepper Pad 3 has moved to an AMD Geode processor, and is said to offer better performance, battery life, and other improvements. (more…)

TimeSys is shipping a major update to the Eclipse-based tools available with its subscription-based online service for embedded Linux developers. The LinuxLink Developer Suite, based on Eclipse 3.1 and CDT 3.0.1 (C Development Tool), is available as an add-on to existing LinuxLink customers, or as part of LinuxLink “Developer Edition.” (more…)

A small consulting company is shipping an inexpensive add-on board targeting software-defined radio (SDR) projects. Ettus Research's $550 Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) supports Linux and GNU Radio software, and is available with RF modules and antennas covering virtually the entire radio spectrum. (more…)

A smaller, lighter, faster, less expensive version of the Linux-based Pepper Pad web tablet will ship in August. The third-generation Pepper Pad 3 has moved to an x86-compatible AMD Geode processor, and is said to offer better performance, battery life, and other improvements. (more…)

A science-fiction cyber-thriller centering around — and partially written on — a Sharp Zaurus PDA running Linux is now available in paperback from Amazon.com. Digital Life, by Kevin Milne, aims to depict real-life hacking and digital insurgence more accurately than popular… (more…)

The OSDL's next-generation Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) specification has attracted its first registrant. Just three months after the release of the CGL 3.2 spec — the first “registerable” release in the CGL 3.x series — FSMLabs yesterday completed CGL 3.2 registration for its RTCore x86-64 Enhanced Carrier Grade Linux (E-CGL). (more…)

Texas Instruments will license and support MontaVista Linux directly, as part of a digital video development kit supporting its DaVinci RISC/DSP processors. TI's DaVinci Technology Development Kit (TDK) for digital video applications will also include software integration and system visualization technology, and is expected to ship in Q3. (more…)

Linux remains the most popular embedded OS, according to data from a recent CMP survey of electronics trade journal readers and Embedded Systems Conference attendees. However, a comparison of 2005 and 2006 survey data shows “open-source enthusiasm waning,” Embedded Systems Design (ESD) editor-in-chief Jim Turley suggests. (more…)

Wind River says its commercial Linux distribution was chosen by Mercury Computer Systems for an ATCA-compliant system for telecom application development, evaluation, and deployment. The Ensemble2 system runs Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition (PNE-LE), and features RapidIO hardware,… (more…)

Panasonic is shipping another Linux-based mobile phone to NTT DoCoMo, for use with DoCoMo's FOMA (“Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access”) 3G network. The P902iS is compatible with DoCoMo's Chaku-Uta music download service, and supports 2GB miniSD cards for storage of up to 1000 songs. (more…)

MontaVista has hired veteran computer industry executive Thomas F. Kelly as president, CEO, and chairman of its board of directors. Kelly replaces MontaVista founder James Ready, who remains with the company as CTO, and who will retain a seat on its board of directors. (more…)

In a move calculated to expand Carrier Grade Linux's (CGL's) developer and user communities, HP has registered Debian's “Sarge” distribution with version 2.02 of the OSDL's CGL specification, and started a Carrier Grade subproject within Debian. Debian-CGL offers an intermediary choice between commercial CGL distributions and “rolling your own,” according to the OSDL. (more…)

Nokia has ported the Apache webserver to Symbian, in order to enable mobile phones to serve content on the World Wide Web. Many mobile phones today have more processing power than early Internet servers, suggesting that “there really is no reason anymore why webservers could not reside on mobile phones,” according to the company. (more…)

Several companies and organizations involved with embedded Linux have been named to the SD Times's annual list of software industry market leaders and influencers. Enea came out atop the “Embedded and Mobile” category, where Wind River also received a mention. Other picks include Eclipse.org, Apache.org, and the Free Software Foundation. (more…)

This brief article highlights key findings from a recent survey of 467 embedded developers by Venture Development Corp. (VDC). Also discussed are findings from recent VDC research on vertical markets for embedded technologies, including mobile phones, automotive… (more…)