A free, interactive webinar on interoperable communications platforms will take place in two weeks. Co-presented by five industry standards bodies, the webinar is entitled “Working together to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms.” It is set for Thurs., May 24, at 2PM EDT / 11AM PDT. (more…)

CompuLab is shipping a processor module targeting real-time and telecommunications applications, or, with an optional multimedia co-processor, HMI (human-machine interface) applications. The CM-F82 is based on a PowerQUICC II processor, with optional Intel 2700G coprocessor, and is available preinstalled with Gentoo… (more…)

Motorola will demonstrate communications servers based on Linux and other open standards at the GlobalComm trade show, June 4-8 in Chicago. Faster ATCA switch fabrics and MicroTCA products will help drive adoption of modular, COTS (commercial off-the-shelf), open-standards based systems into data… (more…)

Samsung has shipped a new Linux-based smartphone in China. The SCH-i819 targets Chinese business travelers, and is the first Linux phone to support dual-band cellular operation with both CDMA 1x (800MHz) and dual-band GSM (900/1800MHz) networks, according to Mizi Research, which supplied the phone's Linux stack. (more…)

Mizi Research is shipping a new version of its Linux software stack for mobile phones. Prizm 2.5 adds support for one-handed operation, support for new streaming media formats, and the option of a Flash-based dynamic user interface. (more…)

Production Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton says Linux may be getting “buggier,” and if he can prove it, he'll decree a “bug fix-only kernel cycle,” according to an article at ZDNet UK. However, Morton's definition of “bug” is quite broad, observes Linux-Watch columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. (more…)

FPGA (field programmable gate array) vendor Altera is shipping a new version of its FGPA design tool that runs on Linux hosts. Quartus II 6.0 includes new features aimed at high-density designs, including today's 90-nm designs as well as forthcoming 65-nm designs, the company says. (more…)

Intel will ship its second-generation dual-core processors for desktop and mobile applications in Q3, 2006. Both desktop and mobile versions will be known as “Core 2 Duo” chips, and both will share a common microarchitecture, to simplify software optimization across a variety of target hardware platforms, Intel says. (more…)

Applications are due today for Google's “Summer of Code” 2006, a program in which selected student developers will earn stipends and receive mentoring in exchange for contributing to open source software projects. Mentors are available from 102 projects, including several related to embedded Linux. (more…)

Ezurio is shipping a USB Bluetooth adapter suitable for embedded and industrial applications. The “High Speed USB Adapter” uses less power, has greater range and interference resistance, and a wider operating temperature range than consumer-grade Bluetooth radios, the company says. (more…)

An industrial control system vendor that has used embedded Linux in commercial products for more than 10 years will ship in July a new Debian-based system based on a 3.5-inch single-board computer (SBC) with a Pentium-class processor. (more…)

A detailed, highly technical introduction to Flash memory, focusing on NAND flash, has been published by CommsDesign. The article was excerpted from a paper presented at this year's Embedded Systems Conference by Jim Cooke, a principal applications engineer at Micron. (more…)

The Nokia 770 “does little, and not very well,” writes Washington Post Personal Technology Columnist Rob Pegoraro, in a scathing review. Pegoraro lambastes the 770 on all fronts, while grudgingly admitting that some of the time, it works okay for surfing the Web. (more…)

“Devicescape's GPLed driver does promise to make Linux WiFi support easier, [but] don't think for a moment that it will quickly make adding WiFi support to Linux a snap,” writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, in a thoughtful Linux-Watch column outlining challenges facing Linux WiFi subsystem developers. (more…)

TimeSys will present a series of free, hour-long, technical webinars on cross-development this month. Each session will explore cross-compilation and build challenges, highlight TimeSys tools for addressing these challenges, and enable live interaction with technical experts from TimeSys, according to the company. (more…)