The flash memory market grew substantially in 2005, driven by demand from consumer and communications applications, according to IC Insights. Interestingly, the NOR and NAND segments headed in opposite directions, with NOR sales declining 13 percent to $8.0 billion, while the NAND segment grew 64 percent to $10.6 billion, the research firm says. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com recently caught up with Roger Kung, founder of Linux smartphone specialist E28 in China. E28 shipped the world's first Linux smartphone, and continues to ship Linux smartphones, with a focus on dual-mode cellular/VoIP (voice-over-IP) designs for MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators)… (more…)

Above-Net, a maker of mobile terminals, will introduce a compact XScale-based single-board computer (SBC) at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif. next week. The TopSBC supports embedded Linux and targets applications such as handheld mobile terminals, POS devices, kiosks, ATMs, and telematics applications,… (more…)

Middleware developer GoAhead on Wednesday announced the beta of a new version of its high availability (HA) software platform, which runs on top of various Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) implementations. SelfReliant 5.0 incorporates the Service Availability Forum's latest Application Interface Specification and Hardware Platform Interface standards, the company said. (more…)

Yesterday, we published an article defining Device Software Optimization (DSO), based on an interview with John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at Wind River, which coined the term. In response to that article, we received a thoughtful “rebuttal” from Christopher Stone, offering a developer's perspective on DSO. (more…)

The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has created a fund to support selected open source projects. The OSDL Fellowship Fund will assist community projects “that don't otherwise have access to financial resources or support,” the group announced Wednesday. (more…)

FSMLabs announced Wednesday that it is shipping SMP (symmetric multi-processing) support for AMD's 64-bit Dual-Core Opteron processors running a real-time extension to BSD Unix. The company announced similar Linux support last summer, and says it has already supplied the BSD version of RTCore to network equipment… (more…)

Foreword: Yesterday, we published an article defining Device Software Optimization (DSO), based on an interview with John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at Wind River, which coined the term. (more…)

The technology industry is replete with TLAs (three-letter acronyms). Two years ago, Wind River added one more, coining the term “Device Software Optimization” (DSO) as a replacement for the term “embedded software” in its marketing efforts. (more…)

Four “special events” will be held concurrently with the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) 2006, next week in San Jose. The “co-located” special events include the Microprocessor Summit, DSO (device software optimization) World, the EE Times Ace Awards, and the D2M (design to manufacturing) conference. (more…)

The technology industry is replete with TLAs (three-letter acronyms). Two years ago, Wind River added one more, coining the term “Device Software Optimization” (DSO) as a replacement for the term “embedded software” in its marketing efforts. (more…)

This technical article explains how Elphel used asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to add advanced features to the user interfaces of its Linux-based network camera family. A unique AJAX architecture leverages a full LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) on the client side, providing richer functionality than a Javascript/XML-enabled browser alone could provide, especially in terms of interaction… (more…)

Jaluna has joined the Eclipse Foundation, and will demonstrate an Eclipse-based tool suite for its platform virtualization software, at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) next week in San Jose. The company's OSware, Linux Edition, targets embedded systems requiring the full functionality of Linux, alongside pre-ported stacks and/or proprietary real-time kernels. (more…)

German embedded board-maker Lippert is shipping its first single-board computer (SBC) in the EPIC form-factor. (more…)

Foreword: This article explains how a small, Utah-based company used asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to add advanced features to the user interfaces in its Linux-based cameras. The article was written by Andrey Filippov, a Russian physicist who emigrated to the US in 1995, and founded Elphel six years later. Enjoy . . . ! (more…)