Utah startup Opengear Inc. unveils its first products this week at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. The CM4000 remote console servers come in 8-, 16-, and 48-port models, and are powered by an ARM-based system-on-chip processor running uClinux along with software from other open source projects. (more…)

Embedded software powerhouse Wind River's metamorphosis into an embedded Linux vendor appears to be complete. The company will announce today that it is shipping a pre-release version of its first embedded Linux distribution, and that it has already delivered 1,000 “developer seats” for the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 (more…)

Trolltech announced today that more than fifty companies are currently developing or shipping Linux-based devices using its Qtopia graphical application platform software, including more than twenty mobile phones. These successes signal “a surge in the market for handsets built on the popular open source Linux operating system,” the company says. (more…)

Having completed its $16M acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS) earlier this month, PalmSource today announced the addition of four former CMS products to its product line. Included among them is PalmSource mFone for Smart Phones, a Linux smartphone software stack that includes a GUI, device drivers, network protocols, development tools, (more…)

Opengear's CM4000 remote console servers come in 8-, 16-, and 48-port models, and are powered by an ARM-based system-on-chip processor running an embedded uClinux kernel along with software from the Open KVM (okvm) and other open source projects. (more…)

Stealth Computer is shipping a compact, rugged, PC-compatible system that supports embedded Linux. The LPC-401FS runs fanless, thanks to the use of a mobile Celeron processor along with an extruded aluminum chassis that serves as a heat sink. (more…)

Four companies have collaborated on a Linux-based 3G smartphone reference design that will be demonstrated next week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The production-ready platform showcases “advanced 3G” and multimedia services including UMTS/EDGE voice/video calls, video streaming, web-browsing, ultra-fast multimedia, 3D-audio, and 3D-gaming. (more…)

Economic pressures are driving telecom equipment manufacturers to abandon proprietary platforms in favor of modular, standardized architectures that reduces costs and development time, according to a new Intel whitepaper. The paper reviews Intel's efforts to standardize multiple levels of telecom infrastructure, with technologies such as AdvancedTCA and Carrier Grade Linux. (more…)

Foreword: Economic pressures are driving telecom equipment manufacturers to abandon proprietary platforms in favor of modular, standardized architectures that reduces costs and development time, according to a new Intel whitepaper. The paper reviews Intel's efforts to standardize multiple levels of telecom infrastructure, with technologies such as AdvancedTCA and Carrier Grade Linux. (more…)

Two new miniature computers from Gumstix Inc. enhance the company's Linux-based family of single-board computers (SBCs) with expanded memory and communications capabilities. The new models add a 92-pin expansion-bus connector to the gumstick-sized 80 x 20 x 6.3 mm Connex family, enabling memory and I/O expansion. (more…)

Elsevier has just published Embedded Systems Architecture, by Tammy Noergaard. The 656-page book provides a broad and in-depth overview of embedded systems architecture, and is suitable for undergraduate embedded systems courses in electronics/electrical engineering and engineering technology, and for corporate training, according to the publisher. (more…)

TimeSys Corp. announced today that its OSDL-registered Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 2.0 reference distribution for PowerPC has also become the first embedded Linux distribution to conform to LSB version 1.3. The Linux Standards Base (LSB) aims to promote Linux interoperability and combat “fragmentation,” or fracturing into non-interoperable forks. (more…)

IPTV 2005, a one-day conference focused on emerging technology and product development in the IPTV industry, is scheduled for April 26 in San Jose, California. With IPTV poised for “explosive growth” over the next several years, component suppliers, OEMs, and telcos must place bets right now on the right technologies (more…)

Sky MobileMedia Inc. has announced the integration of its SKY-MAP software platform with MontaVista's embedded Linux operating system, in an effort to provide wireless phone manufacturers with a complete applications software platform for multimedia handsets and smartphones. (more…)

This whitepaper by a marketing manager in Intel's Infrastructure Processor Division introduces COM Express, a new “computer on module” (COM) standard from the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). COMs are tiny single-board computers (SBCs) that are used as macrocomponent-like building blocks in embedded systems, (more…)