IBM has published the following technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks Website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . . (more…)

The TomTom Go is a Linux-based in-car GPS navigation system available with or without preloaded maps. The device mounts to the dashboard or windshield, providing a 3D view of the road ahead, as well as text-based and spoken driving directions. (more…)

Foreword: New PCs and servers are beginning to emerge with expansion slots that look different from the PCI slots we've come to know and love over the past decade. The change signals the arrival of PCI Express — an interface that may well become the next decade's I/O expansion solution of choice in a wide range of client and server systems. (more…)

The TomTom Go is a Linux-based in-car GPS navigation system available with or without preloaded maps. The device mounts to the dashboard or windshield, providing a 3D view of the road ahead, as well as text-based and spoken driving directions. TomTom claims it is the smallest car navigation device available. (more…)

A new open source project aims to enable RTLinux-GPL threads to use the normal Linux TCP/IP stack. The OCERA network daemon (onetd) project is part of OCERA, (Open Components for Embedded Real-Time Applications), a European Union-funded project to enhance Linux with real-time capabilities. (more…)

WindowsForDevices reports that AMD is shipping an extremely low-cost PC that it hopes will help the personal computer achieve 50 percent market penetration worldwide by 2015. The $185 Personal Internet Computer (PIC) ($249 with a monitor) runs Windows CE, but looks capable of running Linux. (more…)

A 13-year Wind River executive has left the company to head up a startup focused on WiFi. Dave Fraser is now CEO of Instant802, a venture-funded company that sells Linux-oriented software stacks for wireless access points, central management servers, and network clients such as printers and projectors. (more…)

A project to build a C compiler small enough to enable C to be used as a scripting language has released an impressive technology demonstration: a bootloader that uses the Tiny C Compiler (TCC) to compile a Linux kernel from source at boot-time in as little as 15 seconds. (more…)

Intellectual property (IP) lawyer Edmund J. Walsch warned attendees at September's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Boston that unless a company has a “well-defined technical and legal strategy,” using open source software imperils IP rights and increases the risk of lawsuits. Walsh works for Boston lawfirm Wolf, Greenfield, & Sacks. (more…)

Italian embedded Linux house Koan Software says that its real-time embedded Linux distribution for industrial applications now supports several x86 and ARM-based SBCs (single board computers) from BOSER and ICOP. KLinux is based on RTAI (real-time application interface). (more…)

Empower plans to ship a $200 Linux-based PDA with a color display by December. The PowerPlay 1x is based on a dual-core RISC/DSP Texas Instruments OMAP5910 processor, along with the company's LEOs (LinuxDA Embedded Operating System) software platform. Empower has previously sold sub-$100 PowerPlay PDAs based (more…)

The worldwide market for handheld devices saw its third successive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2004, according to a new report released by IDC. Specifically, handheld device shipments decreased 4.6 percent sequentially and 8.7 percent year over year in the third quarter to 2.1 million units. (more…)

In an effort to enhance the security of “advanced” e-commerce services in mobile devices and guard against viruses and other software attacks, NTT DoCoMo, Intel, and IBM have jointly released a security specification known as the “Trusted Mobile Platform.” (more…)

An embedded 32-bit RISC Linux tools specialist based in Cambell, Calif. has signed up a strategic partner and distributor in Japan. ELT, Japan, a solutions provider focused on embedded Linux development environments, will distribute and market Viosoft's Arriba suite of embedded Linux tools. (more…)

Parvus Corp. will soon ship a ULV Celeron-based single board computer (SBC) in the PC/104 Consortium's recently ratified PCI-104 module format. Based on an ultra low voltage (ULV) 400MHz Intel Celeron Processor and 815E chipset, the SpacePC 8500 can be used fanless, and targets (more…)