United Press International is reporting that Korean consumer electronics (CE) giant Samsung is adopting embedded Linux as a strategic advantage, and will build some 40,000 digital video recorders based on Linux this month. (more…)

Arcom has made a long-term commitment to sell a fanless embedded single-board computer (SBC) that supports embedded Linux. The embedded hardware specialist says it will sell its EBX form-factor Geode-based SBC-GX1 — first introduced in 2001 — until the year 2010 and beyond. (more…)

LynuxWorks has announced that Empress Embedded Database is now available for its BlueCat embedded Linux operating system. Empress V8.62 is a multi-platform, highly scalable real-time database, according to LynuxWorks, that targets image and voice management, networking, telecom, military, defense, process control, automotive, and data acquisition.

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Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) is offering three insurance products it says can reduce the attractiveness of lawsuits around open source. The products include corporate indemnification insurance, a collective defense program, and a legal advice subscription service for open source developers. (more…)

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…)

KDE.news has published a lengthy interview with Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and director of software development at Trolltech. The interview discusses many topics of interest to embedded Linux developers, including Qt/Embedded, Qtopia, Sharp's Zaurus, and more. (more…)

Media Excel is shipping a real-time software decoder and streaming package for Linux on x86. SoftStream Player supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 compressed video, and targets Celeron, VIA C3, and Transmeta Crusoe based devices powerful enough to do without a hardware decoder. (more…)

No Starch Press and the GNOME Foundation have released “The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide,” the first English-language book about developing with GNOME 2. The book addresses GLib, GTK, and the GNOME API's. (more…)

Intel announced the version 1.0 release of its High Definition Audio (HD Audio) spec today. Intel expects HD Audio to replace the 10-year-old AC'97 spec, and says HD Audio will “[usher] in a new era of sound quality on mainstream and performance PCs, paving the way for broad adoption of next-generation audio.” HD Audio is designed to implement a broader range of audio, modem, and communications… (more…)

EDN Magazine has published a detailed technical article about AdvancedTCA, an architecture standard for embedded telecommunications systems. The article also briefly discusses an open software standard for telecom systems, Carrier Grade Linux. (more…)

Though the market for cellular handsets is predicted to grow 10 percent annually through the end of the decade, a rapidly growing market, cellular radios for Machine-to-Machine (“M2M”) applications, will see growth of 40 percent annually through 2010 according to the preliminary results of a report to be published by ABI Research next month. (more…)

FSMLabs has added a VME control library to its hard real-time operating system, RTLinuxPro. The library offers a POSIX API with hard real-time performance for VME device drivers, and for multiple VME processor cards. It targets heavy duty control and simulation applications. (more…)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil start-up Ponto-i has developed a modern, Linux based jukebox with a retro look reminiscent of the 50s. The “Digipop” jukebox runs a custom Linux distribution based on Debian, along with LinuxBIOS, and uses a mix of custom and commodity PC hardware. (more…)

RTOS and embedded Linux vendor LynuxWorks has responded to last week's statement from Green Hills Software that lambasted embedded Linux as inappropriate for use in high security defense and military applications. The LynuxWorks response refutes GHS claims that open systems such as Linux are inherently ineligible for EAL-7 certification. (more…)

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) and IBM announced today that AMCC is acquiring intellectual property and other assets associated with IBM's 400 series of embedded PowerPC standard processors, along with a license to IBM's “Power Architecture.” The agreement will transfer the PowerPC 403, 405, and 440 processors to AMCC, sources say. (more…)