LinuxDevices.com readers often ask whether there are any books on the subject of embedded Linux, so we've put this special Hot Topic list together to make it easy to locate books on embedded Linux. The list includes links to summaries, reviews, and publication announcements on each book — as well as easy-click links to purchase the books online at Amazon.com. (more…)

The Qt Developer Conference for the Northeast US, May 10 in Waltham, Mass., is offering free registration to anyone submitting an abstract. The event features Trolltech CEO Havaard Nord delivering a keynote, Trolltech representatives discussing advances in Qt 4.0, and local developers discussing advanced UI techniques using… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com readers often ask whether there are any books on the subject of Embedded Linux, so we've put this book list together to make it easy to locate books on this hot subject. In the list below, we have included links to summaries, reviews, and publication announcements on each book — as well as easy-click links to where you can purchase the book online at Amazon.com. (more…)

The Sixth Real-time Linux Workshop, scheduled for Nov. 3-5, 2004, in the island city/nation of Singapore, has issued a call for papers. Interested speakers should submit a 2,000-word abstract on one of several pre-set topics by August 1, 2004. (more…)

Author and developer John Lombardo has written a detailed technical review of the software development kit (SDK) recently released by Roku for its “Roku” media player for HDTVs (high definition televisions). (more…)

Gartner/DataQuest and EE Times Asia have collaborated on a survey which has found embedded Linux to now be the most commonly used operating system among Asian embedded developers. The finding comes from a detailed study surveying over 800 embedded software developers in Asia. (more…)

The SD Times asks: “Should embedded Linux be standardized?” The article, by Edward J. Correia, discusses fragmentation and industry standards and focuses on standardization efforts from the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) and the newer Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF). (more…)

Advantech announced seven new single-board computers for embedded system and device applications, four in PC/104 and PC/104-Plus format, and three in EBX format. The SBCs span a wide processor/performance including 486DX, STPC, Geode, Celeron, Pentium 3, and Pentium 4. (more…)

These days there are numerous embedded devices that use Linux as their foundation. From the manufacturer's viewpoint, this makes economic sence. Unless the quantities are quite small, any time a manufacturer can trade a one time engineering cost (such as software development) for a bill of material cost (such as an OS License) they'll do it. (more…)

PDA Buyer's Guide has published an extensive article reviewing a number of commercial and free applications available for Sharp's popular Zaurus line of PDAs based on embedded Linux and Qtopia. (more…)

Magellan Technology of Sydney, Australia, is using embedded Linux to build advanced RFID tunnel readers capable of reading 50 words of data from 500 stacked tags in under one second. RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, is intended as a work-saving replacement for bar-code scanning, and is expected to gain market… (more…)

Magellan Technology of Sydney Australia develops, licenses, and manufactures high speed, orientation-insensitive, ISO-compliant RFID systems, a number of which are based on embedded Linux. RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, is a wireless means of reading and writing data from/to inexpensive RFID chips that can be attached to or embedded in articles being tracked. (more…)

The Firebird Project has released version 1.5 of the Firebird database engine, a fairly small yet full-featured database that runs on Linux. Firebird evolved from the July, 2000 release of InterBase by Borland. (more…)

Taiwanese embedded software firm EzHomeTech is shipping a Linux implementation for inexpensive consumer-electronic devices based on Sigma Designs system-on-chip (SoC) processors. It is also offering an application stack that enables such devices to be used as low-cost PCs or notebooks costing less than $100. (more…)

Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) has released a “grid/table object” for Qt under both commercial and free licenses that it claims simplifies the inclusion of user interface elements with sophisticated spreadsheet-like functionality. QicsTable works with Qt, a cross-platform development framework that enables Windows, MacOS, Linux, and UNIX binaries to be compiled from a single source tree. (more…)