The market for networked home control devices is expected to reach $900M by 2008, when 20 million units will ship, according to market research key findings from ABI. As technology, connectivity, and automation permeate the home, appliance makers will build in networking capabilities, enabling their products to be controlled centrally from a “residential gateway.”

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Rick Lehrbaum, founder and editor-in-chief of LinuxDevices.com, will offer his perspective on “Embedded Linux and the Embedded Linux Market” at an SD Forum meeting February 10, in Palo Alto, Calif. Lehrbaum's presentation is also available online, for those unable to attend in person. (more…)

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has published a position paper that indicates Linux customers will likely ignore SCO Group's legal threats until a court decision is rendered in the litigation brought by SCO Group against Novell on copyright ownership. (more…)

The SCO licensing campaign — which has been all bark and no bite since its introduction by way of threatening letters to the Fortune 1500 last summer — lost a wheel last month, and is now headed for the wall. (more…)

According to an article in the EE Times, defense contractor and jet fighter plane developer Pratt & Whitney is using real-time Linux to test a new “F135” engine slated to debut in the F-35 “Joint Strike Fighter” aircraft. (more…)

MontaVista Software ended its 2003 fiscal year with revenue growth of 77 percent over the previous year, it says, producing 500 design wins for the year and becoming cash-flow positive in the fourth quarter of 2003, ahead of plan. By the end of 2003, MontaVista Software had experienced 15 consecutive quarters of growth, and had increased revenue 12-fold since 2000, despite a challenging global economy, it… (more…)

Arabella Software has ported Linux to Motorola's MPC885 PowerQUICC family of communications processors, and has released free and commercial Linux reference designs based on Motorola's MPC885ADS evaluation board. (more…)

Nokia announced today that it has started the process of enabling the transfer of Psion's shares in the Symbian embedded operating system to Nokia. Upon completion of the transaction, Nokia estimates that its share in Symbian will increase to approximately 63.3% from the current 32.2%. (more…)

IBM has published the following eight 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 . . .

• Basic use of pthreads — Threads strike fear into the hearts of many programmers. UNIX's process… (more…)

Opera Software will add WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) support to its “full HTML” browser for mobile phones, thanks to a deal with Motorola to use Mot's Global Software Group's (GSG's) WAP stack. The companies will both market the resulting product, positioning it as a way for telco operators to transition to revenue-generating HTML content while still supporting legacy WAP content. (more…)

This whitepaper is the first in a series from TimeSys's “2.6 Linux Resource Center” on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. (more…)

Access announced the addition of a new, patent-pending rendering technology to its mobile web browser, resulting in “dramatically faster” speed of web page presentation on mobile devices. Access claims that with “Rapid-Render,” the Access NetFront web browser's download speeds are up to six times faster than previous versions of NetFront. (more…)

MIPS hardware vendor Mycable and in-memory database vendor McObject have collaborated to create a hardware/software kit combining Mycable's tiny XXS1500 Linux/MIPS System and McObject's eXtremeDB embedded database, along with reference applications for multimedia, monitoring, and control systems. (more…)

Foreword — This whitepaper is the first in a series from TimeSys's”2.6 Linux Resource Center” on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel. (more…)

Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann described Eclipse as “an idea whose time has come” during a keynote address at EclipseCon, according to an ADTmag.com story. Reportedly, Tiemann compared Eclipse to the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee, and the creation of Linux by Linus Torvalds, in describing Eclipse… (more…)