HP announced that it is adding RadiSys high-availability blade servers and technologies to its Carrier Grade Linux portfolio for the telecommunications and service provider market. The RadiSys boards are based on Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors, and are available in both blade server and rack-mount configurations. (more…)

[Updated 4:30pm PST] — Interact-TV has introduced a less expensive version of its embedded Linux and open source software based “Telly” home entertainment server. The $749 Telly model MC800 provides broadband Internet, cable and satellite TV, digital audio and video entertainment, and digital home networking. (more…)

The Consulting Times has published an article by veteran computer lab manager Tom Adelstein that addresses some common fallacies and myths about open software and makes a strong business case for the sound scientific principles behind open source development. (more…)

U.S. companies interested in exploring business opportunities with leading Japanese consumer electronics makers are invited to participate in a matching event organized by JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. (more…)

Current and future applications for location-aware technologies, as envisioned by Intel, are discussed in this whitepaper by Sanjay Deshmukh, a standards architect in Intel's Corporate Technology Group (CTG), and John David Miller, who co-leads the location-aware computing initiative for Intel's Systems Technology Lab in CTG. (more…)

TimeSys will deliver real-time embedded Linux support for Intel's newest generation of I/O processors, targeting high performance storage applications such as intelligent network adapter cards, RAID adapter cards, and network storage target devices. (more…)

According to numerous reports in the last several days, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest cellular carrier, has adopted embedded Linux for its 3G phones. NTT DoCoMo apparently hopes the Linux-based handsets will accelerate adoption of its 3G, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) services. (more…)

A team of computer scientists at IBM and the University of California/Lawrence Livermore Labs have used Linux and embedded system-on-chip (SoC) technology to achieve a breakthrough in supercomputer technology expected to radically reduce the size and cost of highly scalable systems, while dramatically increasing performance. (more…)

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A team of computer scientists at IBM and the University of California/Lawrence Livermore Labs have used Linux and embedded System on Chip (SoC) technology to achieve a breakthrough in supercomputer technology expected to radically reduce the size and cost of highly scalable systems, while dramatically increasing performance. (more…)

The Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) has issued a call for papers for its track on Embedded Operating Systems. FOSDEM will be held in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 20-21, 2004. (more…)

The Real-Time Application Interface (RTAI) for Linux has achieved the first test release in its 3.0 series, with radical changes it hopes will free it from patent issues relating to FSMLabs's RTLinux product. The new series features a new modular infrastructure, configuration interface, and build system, among other features. (more…)

Lineo Solutions (Japan) has released a board support package (BSP) for Renesas Technology's SH4 2D graphics reference board (RTS7751R2D), targeting portable and car video players, wireless TV-phones, point-of-sales terms, and broadcasting systems for buildings, aircraft, and trains. (more…)

Embedded Linux and an open, hacker-friendly architecture power the world's first high definition media player, the $499 Roku HD1000. The brainchild of ReplayTV inventor Anthony Wood, the device could touch off a cottage industry of third-party applications and media packs that work with its Linux-based OS and user-friendly media… (more…)

Digital signal processing (DSP), software radio, and data acquisition system board vendor Pentek says it has released Linux drivers for two of its software radio boards, the first in a series of boards that will support Linux. (more…)

Mind has ported eCos to Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro FPGA with embedded IBM PowerPC core, using Xilinx's ML300 Evaluation Platform as the target hardware. Mind says the port takes advantage of Xilinx's ML300 drivers for the 10/100 Ethernet MAC (EMAC) core, LCD controller, UART, IRQ controller, GPIO, and access to a microdrive… (more…)