While not specifically embedded in orientation, any major release of Mozilla is potentially important to developers using — or embedding — the highly popular open source web browser and email suite. (more…)

The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in 1995. Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain “hard real-time” performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this LinuxDevices.com article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan — three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux — summarize the state of RTLinux eight years… (more…)

LinuxDevices.com takes a look at the Hubit, a small Linux-based “black box” type device that resides on the web and interfaces to various industrial field buses, allowing remote web-based supervision of building automation and industrial processes. (more…)

IDG News Service reports that Motorola does not plan to initially allow programmers to develop Linux-based applications to run on its recently announced A760 combination handset/PDA, due to concerns that “Linux is not secure enough.” Instead, developers will… (more…)

Market researcher Future Image Inc. announced today that it expects “cell phone cameras” to outsell digital and film cameras combined in 2003. The projection came from the results of a recently completed Future Image survey, titled The Camera-phone Phenomenon — A “New Deal” in Imaging. (more…)

A recent study by EMC Market Data indicates that the US handset market attained 141.4 million cellular phone subscribers as of December 2002, surpassing 50% penetration. The report observes that CDMA technology currently dominates the US market, and is likely to continue to do so through 2007, despite the challenge from GSM, the dominant mobile phone standard in Europe and several other markets. (more…)

Synergy Microsystems announced today that their new switched-fabric interconnect PMC module can sustain aggregate data rates of 1.2 gigabytes/second, based on six streams of full-duplex data transfer at 400 megabytes/second. (more…)

Botech's “Hubit” is a small Linux-based “black box” type device that resides on the web and interfaces to various industrial field buses, allowing remote web-based supervision of building automation and industrial processes. (more…)

Foreword: The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in 1995. Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain “hard real-time” performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan — three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux — summarize the state of RTLinux… (more…)

WebLink Wireless, a provider of paging and messaging services in North America, unveiled several new 2-way messaging products at the CTIA show in New Orleans this week. Included among the new messaging devices which are being added to the company's “ReFLEX product suite” is one which uses Linux as its embedded operating system — the Sun Telecom S-935. (more…)

The following is an announcement from the ecos-discuss mailing list. eCos is an open source real-time operating system originally developed by Cygnus Solutions, later taken over by Red Hat (via its acquisition of Cygnus), and subsequently turned over by Red Hat to a worldwide independent developer community. (more…)

Although it has already been widely reported that Motorola's new A760 mobile phone uses MontaVista Linux as its embedded operating system, Motorola and MontaVista used the occasion of the… (more…)

Hitachi's Internet Platform Business Unit announced today that Codehost has developed a handwriting recognition interface for the Linux version of the Hitachi VisionPlate Wireless Tablet. (more…)

SnapGear Inc. has embedded its VPN appliance technology into a smart PCI NIC card which contains a built-in security processor. Controlled by an embedded Linux operating system (uClinux, to be precise), the SnapGear PCI630 provides full multi-VPN capabilities for secure access and communication, the company said. (more…)

[Updated Mar. 19, 2003] — The T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software announced today that they are collaborating to combine TRON (“The Real-time Operating system Nucleus”) — the long-dominant Japanese embedded operating system — with embedded Linux, in an effort to create a standardized software architecture for embedded devices that takes advantage of open source software and the benefits of… (more…)