[Updated Mar. 13, 2003] — Swedish datacom company i3 Micro Technology announced a family of three Linux-powered devices and associated services that are meant to capitalize on the emerging convergence of the Internet, telephony, and TV over IP-based broadband networks. (more…)

Synergy Microsystems announced a PowerPC-based single-board computer that the company says was designed specifically to meet the DoD's emerging “smart platform” requirements. (more…)

Ericsson Mobile Platforms has joined the Khronos Group, according to a statement issued today.

“We firmly believe that OpenGL ES will become an important graphics API in the embedded arena,” said Bjorn Ekelund, Vice President Technology Development, Ericsson Mobile Platforms. (more…)

EE Times reports on the emerging VoIP telephony market from Network Outlook conference in Burlingame, CA this week. According to the article, Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's general manager of switching, voice and carrier systems described the VoIP phone market as growing rapidly, with roughly “half of businesses . (more…)

This article on IBM's developerWorks website is about Stow, a software installation management utility for Linux that offers a number of advantages over the popular Red Hat and Debian package management systems. With Stow, you can package applications in standard tar files and keep application binaries logically arranged for easy access . . . (more…)

A new report from eTForecasts examines the trend of computer platforms finding their way onto electronic devices in telecommunications, consumer electronics, auto electronics, and other industries. Report author, Dr. Egil Juliussen, cites cost decline, capability growth, and flexibility as helping platform-based designs gain market share. (more…)

SafeNet announced availability of a specialized coprocessor chip which is intended to accelerate computationally intensive applications such as intrusion detection systems, firewall, virus scanning, load balancing, and web switching. (more…)

(PR excerpt) — McObject has released a fault-tolerant version of its in-memory database for intelligent devices running on Linux. Designed to power embedded systems that cannot afford to fail, eXtremeDB HA delivers the highest degree of reliability, along with its unsurpassed performance and ultra-small footprint. (more…)

Ampro Computers and TimeSys Corp. announced today that the TimeSys Embedded Linux operating system and software development kit have been certified by TimeSys for use with five additional Ampro single board computer (SBC) products, all based on x86 processors. (more…)

Invair Technologies (Stuttgart, Germany) is set to unveil a new Linux-based PDA that includes GSM/GPRS phone functions as well as GPS positioning at the CeBIT 2003 show in Hannover, Germany this week. The device, called the Filewalker Messenger, is the first Linux-based PDA to feature a new dual-core “OMAP” system-on-chip… (more…)

Witnet International, Inc. announced plans to commercialize wireless VoIP phone technology for PDAs that will include the capability of real-time multimedia interaction between users during call sessions. The software, called ModaPhone, will support PDAs and other devices that run on embedded Linux or Windows CE operating systems. (more…)

Apache is a marvelously customizable daemon. You can tailor this web server software for specific platforms, environments, and performance thresholds. Unfortunately, most administrators run an out-of-the-box installation with few modifications to the default configuration. In this Linux-focused tutorial on IBM's developerWorks website, you learn many suggestions, tips, and tricks for controlling Apache… (more…)

This article is based on a masters thesis project which investigated the possibility of turning Linux into a real-time operating system. The authors primarily focus on available “hard real-time” solutions for Linux, but also look into some “soft real-time” variants for completeness. (more…)

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This article is based on a masters thesis written by Martin Andersson and Jens-Henrik Lindskov. The work was carried out at Axis Communications AB during autumn 2002. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com has received the following update on the status of the Adeos project from Philippe Gerum, who implemented Adeos and released it under the GNU GPL in June, 2002 . . . (more…)