TheKompany.com has announced two new software applications for the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDAs. The two new apps, which currently support the Zaurus 5000 and 5500 models, are described as follows . . .

• tkcCard — a lite weight, easy to use, flexible data management system. (more…)

[Updated May 14, 2003 — The SCO Group (SCO) has filed a highly publicized lawsuit against IBM, reportedly valued in the billions of dollars, charging that IBM has misappropriated technology obtained through its license of the Unix operating system to the detriment of SCO, and has tried to destroy the economic value of Unix (also to the detriment of SCO) through its massive support of the open… (more…)

SCO is the thief who puts a gun to his own head and says give me your money or I'll shoot.

I haven't read the filings yet, but it sounds as if SCO's main claim is that IBM (and perhaps others) violated their non-disclosure agreements by allowing employees who had seen the Unix source code to work on Linux. (more…)

I have been given a copy of an article, supposedly to run in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow, which reports that Caldera Systems (which now does business as the SCO group) has filed suit agaist IBM for multibillion-dollar damages over supposed disclosure of SCO's intellectual property to what SCO calls the “free software community”. (more…)

EE Times reports that BLX IC Design Corp. is making process on a 500-MHz microprocessor that it plans to market to server manufacturers in China. Known as the “Godson-2,” the new processor is an upgrade to the 266 MHz 32-bit Godson-1, released last year, which was aimed at the embedded market. (more…)

Market analyst firm Venture Development Corp. (VDC) recently completed a research study on the worldwide market for embedded software which covers embedded operating systems, software development tools, design automation tools, test development tools, and database management solutions for embedded systems. (more…)

Taiwan-based Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) announced the release of its latest PC compatible system-on-chip (SOC) processors today. Compared with earlier devices in the 55x family, the SiS550 LV and SiS552 LV feature higher performance yet lower power consumption, SiS said. Additionally, both new high-integration x86-architecture SOCs support operation under a choice of either Linux or Windows… (more…)

Venture Development Corp. (VDC) recently completed a market analysis study titled The 2002/2003 Embedded Software Strategic Market Intelligence Program: Volume II: Embedded Operating Systems, Software Development Tools, Design Automation Tools, Test Automation Tools, and Database Management Solutions for Embedded Systems. (more…)

LynuxWorks has launched LynxOS-178, a new version of the company's POSIX-compliant LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) that is said to be certifiable to the DO-178B level A U.S. FAA (Federal Aeronautics Administration) standard. The standard is commonly used to qualify safety-critical electronic systems for the military and aerospace industry. (more…)

Sun Microsystems announced today that more than one million developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site. JXTA encompasses a set of XML-based open protocols for peer-to-peer network computing applications and is, according to Sun, “the only open source, standards-based, peer-to-peer technology that supports collaboration and communication on any networked device anywhere, anytime.” … (more…)

At the Game Developers Conference this week in San Jose, CA, The Khronos Group is showcasing demos of a new draft standard called the embedded subset of OpenGL (“OpenGL ES”) from several of its… (more…)

(PR excerpt) — Trolltech today released Qtopia 1.6, an embedded Linux application platform, and announced that there are now over 1000 third-party Qtopia applications available. (more…)

Confused by terms like “Banias,” “Centrino,” “Dothan,” “Mobile Pentium 4 M,” . . . ? During the next twelve months, Intel will release 14 different mobile microprocessors and two chipsets. Think you'll have trouble keeping that roadmap straight? Have no fear. Mark Hachman of ExtremeTech decodes the different mobile Pentium processors and their dizzying array of speed grades of up to 3.2-GHz. (more…)

xRhino has released BlackRhino, a Debian-based Linux operating system for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console. xRhino developed BlackRhino in the course of creating a game title for the PS2, and is “releasing this distribution at no charge to the general public in the hopes that the [Linux] PS2 development community will continue to grow,” according to xRhino president Manu Sporny. (more…)

According to a “quick survey” taken during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website, developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable, and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices. (more…)