[Updated 10:45 pm PST] In what may well represent one of the most significant milestones of the rapidly emerging Embedded Linux market, Matsushita and Sony today jointly announced that the two companies are collaborating to create an embedded Linux operating system for consumer devices. (more…)

Japan — (press release excerpt) — Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) and Sony Corporation today announced their agreement to work in partnership on the development of an enhanced Linux platform for digital home electronic devices. The companies will aim to apply the fruits of their collaboration to their AV (audio visual) products and to make the source code available to the public for… (more…)

This article addresses a perceived need that has arisen with the rather sudden proliferation of embedded systems that deploy full fledged operating systems, such as Linux. The intent is to initiate a discussion in hopes of eventually meeting the perceived need. The hope is that this is really an opportunity for the embedded Linux community. (more…)

ZDNet, EE Times, and others offer their perspectives on the acquisition of Lineo (Embedix) by Motorola's Metrowerks software tools subsidiary. (more…)

Sacramento, CA — (press release excerpt) — Winfessor has released the .NET Jabber SDK for Mono. the new SDK now lets .NET developers build cross platform instant messaging applications XMPP compliance that target Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows CE, and Windows Pocket PC 2002, and supports multiple character sets such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Italian. (more…)

It's official: Following weeks of speculation, Motorola's Metrowerks embedded tools subsidiary today formally announced that they are acquiring the key assets of Embedix Inc. (more…)

Sunnyvale and San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software has received an equity investment from Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), a subsidiary of the global electronics firm, Toshiba Corp. TAEC joins a list of high-profile corporate investors, including IBM, Intel, Sony, Yamaha, and Panasonic who have invested in MontaVista Software this year. (more…)

LocustWorld recently announced a hardware/software implementation of an open access point platform capable of meeting the needs of community networks. The system is available for purchase as a ready-to-go system (the “MeshBox”), or the software can be freely downloaded from LocustWorld's website. (more…)

Bayonne, NJ — (press release excerpt) — The latest development version of GNU Bayonne (1.1.3), released today, now offers direct and easy to use support for SQL driven database connectivity in telephony voice response applications. (more…)

San Jose and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Altera Corp. and MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition now supports Altera's Excalibur EPXA1 Development Kit. (more…)

Austin, TX — AMD today announced three new development board kits for its low power Alchemy Solutions processor family. The DBAu1000, DBAu1500, and DBAu1100 development board kits are integrated hardware/software systems that leverage the high performance, low power AMD Alchemy Solutions processors. (more…)

New York — (press release excerpt) — Tipic Inc. announced plans to use Mono to build a multi-platform server that works on Linux and UNIX as well as on Microsoft Windows servers. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — a board support package (BSP) for MontaVista Linux Professional Edition is now available for the new Xilinx Virtex-II Pro ML300 development platform, enabling developers of embedded Linux based products to target a completely programmable, re-programmable, and field-upgradable system platform. (more…)

Foreword: LocustWorld recently announced a hardware/software implementation of an open access point platform capable of meeting the needs of community networks. The system is available for purchase as a ready-to-go system (the “MeshBox”), or the software can be freely downloaded from LocustWorld's website. (more…)

This three-part article at IBM's developerWorks website introduces openMosix, a Linux clustering technology. The series begins with the basics (“What is clustering?”). By the end, you'll have your own openMosix mini-cluster up and running and will be ready to use it effectively to accelerate your computing tasks. (more…)