Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — TROY Wireless today announced EtherWind-Plus, an intelligent 802.11b board-level product designed to allow OEMs to easily incorporate 802.11b wireless connectivity and/or Ethernet connectivity inside of their products. EtherWind-Plus can work with almost any device that has a standard IEEE 1284 parallel port or RS-232 serial port. (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — InHand Electronics Inc. today announced the immediate availability of InHand Linux for its full-line of handheld and wireless device reference platforms. (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release excerpt) — Attendees at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will get a revealing look at the worldwide Linux developer community's attitudes, beliefs, opinions and intentions in a presentation by Evans Data Corp. (EDC) analyst Jeff Child, Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 1:45 p.m. PDT. (more…)

Irvine, CA — (press release excerpt) — Broadcom Corp. today announced a 500 megabit/sec (Mbps) IP security processor that provides manufacturers with a high-performance, low power security solution for cost-sensitive networking equipment. The Broadcom BCM5823 CryptoNetX IPsec Processor, with a built-in PCI bus, supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and public key processing. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — HP announced that it has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop and deploy file system software for Linux clusters. The joint research and development effort between HP and NNSA to develop the software, code-named Lustre, is a three-year project. (more…)

Milpitas, CA — (press release excerpt) — LSI Logic Corp. today introduced the first product in its HomeBASE family of digital subscriber line (xDSL) end-to-end solutions, the HomeBASE ADSL Ethernet chipset. The chipset is designed to address the cost and performance issues of the ADSL customer premise equipment (CPE) market. (more…)

Atlanta, GA and Cork, Ireland — (press release excerpt) — Raidtec Corp. announced the launch of NAS-in-a-Flash, an implementation of its NAS Operating System, FlashLinux. NAS-in-a-Flash is the entire FlashLinux combination of NAS OS and storage applications suite embedded in a Flash plug-in module for Intel CPU based motherboards. (more…)

Oakland, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Free Standards Group has launched a new workgroup aimed at creating a standardized, scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for printing systems. The OpenPrinting Workgroup is open to both industry and community participants to address the needs of desktop to enterprise-ready printing, including management, reliability, security, scalability,… (more…)

This pair of announcements from Erik Andersen covers two updates to uClibc (version 0.9.13 followed by a quick bug fix), news of a native uClibc/gcc-3.1.1 toolchain, and the exciting announcement that uClibc is now available from the kernel.org mirrors . . . (more…)

Writing at CNET, Stephen Shankland previews the LinuxWorld Expo and discusses some key announcements expected this week. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Writing at the New York Times, John Markoff reports on LinuxWorld Expo. Markoff focuses on Microsoft's attendance at the show and discusses Linux's current 'momentum'. . . (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader reports that the new Sharp Zaurus A300 Linux PDA has begun shipping in Japan, according to the article referenced below. The article is in Japanese and is briefly summarized . . . (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader passed along the following announcement regarding an opportunity for $250,000 government funding of a project. Note that there is less than one month remaining for proposal submissions . . . (more…)

Gary Krakow reviews the Sharp Zaurus for his MSNBC column. Krakow points out the speed, great browser, and other great features in this overwhelmingly positive review . . . (more…)

Writing at CNET, Stephen Shankland and Michael Kanellos report on a proposal garnering support by state legislators that could prohibit California state agencies from using non-open source software — including Microsoft products. A rally will take place in conjunction with the Linux World Conference this week in San Francisco to support the proposed initiative. (more…)