Hong Kong — (press release excerpt) — NanoGTK is an open source project for the Linux community initiated by Hong Kong based Emsoft, an innovator of Linux based software solutions for consumer electronic manufacturers in Asia. (more…)

[Updated June 19, 2002] Mizi Research (Seoul, Korea) announced earlier this week the near-term availability of a hardware/software developer kit for its [email protected] (pronounced 'Linu-ette') Embedded Linux distribution. (more…)

Reuters is reporting that Sun is 'setting the non-Microsoft standard' in 'Web services.' This move by Sun to embrace open standards, and Linux in particular, is yet another indication of a battle brewing between the two companies. For its part, Microsoft is phasing out Sun's Java in products in favor of home-grown .NET services. (more…)

MontaVista Software, Inc. today announced that two Japanese firms, Nexterm Inc. and ELT Inc., have jointly developed “an advanced thin-client terminal” based on MontaVista Linux. The Nexterm SE is described as “a highly efficient and lightweight micro-client that executes all terminal applications in a server-based computing environment.” (more…)

Munich, Germany; Debrecen, Hungary — (press releaes excerpt) — DynaPel Laboratories and MediaTechnik Software Group are partnering to develop a streaming module for Linux-based computers to multicast an MPEG-4 stream to the desired users. (more…)

CNET editor Stephen Shankland reports that Red Hat has discontinued development of its eCos open source embedded operating system, laying off the U.K. based eCos development team. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Hawthorne, NY — (press release excerpt) — IBM Research has demonstrated the industry's first self-diagnostic tool that can automatically monitor 802.11 wireless networks and report security problems in real-time. The Distributed Wireless Security Auditor (DWSA), which runs on desktop and laptop computers, can monitor wireless network security and report to the central back-end servers minute by minute,… (more…)

Toowong, Australia — (press release excerpt) — HCV Wireless announced that their BlueMod Bluetooth single-board computer (SBC) has been officially recognized as a Bluetooth product by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). This makes BlueMod the world's first (and only) qualified Bluetooth SBC. (more…)

This article from IBM developerWorks walks you through the steps of dual-booting by showing you how to install multiple instances of the same Linux distribution on a single drive, which allows you to easily test different libraries with the same program, watch how your program interacts with others, or tweak a parameter here or there just to see what happens. (more…)

QNX Software Systems (Ottawa, Canada) has introduced a new branding — “Momentics” — to go with the company's first in-house developed graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The recently introduced QNX Momentics Development Suite marks a major step forward for QNX, one that is clearly intended to take on market leader Wind River's popular “Tornado” embedded development toolset. (more…)

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As Linux becomes more popular with embedded system developers, it's becoming increasingly important for gdb to be able to do remote debugging of multithreaded programs in an embedded Linux target. As of gdb 5.2, gdb's “gdbserver” remote probe did not support this. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — Venture Development Corp. (VDC) today unveiled highlights from a recent VDC technology market research report entitled “Java in Embedded Systems”. VDC's research showed that OEMs spent $117 million in 2001 to purchase Java technology including Java virtual machine licenses, bundled tools and services. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press releaes excerpt) — Jungo Software Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its embedded software components product line. The product line includes UPnP, USB Host, and USB Remote NDIS software stacks enabling device manufacturers to keep pace with today's expanding network requirements for device connectivity and interoperability. (more…)

New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems Inc. today announced it was joining the SuperH Partner Program as a Founding Member and that it will be developing and supporting the NetBSD operating system for the SH-5 processor from SuperH, Inc. (more…)

John Lui, CNET Asia staff writer reports MXI (Motion Experience Interface), an operating system that 'run programs written for Windows as well as Linux' . . . (more…)