San Francisco, CA and Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Macromedia, Inc. and Opera Software ASA today announced that Macromedia Flash Player will be available to licensees of Opera's embedded browsers. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and MontaVista Software, Inc. today announced a partnership to provide Linux support for IDT's integrated communications processors targeted for existing and emerging applications including Ethernet switching, gateways,… (more…)

Bluetooth World Congress, Amsterdam, BV — (press release excerpt) — Lineo and Open Interface North America have announced a strategic partnership to develop advanced Bluetooth solutions for their OEM mobility application customers. (more…)

DaimlerChrysler recently demonstrated an S-class Mercedes equipped with Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) services, in Berlin. The demonstration was the product of a collaboration among DaimlerChrysler, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile, Jentro, and MBDS / Nice University Sophia Antipolis. (more…)

London — (press release excerpt) — Thirdspace, a specialist in broadband TV enablement, announced the appointment of Holger Ippach as Head of Product Management, client solutions. Holger Ippach was previously the chief technology officer for [embedded Linux supplier] Tuxia GmbH (Augsburg, Germany). (more…)

Peabody, MA — (press release excerpt) — ScanSoft, Inc. today announced the RealSpeak Compact SDK, a text-to-speech (TTS) solution for automotive and mobile applications. The new SDK allows developers to add human-sounding speech capabilities to applications developed for devices with small processing and memory capabilities, including those based upon Microsoft Windows CE and Linux. (more…)

Scottsdale, AZ — (press release excerpt) — National Scientific Corporation (NSC) today announced the launch of its StarSeries line of intelligent wireless mobile communication platforms. StarPilot, the first product in this new family is a location information server designed to seamlessly connect automobile drivers and passengers with the Internet and location-based technologies. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium has published a pair of reviews of Embedded Linux, a book by Craig Hollabaugh. (more…)

A new article in Integrated Communications Design (iCD) highlights the growing data management challenge of developing next-generation IP routing devices. Written by Andrei Gorine of McObject, the piece presents an in-depth view of embedded routing table management (RTM) software, and proposes that by replacing “homegrown” data management with commercial in-memory database systems (IMDSs) in this role, IP… (more…)

DesktopLinux.com Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean reports on the keynote speech at opening day of the USENIX conference in Monterey, CA where over 1100 attendees are on hand for a week of high-powered conferences. Predicting a 'silent spring' on the Internet, Stanford University's renowned Lawrence Lessig lectured on the scope and extent of laws affecting the Internet. (more…)

The Ericsson DSI team authored this technology brief explaining 'distributed security architecture' (DSI) that supports advanced security mechanisms. Targeted at telecom applications running on carrier-class Linux clusters, the DSI team offers a great overview in this online Linux Journal article . . . (more…)

Vancouver, June 12, 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Nearly 200 of the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers have announced the formation of a new, global organization called the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). (more…)

Suzanne Thornberry examines the role of Linux in PDAs for ZDNet . . .

“With Sharp Electronics' rollout of the Zaurus, Linux has been getting more attention as a viable platform for handheld devices.” (more…)

This LinuxDevices.com 'device profile' takes a peek at the new Toshiba Magnia SG20 wireless mobility server, a compact, Linux-based portable wireless server. About the size of a typical notebook computer, the appliance-like device is intended to make it easy to pack up an entire network and take it on the… (more…)

The Open Group's conference, “Boundaryless Information Flow: The Role of Web
Services,” will be held in Boston July 22-26. (more…)