Beijing, China — (press release excerpt) — today Trolltech announced two partnerships in an effort to build momentum in China. Together with Chinasoft, Trolltech will drive the acceptance of Qt and Qtopia as the standard for application development on various wireless devices. Trolltech has also announced a strategic partnership with RedFlag, a Beijing-based software company, to collaborate on the… (more…)

The following is an excerpt from a media advisory issued by Stargen, concerning a presentation to be given at this week's Embedded Linux Expo and Conference taking place in Dallas, TX . . . (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA– (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that it has accepted an invitation to serve on the board of directors of eclipse.org. This prestigious open source community develops the Eclipse Platform, an integrated development framework designed to allow easy interoperability between different software solutions. (more…)

In this article at Linux Journal, Boudewijn Rempt and Cameron Laird explain the use of Qt 3.0, one of the two most popular GUI toolkits for Linux application development. The authors tour Qt Designer with images and detailed descriptions of this powerful visual design environment . . . (more…)

Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? or spell your last name? In this brief technical article at LinuxDevices.com, Entrepreneur and Linux hacker Gerd Rausch explains how (and why) he created a small device that could be installed at rental-car agencies, hotel/airline check-in desks, or health-care facilities to receive data beamed directly from your PDA. (more…)

An announcement from IBM . . .

Here's your last chance to conveniently get all the IBM middleware (DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and Lotus Domino), that has been ported to Linux, sent to you for free. The 2-CD Set is part of a new program called (more…)

CNET staff writer Rachel Konrad reports on an emerging trend that suggests Linux will continue to take on a more significant role in business. Konrad features a CNET poll which reinforces that viewpoint . . . (more…)

The idea

Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? Is your last name 'Rausch', and no one can spell it? (more…)

Taipei, Taiwan — (press release excerpt) — this week, National Semiconductor Corp. announced the availability of its Geode SCX200 family of Pentium-class system-on-chip (SOC) processors in a 40mm thermally enhanced plastic ball grid array (PBGA) package. The SCX200 SOCs integrate an x86 processor core along with all the major system blocks required for a high performance information appliance in one… (more…)

Anyone wanting to get deeper into microcontroller based embedded system development may want to checkout these two online tutorials about designing with microcontrollers, from IBM developerWorks. The first tutorial presents an introduction to… (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — This year's Embedded Systems Conference Munich will take place at electronica 2002, the world's largest electronics trade show. The conference will enhance electronica's expected attendance of 80,000 engineers and technical managers and 3,000 exhibiting companies. (more…)

Atlanta, GA; Supercomm 2002 — (press release excerpt) — this week, Broadcom Corp. announced the industry's first single-chip high-performance DSL router solution for the customer premises equipment (CPE) market. (more…)

[Updated June 6, 2002] Hitachi has just released a new model of its Linux-based FLORA-ie wireless web pad. The device was initially launched in November 2000. (more…)

David Coursey, executive editor of the popular ZDNet AnchorDesk, investigates how to add functionality to the embedded Linux-based TiVo personal video recorder by hacking it . . . (more…)

CNET writer Paul Festa offers insight into Mozilla's road to release. Festa writes . . .

“More than four years after the launch of the Mozilla.org open-source project, Mozilla 1.0 is ready to browse.” (more…)