A small company named snom (Berlin, Germany) has recently begun offering a VoIP telephone which uses Linux as its internal software platform. The snom 100 VoIP phone supports various open telephony standards including SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and H.323/H.450, as… (more…)

London, England — (press release excerpt) — The Eclipse Tools project management committee has announced formation of the Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) Project, that will develop a framework for rapidly creating and customizing visual development tools. Visual tools are a key component of today's integrated development environments, allowing developers to depict design objects and their… (more…)

Wayport has announced a special offer to owners of Sharp Zaurus Linux PDAs . . .

For a limited time, Sharp Zaurus customers can try Wayport's service for 30 days absolutely free, with no obligations and no hassles. Get unlimited access at any of Wayport's hotels or wireless airport locations. (more…)

Framingham, MA — (press release excerpt) — WIN Enterprises Inc. today announced two new single-board computer platforms that support operation under Linux: the WIN 440MX 2LAN Entry-Level Communications Appliance Reference Design with 700MHz CPU; and the WIN 810 4LAN Communications Controller based on Intel Corporation communication appliance reference designs. (more…)

Peter Kaplan reports for Reuters that Microsoft executive Joachim Kempin urged his company to 'quietly retaliate' against supporters of the Linux operating system in an August 2000 memo to Bill Gates. Kaplan writes . . . (more…)

Tel Aviv, Israel — (press release excerpt) — Araneo Ltd., a developer of IP TV platforms for enabling real-time video on demand, will demonstrate its innovative streaming TV solution in the IBM Microelectronics booth (Stand F10) at the upcoming Mediacast 2002 show, which will take place on May 21-23 at the ExCel Center in London's Docklands. (more…)

NewsForge editor Tina Gasperson reports on Carnegie Mellon's 'Sustainable Computing Consortium' and its apparent embrace of proprietary standards. Gasperson writes . . . (more…)

Stephen Shankland reports that Sun is taking further steps to 'ensure that Linux and Solaris play well together' in this article at CNET . . . (more…)

The LPI 102 exam prep tutorial series at IBM's developerWorks website concludes with this fourth installment, which shows how to implement basic Linux security including proper Network File System (NFS) configuration and use of the secure shell (ssh). By the end of this series of tutorials (eight in all: four related to the 101 exam and four related to the 102 exam), you'll have the knowledge you need to… (more…)

While most Open Source projects are applications and utilities intended for single users, David Bryan and David Kelly did something different. They created an infrastructure project — a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone system that either can run on a single box attached to a couple of IP phones or can scale up to a network of hosts processing hundreds of calls between thousands of users. (more…)

Tiqit Computers (Redwood City, CA) will demonstrate pre-production models of its 'eightythree' handheld PC May 14-16 at the Planet PDA technology show in Boston. The company claims that the eightythree is the first handheld PC capable of running any desktop operating system, including Windows XP and Linux. (more…)

Mike Ricciuti of CNET News reports that according to Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows, Microsoft's .NET initiative is heading back to the 'drawing board' . . . (more…)

Birmingham, England — (press release excerpt) — Equator Technologies Inc. today announced the immediate availability of 'Tetra' — a new hardware platform powered by its BSP family of high-performance Broadband Signal Processor chips, which includes the MAP-CA and BSP-15 processors. (more…)

Cambridge, UK and Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — ARM and Lineo Inc. today announced that Lineo has completed a port of Embedix, its Linux-based operating system, to the ARM PrimeXsys Wireless Platform. This is the first operating system to be ported to the PrimeXsys Wireless Platform by a third-party Intellectual Property (IP) provider and marks the first availability of embedded Linux… (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has released of a Linux USB host driver supporting its SL811HS embedded host/peripheral controller. This driver will provide Linux developers the ability to add USB host functionality to a variety of embedded system applications, such as cell phones, MP3 players, network appliances and PDAs. (more…)