What's all the fuss about a new machine called the x343? IBM's new Linux-based eServer, which is targeted at the emerging Linux-based telecom server industry, is spotlighted in this telecom industry update from IBM. Also discussed, are a new Linux Service Provider Lab for Linux software testing and the Open Source Development Lab's “Carrier Grade Linux” project . (more…)

An announcement from Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software . . .

Three open source games created for the Linux desktop using libSDL — “Vectoroids,” “Mad Bomber”, and “Bug Squish” — have been ported to the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA. Each game has been scaled down graphically to fit the touchscreen display, and released as an easily-installed package for the Zaurus. (more…)

[Updated 4:00pm PDT] ZDNet has created a special feature devoted to this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) held by Microsoft in Seattle, WA . . . (more…)

Socorro, NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs Inc. today announced the immediate availabity of user-mode hard real-time capability for the RTLinux/Pro hard real-time operating system. (more…)

Writing for ZDNet (UK), Matthew Broersma discusses Sharp's Zaurus launch plans for Europe. Broersma reports . . . (more…)

OQO (pronounced “oh-q-oh”) unveiled a unique tiny modular computer at Microsoft's WinHEC conference today in Seattle, WA. The newly created “ultra-personal computer” PC category has the potential to “transform personal computing the same way the cell phone has revolutionized telecommunications,” says OQO executive vice president Colin Hunter. (more…)

CNET News.com Staff Writer David Becker reports that Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy . . . (more…)

Issaquah, WA — (press release excerpt) — McObject has released version 2.0 of its eXtremeDB small footprint, in-memory database system (IMDS) on Linux, with new features that improve developer flexibility and enhance the run-time capabilities of applications based on eXtremeDB. In addition to overall performance enhancements, new features in eXtremeDB 2.0 include object-versioning, notifications, and new… (more…)

Santa Ana, CA. — (press release excerpt)– Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) and REDSonic have agreed to integrate RTLinux/Pro into REDSonic's product mix including the REDSonic's RED-Builder development and deployment tool. (more…)

David HM Spector examines the state of Linux for wireless networks in this series at O'Reilly. Spector writes . . . (more…)

CNET News.com's technology editor Stephen Shankland reports on what is expected to take place at this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), hosted by Microsoft in Seattle, WA. Shankland says the following key topics and technologies are on the WinHEC agenda . . .

• New software components to enable true peer-to-peer application development on Windows
• Version 2 of… (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — Today at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2002, Royal Philips Electronics and Microsoft Corp. announced that they have entered into a strategic agreement aimed at introducing a new Microsoft Windows operating system peripheral: the remote control. (more…)

CNET editors Michael Kanellos and David Becker report on a new Microsoft technology that will soon start showing up on high-end Windows-based PCs: Freestyle. With features similar to the successful embedded Linux powered TiVo including remote control, Freestyle targets the emerging digital video entertainment space. Kanellos and Becker write . . . (more…)

Lineo has released Linux USB Device software, which was developed to support the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, under the GNU GPL open source license. The software, which provides a “stack” which implements USB Devices under Linux, can be freely downloaded from Lineo's open source website. (more…)

According to a letter to customers at ZF Micro Devices Inc.'s website, the company ceased business on February 28, 2002, and has been acquired by a new company called “ZF Micro Solutions”, founded in February 2002. (more…)