Las Vegas, NV; NAB 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Century Embedded Technologies and VT Media Technologies today announced the formation of a strategic alliance to aggressively push into the low-cost broadband/IP set-top box (STB) marketplace. (more…)

Las Vegas, NV; NAB 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Mediabolic, Inc. and IBM today unveiled the Mediabolic One entertainment platform operating on IBM's PowerPC-based STB Integrated Controller at NAB 2002. The combination represents a powerful and cost effective option for manufacturers to bring next generation features to consumer electronics devices targeted at home entertainment. (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release excerpt) — the Spring 2002 Linux Developer Survey released today by market research firm Evans Data Corp. (EDC) says that over three quarters of polled Linux developers report no incidence of outside intrusion, and even fewer report any viral attacks whatsoever. (more…)

Sunnyvale CA, Paris, Tokyo — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1, the first carrier-grade quality Linux distribution targeted for edge and core telecommunications including applications for the converging IP and voice networks, optical networks, signaling gateways and Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways, and many other applications. (more…)

AMD today unveiled the latest fruit of its recent acquisition of Alchemy Semiconductor: the Au1100 processor, a MIPS-based system-on-chip that targets non-PC mobile internet apps such as webpads, telematics, and PDAs. The device contains a RISC processor which executes the MIPS32 instruction set, and is designed for a combination of high performance and low power. (more…)

In January, at Linux World in New York, a group of major global corporations — including semiconductor manufacturers Intel and IBM, and equipment providers Nokia, Alcatel, and Cisco — announced that they were joining forces with the Open Source Development Lab to define a common industry… (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader reports that two new community-run portal sites for the Zaurus appeared this weekend . . .

• Zaurus.LovesLinux.com includes a link directory, software index, web-based forums, and more. (more…)

Dave Ruske takes a quick look the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 at PocketAnywhere. Ruske writes . . .

Long before anyone heard of Palm, Sharp owned a large segment of the electronic organizer market. These gadgets were little more than address books, calendars, and calculators all rolled into one, and usually offered a simple keyboard-based interface. (more…)

Missed the big annual Embedded Systems Conference held recently in San Francisco? LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum brings you all the juicy details of the outstanding progress being made by Embedded Linux, in his customary report on “all things Linux at the Embedded Systems Conference”. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Writing at LinuxGram.com, Maureen O'Gara reports today that Lineo, faced with a liquidity crisis, has obtained emergency funding to keep its doors open. O'Gara says that during the last several weeks Lineo didn't have the funds to cover final paychecks to recently laid off employees or to its current staff, but that at… (more…)

With the possible exception of TiVo, the Sharp Zaurus PDA represents the highest profile Linux-based consumer product from a major electronics manufacturer to hit retail sales channels. Unlike TiVo, however, Sharp is strongly promoting the presence of Linux in the Zaurus as a key selling-point, and is fostering the development of third-party software and hardware products for… (more…)

Here is an excerpt from an announcement today at kde.org . . .

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.0, the third generation of KDE, a free and powerful desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.0 is available in 50 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the base desktop environment, an integrated development environment (KDevelop), and hundreds of… (more…)

David Cafaro examines both the pros and the cons of the Sharp Zaurus in this online article over at NewsForge.com. Cafaro concludes that, although there are some notable deficiencies, they aren't anything that can't be fixed — especially with the power of the open source community applied to the task. (more…)

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) held in San Francisco during the week of March 11, 2002 was expected to draw over 15,000 attendees from all facets of the embedded systems market. Despite the much slower than anticipated economic conditions, event organizers report that attendance reached around 12,000. (more…)

In this article at ZDNet, Rich Castagna examines the role of Linux in the 'new economy' and how it has adapted to challenges with support from such industry heavyweights as IBM . . . (more…)