San Francisco; JavaOne — (press release excerpt) — Rococo Software announces an Early Adopter Program for Impronto Developer Kit, the world's first standards-based Java tool for developing Bluetooth applications. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; JavaOne — (press release excerpt) — Espial today demonstrated its Personal Basis Profile version of Espial Suite for TV at Sun's JavaOne Developer Conference. The Personal Basis Profile is the successor to the PersonalJava application environment. It provides support for Internet applets in consumer devices and serves as the migration path for applications based on PersonalJava… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt)– Jungo Software Technologies today announced the availability of OpenRG support for the ARM7TDMI microprocessor core. Jungo provides a comprehensive, feature-rich software platform that incorporates advanced system management functions to simplify the installation, management and network configuration functions associated with gateway products. (more…)

Miami, FL — (press release excerpt) — The population of retail point of sale (POS) terminals running Linux in North America increased 80% in 2001 over 2000, according to a new study released today from IHL Consulting Group. However, shipments of the popular open-source operating system [into the POS market] actually decreased from 2000. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum chats with Victor Yodaiken, the creator of RTLinux and President of FSMLabs, a software development company headquartered in New Mexico. Yodaiken has been working on operating systems in both industry and academia since the early 1980s when he was one of the developers of one of the first commercial distributed fault tolerant UNIX systems. (more…)

CNET's Tiffany Kary reports on Microsoft's announcement that they plan to open certain .NET source code to future developers. Kary writes . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum reviews CodeWeavers' new CrossOver Office product, which automates the process of installing and running Windows software on Linux systems, using a simple point-and-click process. In an article at DesktopLinux.com, Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. announced that Cirpack is currently providing telecom operators with robust voice infrastructure solutions developed using MontaVista's High Availability (HA) Framework. (more…)

News.com's Stephen Shankland reports on Sun CEO Scott McNealy's keynote at JavaOne, in this article at ZDNet. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

San Francisco –(press release excerpt)– MontaVista Software Inc. and Zentek Technology Japan Inc. today announced they would join forces to provide embedded developers with innovative solutions targeting applications in the wireless devices market. (more…)

[Updated March 26, 2002, 2:30 pm] IBM is once again going after Sun Microsystems' customer base, and this time it is to take a bigger chunk of the $4.5 billion telecommunications space, from which Sun receives 17 percent of its total revenue. (more…)

This guest editorial at LinuxDevices.com by Victor Yodaiken, holder of a key software patent which covers portions of the RTLinux real-time extension to Linux, comments on the article at LinuxDevices.com entitled “RTAI goes (partly) GPL”. Yodaiken writes . . . (more…)

Matthew Broersma of ZDNet UK reports on Apple Quicktime's upcoming debut on the Linux-based Sharp Zaurus. Broersma writes . . . (more…)

The following is a response by Victor Yodaiken, holder of a key software patent which covers portions of the RTLinux real-time extension to Linux, to the article at LinuxDevices.com entitled “RTAI goes (partly) GPL” . . . (more…)

James Middleton reports on efforts by Apache to require Sun to allow Java implementations by open source groups and academic institutions. Middleton writes . . . (more…)