San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Rachis Corp. today unveiled Rachis eWorkbench, a new automated software suite that streamlines the testing and verification of embedded devices. Rachis eWorkbench test tool currently runs on Embedded Linux and the Windows Embedded family of products, and is easily portable to other embedded operating systems. (more…)

San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Microelectronics today announced the launch of its 8, 16/32 and 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) and System-on-Chip (SoC) product line, under the BlueStreak family name. The family is targeted at the mobile/multimedia, home/office automation and industrial markets. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Eternal Systems made its debut today, demonstrating the latest version of its breakthrough FT/ORB embedded fault-tolerance solution, and introducing its new NIFTI lightweight fault-detector/notifier software. (more…)

[Updated Mar. 13, 2002] San Francisco; Embedded Systems Conference –(press release excerpt) — Microtronix announced today that they will support the creation of customized embedded Linux kernels in the Altera SOPC Builder automated system development tool. Customers will be able to combine the Nios soft-core processor development flow with embedded Linux development, providing great flexibility… (more…)

Hannover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Trintech Group Plc today unveiled PayWare OpenPOS, the world's first open source POS (point of sale) terminal architecture designed to run a range of secure PIN-based card payment applications. (more…)

San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — TimeSys Corporation today announced that its Linux-based solutions have been optimized to support Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC IIe family of processors. (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications, publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal, is pleased to announce that finalists have been chosen in the Linux4.TV embedded Linux development contest. (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader reports that Microsoft will announce speech recognition technology for Xbox gaming systems at ESC in San Francisco on Wednesday. (more…)

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According to a Pro-Linux published report, the German offices of Agenda Computing are in a “dissolution phase,” apparently marking the end of the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA. (more…)

The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) will hold an open technical meeting tonight in San Francisco, during which the two-year-old organization will move beyond its initial role of primarily evangelizing the adoption of Embedded Linux, to one of creating a unified Embedded Linux “platform specification”. (more…)

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Amazon.com has just added the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA to its electronics section, where it's available for pre-order. The cost is $499.99 USD, and shipping is free. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference; — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced the availability of a turnkey solution for embedded system developers desiring to integrate PVR, DVD, MP3, and web browsing capabilities on an Embedded Linux based set-top box using a DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) source. (more…)

San Francisco, CA; Embedded Systems Conference — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. and Infomart today announced continued development and expected Q2 release of the Kaii personal digital assistant (PDA) utilizing the Lineo Embedix Plus PDA vertical software stack. (more…)

Reuters reports that Sharp has signed an agreement with Germany's SAP to develop mobile devices with database access. (more…)

San Francisco, CA, Embedded Systems Conference; — (press release excerpt) — Lineo, Inc. today announced availability of a complete development environment for digital set-top boxes based on the IBM PowerPC-based STB03xxx Evaluation Kit. Utilizing the Lineo Embedix SDK and customized board support package (BSP) for the IBM kit, developers can quickly build, debug, and deploy a customized Linux solution… (more…)