Austin, TX — (press release exerpt) — Metrowerks is now offering the use of live testing facilities to wireless application developers, handset manufacturers and middleware vendors, giving them access to Metrowerks' mobile network, which provides CDMA, GSM (2G), and GPRS (2.5G) services. (more…)

Richardson, TX — (press release excerpt) — Cambridge Silicon Radio announced today that Zenocom has selected CSR's single-chip Bluetooth solution, BlueCore, for its latest Bluetooth Class 1 module called the BlueLink01.

The module will enable Bluetooth to be incorporated into a range of mobile phones, laptops, headsets, and PDAs and includes a variety of Bluetooth profiles to support these… (more…)

Boston, MA — (press release exerpt) — DMOD, Inc. today announced the DMOD DRM Platform, an end-to-end OEM solution that allows owners and distributors of proprietary digital assets to securely sell and distribute intellectual property across any network or device. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release exerpt) — Atmel Corporation and Lineo, Inc. today announced a partnership to develop and market turnkey products for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. These products will enable OEMs to rapidly develop end-user products such as IP phones based on the combination of Atmel's AT75C Smart Internet Appliance Processor (SIAP) hardware and the Lineo Embedix Linux operating system… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release exerpt) — AMD announced that SuSE Linux AG has submitted enhancements to the official Linux kernel to support AMD's x86-64 instruction set. (more…)

Santa Cruz, CA — (press release exerpt) — A new survey of embedded systems developers by industry research firm Evans Data Corporation. reveals that availability of development tools is an overriding consideration — second only to performance — when selecting a CPU. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release exerpt) — Force Computers today announced the EndurX 25K platform for “Ultra Availability” (UA) solutions, the first in a new line of fully integrated system solutions. EndurX 25K UA offers advanced remote platform management and High Availability (HA) middleware and software upgradeability. (more…)

Nashua, NH — (press release exerpt) — Recognizing the opportunity for Linux to penetrate vertical markets, Linux International (LI) announced the launch of a vertical industry marketing initiative for Linux-related products and services. (more…)

Features

• Embedded Real-Time Linux for Instrument Control and Data Logging, by Sam Clanton — The Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer is a scientific instrument that requires accurate data… (more…)

Lowell, MA — (press release excerpt) — Mission Critical Linux today announced that it will restructure its business to concentrate on its Convolo family of High Availability software products and will exit the general Linux operating system support and professional services business. (more…)

Framingham, MA — (press release exerpt) — NMS Communications introduced the first Linux version of its Natural Access development environment. Now equipment providers can readily create Linux-based, next-generation telecommunications solutions such as speech-driven services, conferencing, IVR, unified messaging, IP gateways, voice portals, and customer contact centers. (more…)

EE Times reports that IBM is talking about setting up the PowerPC 405LP (low power) architecture as a direct competitor to Intel's XScale, as well as stepping up their support for embedded Linux. David Lammers writes . . . (more…)

Santa Ana, CA — (press release excerpt) — REDSonic, Inc., today announced a product policy change in response to the distinctly positive developer review of RED-Builder 2.0 XE by Jerry Epplin of LinuxDevices.com. (more…)

In the latest feature at PMN Publications, Sandra Vogel and Marek Pawlowski review Sharp's Zaurus development model, the “SL-5000D” Linux/Java-based PDA, and interview Mark Klein, Sharp's notebooks and handhelds Marketing Manager. Vogel and Pawlowski write . . . (more…)

Mount Laurel, NJ — (press release excerpt) — Technobox, Inc. demonstrated the operation of its new x86-based Processor PMC (PrPMC) during the 2002 Bus and Board Conference that was recently held in Long Beach, California. With the introduction of its x86 Processor PMC Platform Model 3797, Technobox breaks new ground for PrPMC designs. (more…)