Salt Lake City, UT — (press release excerpt) — Lineo Inc. today announced Lineo Embedix BridgeWorks VX and PS, which the company claims are the first hard real-time solutions for porting legacy code from VxWorks or pSOS+ to embedded Linux without making use of a translation layer. (more…)

MontaVista Software announced today that it has been chosen by Nokia Networks to help develop an All-IP infrastructure. Specific details of the products and services under development were not disclosed. (more…)

East Fishkill, NY and Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — IBM and MontaVista Software, Inc., today announced a technology agreement under which MontaVista's embedded Linux platform will expand its support for the IBM PowerPC microprocessor. (more…)

Tokyo and Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — NEC Corporation and its wholly owned semiconductor affiliate in the United States, NEC Electronics Inc., today introduced the VR4181A 64-bit microprocessor, the latest addition to NEC's VR family of processors designed to provide low-power operation with high integration. (more…)

A LinuxDevices.com reader has found an easy way to download the latest Embedded Linux news into his Palm PDA, based on spidering our backend headline feed using a free program called “plucker”. Grayman writes . . . (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and Jungo Software Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of two reference designs that deliver cost-effective, innovative system solutions, accelerating time to market for makers of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) residential and small office/home office (SOHO) gateways. (more…)

Atlanta, GA — (press release excerpt) — Concurrent Computer Corporation Real-Time Division today announced that Chief Scientist Steve Brosky will be a featured presenter at the Open Group Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum. (more…)

Natick, MA — (press release excerpt) — According to recent research conducted by Venture Development Corporation, the global wireless LAN hardware market reached almost $1 billion in 2001 and is forecast to grow by over 25% annually to exceed $2.3 billion by 2005. Although, at 4%, growth in 2001 was significantly lower than historical levels, the market is poised to rebound by late 2002. (more…)

The following announcement appears at XFree86.org . . .

The XFree86 project has released XFree86 version 4.2.0, the fifth full release in the XFree86 4 series. XFree86 release 4 is a major re-design of the basic architectural underpinnings of XFree86's implementation of the original X Consortium's X… (more…)

Long Beach, CA; Bus&Board/2002 Conference — (press release excerpt) — Pigeon Point Systems announced today the immediate availability of the Pigeon Point Hot Swap Kit (HSK) for Linux. HSK for Linux augments the Linux 2.4 kernel to add support for inserting and removing (“hot swapping”) CompactPCI peripheral boards… (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software today announced that it has secured approximately $28 million in its third round of funding. New investors include IBM and Sony Corporation. Previous investors — US Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures, Intel Capital, RRE Ventures, and WR Hambrecht & Co. (more…)

Empower Technologies has announced the PowerPlay V, a Linux-based PDA equipped with the look and feel of a Palm Vx. The new PDA is currently available for purchase on Empower's website. (more…)

[Updated Jan. 19, 2002] Seoul, Korea — (press release excerpt) — PalmPalm Technology has announced a strategic partnership with Sharp Electronics whereby PalmPalm will adapt the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA to the Korean language and character-set and will distribute it in Korea. (more…)

Instant802 Networks Inc. (San Francisco, CA) has announced the release of OpenAP, an open source Linux distribution for 802.11 access points. (more…)

In this interview, LinuxDevices.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum chats with Robert Love, the principal maintainer of an increasingly popular kernel-preemption patch that improves the real-time responsiveness of the Linux kernel. Love describes his role in the project, explains why the preemption enhancement is important to a broad range of Linux applications beyond just embedded/real-time… (more…)