This 32-page white paper from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center establishes an architecture for providing enhanced security services for Linux-based Internet servers. Quoting from the introduction . . . (more…)

The UK GovTalk website, whose purpose is “to enable the Public Sector, Industry, and other interested participants to work together to develop and agree policies and standards for e-government,” has published an interesting 37-page article about the impact of Open Source software (OSS). (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — Thin Computing Inc. today announced WinConnect, a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 5.1 client for the Linux operating system. WinConnect is a software solution that enables Linux-based PCs, terminals, and Internet appliances to connect to a Windows Server to run Windows applications over a network or via the Internet. (more…)

Bangalore, India — (press release excerpt) — Jataayu Software announces the release of the beta version of its WAP 2.0 (Wireless Application Protocol) Developer toolkit. The toolkit contains a WAP 2.0 compatible gateway, browser, a development environment and sample programs and is available at www.jataayusoft.com for free download. (more…)

By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet (UK) . . .

Linux fans were saddened to learn of the death of Yopy, the long-awaited Linux-based PDA, earlier this week. But the rumors of Yopy's death appear to have been exaggerated. (more…)

Sebastopol, CA — (press release excerpt) — O'Reilly & Associates is pleased to announce the 4th annual Open Source Convention. The Open Source Convention is a five-day event designed for programmers, developers, strategists, and technical staff involved in Open Source technology and its applications. (more…)

CNET is running a story from Reuters news agency that says Sharp plans to release a handheld organizer this summer that will support the NTT DoCoMo's high-speed third-generation wireless network. Quoting from the CNET story . . . (more…)

The BBC has a short review of the soon-to-be-released Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux/Java-based PDA, mentioning:

The handheld made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, US, where it was selected by the event organisers as a Best of Innovations 2002 honouree. (more…)

By Ernest Khoo, ZDNet News . . .

The handheld computer is commonly seen as a geek toy for affluent mobile professionals. However, the Simputer will change all that by bringing portable computing and the information age to developing countries. (more…)

Rumors are flying about that Samsung has discontinued the Yopy Linux PDA, as a result of the unveiling of a new Samsung PDA (the “Nexio”) which runs Windows CE. In a story at CNET, Brian Bennett and Colin Duwe report that “a… (more…)

by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet (UK) . . .

Royal Consumer Information Products, best known for low-cost commodity appliances like shredders and postal scales, this week became the first to announce a low-cost color PDA based on the Linux operating system. (more…)

[Updated Jan. 10: added photo taken at CES] Royal Consumer Information Products unveiled a new Linux-powered PDA Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. Royal's new “[email protected]” PDA sports a full-color graphic LCD display and is based on a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor with 16MB of Flash ROM and 32MB of system RAM. (more…)

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is offering a new course on Embedded Linux which will be taught on nine Thursday evenings, from now through March 7, 2002. Registration for the course is still open, and students who cannot make tonight's class are welcome to join before next week, according to the instructor. (more…)

Invair Technologies (Stuttgart, Germany) unveiled a new Linux-based PDA this week at CeBIT 2002 in Hannover, Germany. According to Adrian Steinmann of Invair, the device, called the Filewalker, was designed to be able to be operated with one hand, weighs a mere 0.2 lbs, and is quite small (though… (more…)

This technical article by Andrey N. Filippov describes the use of Embedded Linux in the design of the Elphel Model 303 High Speed Gated Intensified Camera. The device combines a fast gated micro-channel plate (MCP) image intensifier, a CMOS image sensor, and an embedded computer based on an Axis ETRAX RISC processor running Embedded Linux. (more…)