Half Moon Bay, CA — (press release excerpt) — OnCore Systems Corporation today appointed Chuck Colford to the newly created post of General Manager. Colford brings more than 20 years of team building, engineering, and executive management expertise to OnCore Systems. Colford will be based out of the company's recently announced Ottawa Design Center located in Ottawa,
Canada. (more…)

ELJonline.com has published the online version of the January, 2002 edition of the Embedded Linux Journal. As usual, the new issue is filled with interesting and informative articles on embedded Linux technologies and projects, including . . .

• Real Time and Linux
• The Linux4.TV Set-Top Box Open Source Project
• Linux and Telematics: Building a Passenger Heatstroke… (more…)

Waterford, MI -­ (press release excerpt) — The Linux Terminal Server Project team announce the immediate release of version 3.0 of the LTSP software package. The LTSP package has become the standard for running thin client computers on a Linux server. It provides an ideal solution for organizations who want to provide high quality computing solutions to networked users at the lowest possible cost. (more…)

Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Aduva, Inc. today announced that it has received a 14 million dollar capital infusion from BMC Software and the Intel 64 Fund along with previous investors Cap Ventures, Evergreen Management Limited and The Capital Group. Financial details of Aduva's C round of investment capital were not disclosed. (more…)

Fremont, CA — (press release excerpt) — ACCESS Systems America today announced that it now supports Trolltechs Qt/Embedded application development toolkit for ACCESS popular NetFront for Linux microbrowser. (more…)

Elphel, Inc. has used Embedded Linux in the design of a 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 Communications ETRAX RISC processor running Embedded Linux. (more…)

Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. announced today the availability of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Intel Itanium Processor, which features the Red Hat Linux 7.2 operating system with the 2.4 kernel and ext3 journaling file system. This configuration supports the very large address space of Itanium-based systems and scales efficiently to eight or more Itanium processors… (more…)

Las Vegas, NV; Consumer Electronics Show — (press release excerpt) — RealNetworks today launched the RealOne Consumer Electronics Acceleration Program. The program, which addresses both the needs of consumer electronics microprocessor companies and consumer electronics device companies, will work to bring the near DVD-quality video and CD-quality audio programming available through RealAudio and… (more…)

Here's some information about Microsoft's plans for “embedded .NET” in the consumer electronics market, courtesy of our friends in Redmond, WA. Microsoft PR writes . . . (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications, publisher of Embedded Linux Journal (ELJ), is pleased to announce a partnership with LinuxDevices.com to provide ELJ's exceptional editorial content to visitors of the popular LinuxDevices.com web site. ELJonline.com, a subsidiary of LinuxDevices.com, will feature the complete… (more…)

Seattle, WA — (press release excerpt) — SSC Publications, publisher of the bi-monthly print magazine Embedded Linux Journal (ELJ), is pleased to announce the third embedded Linux development contest, based on Linux4.TV. (more…)

In late November, 2001, an industry colleague, knowing that I had an interest in the competitive stance between Linux and Microsoft, sent me a document titled 'Partner Guide: Competing with Linux'. This document was produced by Microsoft in June 2001. It appears to be a training course for Microsoft partners who are obviously facing increasing competition from Linux. (more…)

By Joe Wilcox; special to ZDNet News . . .

Microsoft will take yet another step down the consumer electronics path on Monday with the demonstration of a customized version of Windows XP tuned to digital entertainment.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, which began Monday in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will show off a prototype consumer interface for Windows XP, code-named… (more…)

Writing at NewsForge.com Daniel P. Dern reports that Bluesocket's new wireless gateway contains an embedded Linux operating system. In the article, Bluesocket's CTO explains why they selected Embedded Linux rather than, for example, QNX, and what the perceived benefits of that decision were. Dern writes . . . (more…)

ZDNet's Richard Shim reports that after two years of secrecy, start-up Rearden Steel will jump into the home entertainment market today by announcing its first product (an Embedded Linux based set-top entertainment system) and a name change at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (more…)