In this entertaining online article from Linux Journal magazine, John D. Biggs relates his adventure with getting his iPAQ running again after accidentally trashing its bootloader during an upgrade of its OS with PocketLinux. Biggs' iPAQ adventure takes him to Compaq's Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge, MA, where he gets the device fixed and meets some of the folks who support Linux on the… (more…)

Scotts Valley, CA — (press release excerpt) — Seagate Technology today announced the addition of Linux OS supports to its SeaTools Enterprise Edition system diagnostic software. Seagate's Enterprise Edition is part of the SeaTools Suite, a group of user-invoked diagnostic applications that provide quick, easy and accurate diagnosis of hard drives within a system. (more…)

HomeRF-based wireless networking technology, which is playing catch-up with archrival 802.11b standard, moved a key step forward with the announcement of the first shipping products to match 802.11b's 10 Mbps speed, according to Yardena Arar, writing at PCWorld.com. Arar writes . . . (more…)

Recently a committee was created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to develop a new standard called 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), which will use the Bluetooth standard as its foundation. Once developed, the 802.15 specification will provide a common standard that has broad market applicability, as more wireless devices will interoperate with each other. (more…)

Margaret Kane and Mike Ricciuti, writing at CNET News.com, report that a new and controversial proposal under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium could open the way for companies to claim patent rights — and demand royalties — on standards authorized by that body. Kane and Ricciuti write . . . (more…)

Ottawa, Canada — (press release excerpt) — Espial today announced the availability of Espial DeviceTop version 3.0. Designed to be compliant with the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) service platform specification, the… (more…)

Our friends at Microsoft sent along this note regarding the Windows Embedded Partner Readiness Tour event taking place today in San Jose, CA . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release) — DeviceForge LLC today announced that it will acquire the LinuxDevices.com “Embedded Linux Portal” website from CNET Networks, Inc. The two companies have also formed a strategic relationship through which they will continue to share content and provide links to each others' sites. (more…)

Boise, ID — (press release excerpt) — RidgeRun, Inc., a specialist in embedded Linux software for products employing digital signal processors (DSPs), launched a Japanese-language site to further extend DSP-centric embedded Linux solutions to the growing Asian markets and augment the RidgeRun K.K. sales and support subsidiary in Osaka, Japan. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — PLX Technology, Inc. today announced a PCI software development kit (SDK) to provide broad support for Linux and Windows Me operating systems in products using PLX PCI silicon. The new PLX PCI SDK Pro v3.3 brings Windows Me support for the first time to all PLX I/O Accelerator and I/O Processor chips, and adds Linux support for an additional three PLX devices,… (more…)

John G. Spooner of ZDNet News reports that Intel today launched a set of new low-power Pentium III-M chips. Spooner writes . . . (more…)

The Project Founder of the Linux System Integration Certification Project requested that we make the following announcement available to the LinuxDevices.com developer community . . . (more…)

Kirchheim, Germany — (press release excerpt) — NetSilicon, Inc., Micronas GmbH, and FS Forth-Systeme GmbH today announced their cooperation in developing a high-performance MP3 Internet radio application, called NetworkAudio. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — ArTile Microsystems, Inc. has announced the first in a MIPS-based high-performance system-on-chip (SOC) family that targets the convergence of consumer digital media and information applications. The TMPR7901B incorporates a multimedia-enhanced RISC processor core with instruction and data cache memories, PCI and Ethernet interfaces, timers, and memory… (more…)

REDSonic announced its entry into the MIPS Alliance Program, in an effort to leverage the success of the popular MIPS32 architecture in the high-growth digital consumer and networking markets. REDSonic has developed a board support package (BSP) for MIPS Technologies' Malta board, a MIPS32 architecture-based software development platform. (more…)