Ieper, Belgium and Burlington, MA — (press release excerpt) — Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) Speech Products NV has announced the availability of the L&H RealSpeak Compact Software Development Kit (SDK). The new SDK, which supports Linux and Windows CE based systems, makes high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) technology available for a broad spectrum of electronic devices and vertical markets. (more…)

I first heard about Embedded Linux last summer at an embedded Internet workshop. I was standing near the Embedded Linux Consortium's exhibit area, when John Lombardo introduced himself to me and asked if I had any suggestions for small off-the-shelf x86 systems that could be used as the basis of a Linux-based home router appliance he was developing. (more…)

Lineo, Inc. today announced the closing of a strategic investment round of $20 million, bringing the overall investment total in Lineo to $57 million. According to a statement released by Lineo, the key participants in this round of financing were Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Ltd. (more…)

ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe has issued the following call for papers for the Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference Summit, to be held in Milan, Italy on November 27-28 . . . (more…)

Patrick Mannion of EE Times reports that Bluetooth seems to be falling by the wayside, if presentations and comments at the IEEE Rawcon technical conference are any indication of support. Mannion writes . . . (more…)

According to a Reuters news item published by the Times of India, the low-cost, open-licensed handheld computer known as the Simputer is being readied for a November roll-out by its first manufacturer, Encore Software Ltd. Quoting from the Reuters story . . . (more…)

Embedded Linux is currently the third most popular embedded operating system — behind Wind River's VxWorks and Microsoft's MS-DOS — and may leap-frog into the #1 position as soon as next year, according to a new report on embedded software trends published last month by software market analyst Evans Data Corporation. (more…)

The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KDevelop 2.0 as part of the release of KDE 2.2. KDevelop is the leading Linux/UNIX integrated development environment (IDE) for C/C++ development. KDevelop provides professional programs with powerful tools for rapid development and design of sophisticated C/C++ applications. (more…)

By Sandeep Junnarkar and Ian Fried; special to ZDNet News . . .

Palm announced on Thursday that it is acquiring the technology assets and intellectual property of software maker Be for $11 million in stock, in a move aimed at strengthening its operating system to compete against Microsoft. (more…)

CNET News.com's Richard Hart interviews Red Hat Chairman Bob Young about the history of Linux, in this interesting online video. Young reflects on the growth and evolution of Linux over the past decade, and explains why he believes open source software provides the best software business model. (Length: approx. 6 minutes) (more…)

InfoWorld editor Ephraim Schwartz attended a demonstration of IBM's TechMobile at the IBM developer conference in San Francisco this week, and reports on some of the cutting-edge technologies that are included in the futuristic IBM demo. The TechMobile, as reported previously, contains a Linux/Java embedded software… (more…)

By Paul Festa; special to ZDNet News . . .

The goal of making the Web act more like television has inched closer to reality with the revision of a key multimedia standard. (more…)

By Ian Fried; special to ZDNet News . . .

It was 10 years ago this month that a 21-year-old Linus Torvalds sent an e-mail to the open-source software community saying an experimental version of the Linux kernel, the core technology that would end up embodied in Linux operating systems, was up and running. (more…)

eWEEK's Peter Galli reports on several high-powered, pro-Linux keynote talks at IBM's annual developer conference held in San Francisco this week. Galli writes . . . (more…)

Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Tuxia today announced that STMicroelectronics has chosen Tuxia's TASTE (Tuxia Appliance Synthesis Technology) embedded Linux software line to provide an application framework and operating system for STMicroelectronics' Web terminal and thin client terminal reference designs based on its STPC family of x86 PC-compatible System-on-Chip (SOC) microprocessors. (more…)