This article argues that the shift towards web services has reduced the attractiveness of the current generation of Open Source web products. The only solution is for Open Source to adopt a web services architecture, and fast. Fortunately, there is one at hand, and it's not dotGNU! Can the Open Sourcers wake up and save the world before it is too late? Read on to find out. (more…)

It's the applications, stupid!

Synopsis: This article argues that the shift towards web services has reduced the attractiveness of the current generation of Open Source web products. The only solution is for Open Source to adopt a web services architecture, and fast. (more…)

Phoenix, AZ — (press release excerpt) — ACTIS Computer has released a new high-integration single board computer based on Motorola's MPC860T PowerQUICC Communication Processor. The SBC-6860-W features a unique combination of wired and wireless networking, communication, and I/O expandability on a compact 9.2 x 6.3 in. (more…)

Bob Findlay, of the SIMPL project, provided this announcement of project status . . .

The SIMPL project, which aims to bring Send/Receive/Reply (QNX style) messaging to Linux developers, now has a sourceforge.net presence. The project which is currently at version 1.4.10, provides an LGPL'd static library (14k) or a dynamic library. (more…)

Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software today released Opera 5.05 for Linux Technology Preview (TP). The browser updates the current final version of Opera 5.0 for Linux by adding support for Netscape plug-ins including Java, giving Linux users a faster, better, and less bloated Internet experience while enjoying their favorite plug-ins for video, audio, document viewing, animation and… (more…)

Jupiter, FL — (press release excerpt) — GEAR Software today announced the release of GEAR Pro for Unix 4.1. The new product introduces CD and DVD recording for Unix with a graphical user interface and “drag and drop” burning of files and directories to optical disc. Used in combination with DVD-R(W), DVD-RAM and CD-R(W) hardware, GEAR Pro for Unix gives the user both graphical interface and command-line… (more…)

This article by Bryce Nakatani explains how Linux is being put to work in “real world” applications like industrial control and home automation using networked I/O modules such as those made by Opto 22. Nakatani writes . . . (more…)

Embedded Linux in the Physical World

The use of embedded Linux is growing in the industrial automation industry, making the control and monitoring of machinery no longer the exclusive domain of proprietary systems. Also driving this growth is the need to gather information, often on the fly, from an ever increasing number of Ethernet- and Internet-aware devices. (more…)

Santa Rosa, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC) today announced the results of its annual board of director's election. The ELC's 120+ members voted from a field of 16, electing seven. The board is responsible for steering the organization's recent move into platform standardization and an aggressive promotional mission throughout the world. (more…)

Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — Tuxia today announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Tvia Inc., a provider of streaming media gateway processors for Internet appliances, broadband set-top boxes, and digital televisions. As a result of the new partnership, Tuxia's TASTE, a small, fast, and stable embedded Linux platform for information appliances, will be integrated with Tvia's… (more…)

In recognition of the 20th birthday of the PC, IBM has published an article tracing the “personal computing revolution” from the introduction of the first IBM PC in 1981 to the present. The article presents a year-by-year illustrated timeline plotting the evolution of the PC through all its many phases, and concludes with IBM's predictions of a coming era of “pervasive computing.”

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Scottsdale, AZ — (press release excerpt) — As the rapid development of palm-top computing and digital cellular telephony continues, and the resulting demand for lightweight information appliances increases, the Java VM (Virtual Machine) market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 83.5% from 2000 to 2005, according to a report just released by hi-tech research firm (more…)

Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software announced the release of the final desktop version of Opera 5.2 for QNX, making the QNX version available to the general public for the first time. Opera 5.2 for QNX is the first Opera version to support Unicode, enabling the display of non-Latin characters. (more…)

The IBM alphaWorks team treated LinuxDevices.com to a sneak preview today of a technology demonstration that will be unveiled publicly next week at IBM's Solutions Developer Conference in San Francisco, and later this month at LinuxWorld (also in San Francisco) (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet News . . .

The National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53 million to build a grid that connects supercomputer clusters across the country into a single large computing resource called the Distributed Terascale Facility. (more…)