Sony has posted an online survey to guage interest in making a PS2 Linux kit available in the US. The introduction to the survey says . . . (more…)

Total Impact recently introduced a tiny Power-PC based Linux system, called the “briQ”, that has the same dimensions as a standard 5.25-inch CD-ROM drive. With its built-in Ethernet LAN interface and front-mounted 2 x 24 character display and control pushbuttons, the briQ implements a completely self-contained Linux… (more…)

By Matthew Broersma, ZDNet UK . . .

NASA's Ames Research Center is building a “personal satellite assistant”, powered by a Pentium III with the Linux operating system, to help out astronauts on space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) missions. (more…)

In this “device profile”, LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum takes a look at the briQ, a tiny PowerPC based Linux system that matches the dimensions of a 5.25-inch CD-ROM drive. Lehrbaum writes . . . (more…)

In this interview with Lineo's chief operating officer, Matt Harris, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum asks Harris to explain Lineo's Open Source philosophy, clarify Lineo's Embedded Linux licensing policies, and comment on Lineo's contributions to Open Source. (more…)

In this interview with Lineo's chief operating officer, Matt Harris, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum asks Harris to explain Lineo's Open Source philosophy, clarify Lineo's Embedded Linux licensing policies, and comment on Lineo's contributions to Open Source. (more…)

Hewlett-Packard Company announces the launch of an Open Source project called “CoolBase” today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego. CoolBase is a group of software and hardware technologies that together form a platform on which mobile e-services for embedded personal systems can be implemented as part of HP Lab's… (more…)

By Stephen Shankland; special to ZDNet News . . .

Hewlett-Packard will release several components of its “Cooltown” software project as open source Monday, hoping to spur interest in the company's vision for a world filled with interconnected computing gadgets. (more…)

Austin, TX — (press release excerpt) — Wincor Nixdorf Inc. today announced that The Home Depot has chosen the BEETLE/Mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) platform for supporting their mobile inventory management applications in the company's Expo Design Center stores. Wincor Nixdorf's Mobile POS incorporates a standard BEETLE… (more…)

By Matthew Broersma; ZDNet UK . . .

Microsoft has made the source code of its Windows CE 3.0 embedded operating system available to developers in a bid to compete with the “open source” software development model that has become popular in recent years. (more…)

Lincoln, MA — (press release excerpt) — Sleepycat Software, Inc. today announced the availability of Berkeley DB version 3.3 for immediate download from the company's website. Version 3.3 adds key features for high availability (HA), significant performance enhancements, and support for the Lineo Embedix embedded Linux operating system. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — LynuxWorks Inc. today announced that the company has validated its SpyKer trace analyzer tool with several popular Linux distributions, including BlueCat, Red Hat, Debian and SuSE. The tool enables systems developers of both enterprise and embedded Linux applications to understand their system operation in both development and deployed systems. (more…)

LinuxDevices.com takes a look at Isamu, a humanoid robot.

Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system. (more…)

In a recent study, embedded systems market analyst Venture Development Corporation reports that although certain segments of the embedded market have been slow to adopt Microsoft's “Windows Embedded” operating systems, the software giant is beginning to gain ground with Windows CE (Pocket PC) in the consumer electronics segment. (more…)

Meet Isamu, the humanoid robot

Isamu stands 53 inches tall, weighs 121 pounds, and walks at over one mile per hour. Not only that, Isamu climbs up and down stairs, carries 4-pound objects in its hand-like grippers, and even recognizes human faces via its dual-camera stereo vision system. (more…)