To keep up with increasing demands for wireless phone coverage, Transcept, Inc. created a system on Linux that also helps keep the cost of coverage down. (more…)

CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that, after three months of operating as a single company, Turbolinux and Linuxcare have called off their merger because of difficulties joining the companies' finances and operations. Shankland writes . . . (more…)

Anywhere data needs to be stored and organized, a database is needed. Sid shows what's available. (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Annabooks Events, producers of the Applied Computing Conference and Expo today announced the keynote addresses that will be presented at this year's conference, scheduled for May 14-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. (more…)

Readers bite back.

Useful and Exciting (more…)

San Francisco — (press release excerpt) — CMP Media today announced the program for the Embedded Systems Conference Chicago, the Midwest's largest educational forum for embedded engineers, developers, and managers. With a special focus on automotive and industrial applications, the event's 90 classes and tutorials address the technical issues involved in building intelligence into everyday devices. (more…)

Use a CompactFlash card as a nonmechanical alternative to a disk drive. (more…)

Lombardo reveals the difference between developing a meaningful application and a doorstop. (more…)

Can Linux read your handwriting? Embedded Linux takes addresses to barcodes. (more…)

What Linux is doing for the highly proprietary embedded systems market is what the PuffinPLC will do for industrial automation. (more…)

Contest: Using the NIC as an Embedded System

Last August we started the idea of a contest where Embedded Linux Journal readers offer an idea, and we give them the hardware to build the system. That first contest was based on the MZ104 board. (more…)

Need to add video capture to your PC/104 system? Use an ISA board and save a bundle. (more…)

Porting programs like xfreecell from X to Nano-X.

Nowadays, it seems that when I've got an idea for a new program I want to write for Linux, if I search the Net, someone's already published an open-source version of it. Such was the case recently when I thought it'd really be fun to have a graphical solitaire game for Microwindows. (more…)

The organization team is proud to announce the talks of several well known people from the embedded Linux community (David Schleef, Comedi; Nicholas McGuire, Mini-RTL; Wolfgang Denk, PowerPC; and others). (more…)

According to this recent posting at gnome.org, there is a new embedded GNOME project in Japan aimed at supporting handheld computers (PDAs, etc.) . . . (more…)