Hannover, Germany; CeBIT — (press release excerpt) — Sharp Corp. and PacketVideo Corp. today announced a licensing agreement to integrate PacketVideo's industry-leading wireless multimedia delivery technology into Sharp's recently developed Linux-based wireless devices. (more…)

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At [a] CeBit news conference, the Japanese electronics giant [Sharp] showed off a handheld computer called the MultiMedia Tool, based on the Linux operating system, that can play MPEG4 videos and MP3 music. (more…)

Socorro NM — (press release excerpt) — FSMLabs has announced a kernel patch which will make RTLinux (and other real-time Linux variants) work reliably on the recent Linux 2.4 kernels. According to Michael Barabanov, FSMLabs principal systems engineer, a little-noticed change in Linux low-level memory management can produce increased timing uncertainties and unpredictable system errors in any Linux-based… (more…)

Hannover, Germany; CeBIT — (press release excerpt) — QNX Software Systems and Epson Europe Electronics today announced a technical alliance aimed at helping developers build compact, low-power embedded systems for applications such as in-car computers, network devices, and mobile test units. (more…)

Ericsson Business Innovation has announced the BLIP, a small self-contained Linux-based device that communicates wirelessly with mobile phones, PDAs, and other kinds of mobile devices that are equipped with Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. It's meant for use in shopping centers, airports, railway and bus stations, and other public places. (more…)

CNET editor Wylie Wong reports that after a year of pushing what many analysts said was a losing technology (HomeRF), Intel has now changed its tune and is instead backing Wi-Fi (a.k.a. 802.11B). Wong writes . . . (more…)

Ericsson Business Innovation has announced the BLIP, a small self-contained Linux-based device that communicates wirelessly with mobile phones, PDAs, and other kinds of mobile devices that are equipped with Bluetooth short-range wireless technology. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Hyundai Electronics America today announced its second generation of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, the HMS7202. The HMS30C7202, which is supported by Embedded Linux, is suitable as a low-power, high-performance processor for Internet appliances, wireless Internet terminals, PDAs, smart cellular phones, and music players. (more…)

The Open Group has announced the talks for the the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place on 25th-27th April, 2001, at the Maritim pro Arte Hotel in Berlin, Germany, co-located with The Open Group Quarterly Conference, the Wireless Enabled Enterprise. The Forum meeting takes the form of a general open plenary session on the Wednesday, followed by working group sessions all day Thursday,… (more…)

Following the recent unveiling of the Midori Linux Project by CPU vendor Transmeta, a number of analysts questioned whether Midori Linux might represent a threat to the commercial offerings of Embedded Linux software providers such as Lineo, MontaVista, Red Hat, LynuxWorks, and others — particularly in light of the presence of Linus Torvalds as a key employee at Transmeta. (more…)

San Clemente, CA — (press release) — the RTC Group has announced a four day hands-on Embedded Linux Developer's Workshop which will be held in Washington, D.C. on April 3-6, 2001. The workshop covers the entire process of building a complete custom version of Linux which includes an embedded application. (more…)

Lindon, UT — (press release excerpt) — Opersys and Lineo today announced the availability of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) 0.9.4. LTT 0.9.4 is the first complete version of LTT to support the PowerPC processor family running Linux and the Real-Time Applications Interface (RTAI) in addition to the currently supported x86 processor family. (more…)

Hanover, Germany — (press release excerpt) — SSV Embedded Systems is announcing a new PC/104 Embedded Linux Starterkit. The single board computer (SBC) within this kit is the Am486DX5-based CP/486DX2 with 16 MB DRAM and 2 or 4M Flash memory. The SBC also offers 2 serial ports, IDE interface, keyboard and floppy interface, as well as an NE2000-compatible Ethernet 10Base-T port with 10 Mbit/s transfer… (more…)

PC Magazine's Cade Metz reports on plans by HP and RealNetworks to produce a Linux-based streaming media appliance for consumer environments. Metz writes . . . (more…)

The Open Group Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum is meeting on Thursday 22 March in Brussels with a special session entitled “21st Century Real-time & Embedded Systems”. Readers of the LinuxDevices.com website are invited to attend as guests of The Open Group. If you are interested in attending please contact Chris Parnell. (more…)