CNET's Todd Volz describes some of the more interesting exhibits he saw at last week's LinuxWorld Expo in New York City. Volz writes . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum takes his customary “walk on the embedded side” of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo held last week in New York City. In this article, Lehrbaum describes what he observed and gives his impressions of current trends in Embedded Linux — the next big frontier for Linux . . . (more…)

Rebecca Buckman, of the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, reports that Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is preparing to announce an alliance with several semiconductor makers that will allow them to develop customized chips for devices running embedded versions of Microsoft's operating systems. Buckman writes . . . (more…)

In a column that will warm the hearts of open source partisans and leave everyone contemplating the impending end of the software market as we know it, ZDNet's Evan Leibovitch sketches in broad strokes the patterns of history that have brought us here, to the eve of “the Redmond Giant's” fall. Leibovitch writes . . . (more…)

Peter Clarke reports in EE Times that momentum is slowly building for freely available open-source processors, the semiconductor market's equivalent of open-source software. Clarke writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release exerpt) — Rappore Technologies, Inc. and LynuxWorks, Inc. announced today that they have ported Rappore's Bluetooth technology to LynuxWorks's BlueCat embedded Linux. Furthermore, Rappore has joined the LynuxWorks SynergyWorks alliance program and is the first Bluetooth technology company to join. (more…)

Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — an inside look at today's top PC processors and an in-depth look into information appliances are the subjects of two half-day Microprocessor Report seminars to be presented March 15 in Santa Clara, California by MicroDesign Resources (MDR), publishers of Microprocessor Report. (more…)

ZDNet UK's Will Knight reports that Bluetooth — the short-range wireless technology designed to replace cables — is just beginning to trickle onto the market in Europe, but at the LinuxWorld show in New York a number of vendors were already showing off new wireless hardware running Linux. Knight writes . . . (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced immediate availability of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, (J2ME) Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation profile for Linux. Together, these components of the J2ME form a platform for networked devices in the home, auto and factory floor. (more…)

Carlisle, MA — (press release excerpt) — Sleepycat Software Inc. today released its latest version of the award-winning open source embedded database Berkeley DB. The release includes a new port to the QNX realtime platform, as well as to all major UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems. (more…)

The following “letter to the editor” from Compaq's Western Research Laboratory relates to the recent announcement by ADS claiming the first sleep mode support for the StrongARM processor . . . (more…)

During LinuxWorld in New York City this past week, a new version of Bayonne, the telephony application server of the GNU project, demonstrated web integrated call center functionality supporting Intel/Dialogic telephony hardware and the GNU/Linux Dialogic SDK. This new version is now available for immediate download from
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Big Mouth Billy Bass as a webcam? This and 99 other projects have been announced as finalists in Embedded Linux Journal's “Win an MZ104 — Embedded Linux Design Contest”. The contest is based on products by Tri-M, ZF Micro Devices, BlueCat, and M-Systems. (more…)

Henry Kingman, senior producer of ZDNet's Linux Resource Center, attended a session at LinuxWorld Expo in New York and filed this report . . . (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Insignia Solutions announced today that it will offer its accelerated, Java-compatible Jeode Embedded Virtual Machine (EVM) technologies to design engineers and Linux programming developers on DevelopOnline.com, an online development center designed to accelerate product time to market. (more…)