Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — Real-Time Innovations, Inc. today released StethoScope for Linux, a visualization tool for monitoring and analyzing embedded and real-time applications. (more…)

Today, Embedded Linux supplier Lineo announced that it has withdrawn its planned IPO due to current market conditions. Lineo will issue a formal statement later today regarding their decision; watch for it here, shortly. (more…)

The following statement was issued by Lineo this afternoon . . .

Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today filed a request with the SEC to pull Lineo's S-1 registration statement. (more…)

Michael Tiemann is the chief nerd at Red Hat, a company with more than your average number of nerds. But right now his job is to make sure technology doesn't get ahead of people's ability to use it. (more…)

Ed Sutter of Bell Labs has issued a status update on MicroMonitor, an embedded system boot/monitor utility (written by Sutter) which has been released by Bell Labs as open source software. A brief description of MicroMonitor is provided following the update information. (more…)

News Flash! Today, G.Mate posted the following message to comp.os.linux.embedded regarding impending availability of Yopy development kits. See this Yopy Device Profile for info about the Yopy. (more…)

Phoenix, AZ — (press release excerpt) — VME board manufacturer ACTIS Computer has released a PowerQUICC II based single board computer that runs Embedded Linux and is targeted at the communication and embedded control market. (more…)

Last year, Linuxcare acquired Prosa, the Italian Linux company that developed an embedded Linux distribution called EtLinux. Several months ago, Linuxcare announced that they were shutting down their European operations — apparently leaving the former Prosa team, and EtLinux, somewhat adrift. (more…)

Anyone who has been closely following Linux knows the 2.4.0 announcement isn't really a big deal. This ZDNet column by Evan Leibovitch examines the significance of the latest major Linux release. Leibovitch writes . . . (more…)

Foreword: the italicized text below comes from the introduction to a previous LinuxDevices.com article about the launch of Ascensit, a new Italian Linux supplier that specializes in both enterprise and embedded Linux. (more…)

Today, DaimlerChrysler unveiled its newest concept car at the North American International Auto Show: the Dodge Super8 Hemi “all-American sedan” — with Linux and Java inside. (more…)

Kansas City, MO — (press release excerpt) — Arcom has announced that Espial has selected the Arcom SBC-Geode-GXM based EBX form-factor single-board computer board as the hardware basis of the Espial TotalIA, a Linux+Java based Internet appliance reference platform. (more…)

Washington, DC — (press release excerpt) — PenguinRadio, Inc. has just announced that they have commissioned JB Design of Petworth, United Kingdom, the design team behind the highly successful empeg car player, to develop the PenguinRadio for mass production. (more…)

Delphi Automotive Systems has selected Red Hat's eCos operating system to be the software platform for a new family of in-vehicle information appliances and embedded telematics systems. The first Delphi product to use eCos will be the Mobile Productivity Center (MPC), an in-car platform that enables hands-free operation of PDAs and cell phones. (more…)

Redmond, WA — (press release excerpt) — Conversay, a specialist in speech technology solutions for fixed and mobile Internet access devices, will provide the speech interface for the new Linux-based Yopy PDA, making it the first Linux PDA to employ a speech interface. (more…)