This article, by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum, provides a detailed “sneak preview” of Screen Media's soon-to-be-released FreePad — including its features, functions, and internal hardware/software — and also examines the background and motivations of the company that is bringing the FreePad to market, including Screen Media's reasons for selecting Linux and philosophy with respect to open source… (more…)

Cambridge MA — (press release excerpt) — SyncML, the initiative sponsored by mobile technology industry leaders Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Psion, Palm, Inc. and Starfish Software, today provided further evidence that the world is one step closer to universal data synchronization of remote data and personal information across multiple networks, platforms and devices. (more…)

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) announced Indium, a small form-factor Server Appliance board that fits within a standard half-height 5.25-inch drive bay. Multiple Indium boards can fit in a 1U rack mount chassis. The Indium Server Appliance board is basically a single-board computer in a 5.5″ x 8.5″ format, with onboard CPU, memory, dual-Ethernet, dual-USB, dual-SCSI ports, dual-serial, a VGA CRT/LCD… (more…)

(press release) — elc technologies has just released PiranhaWAP, an open source WAP/WML-enabled server status reporting product. PiranhaWAP allows displaying real-time system information such as uptime, load average, and memory information on WAP/WML-enabled devices such as cellular phones and PDAs. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — – LinkUp Systems Corp., providers of system-on-chip processor plus peripherals solutions for the Internet appliance and consumer electronics market, and PalmPalm Technology, a leader in embedded Linux, today announced that the LinkUp L7200 system development board will support PalmPalm's Tynux Linux-based operating system. (more…)

In a few months, Screen Media will begin shipping a sleekly designed, easy-to-use wireless web-pad device called the FreePad. Like Ericsson's Screen Phone, the FreePad will offer web browsing and cordless telephone functions. (more…)

Los Angeles, CA — (press release) — Bluepoint Linux Software presented its strategy for embedded Linux and Information Appliance product development at its Year 2000 New Product Release Conference, held last week in the Friendship Hotel in Beijing. Mr. Yu Deng, president of Bluepoint, spoke about Bluepoint Embedded Linux and its applications in the Information Appliance market. (more…)

Mark Hachman, writing at TechWeb News, reports that S3 has established an internal subsidiary to develop and sell Crusoe-based Internet Appliances. The product line appears likely to include an Embedded Linux based web pad. Hachman writes . . . (more…)

Linux Journal has “gone embedded” in a big way, for its September issue! The special Embedded Linux issue contains numerous articles on a wide range of embedded Linux applications and issues. (more…)

San Francisco — (press release) — ZDNet, which operates the leading network of Web sites for people who want to buy, use and learn about technology, today announced that it has acquired Linux Hardware Database (www.linhardware.com), the leading Linux hardware support resource, from Cambridge, MA based DataPower Technology, Inc. (more…)

San Jose, CA — (press release) — 5NINE, a developer of Wireless Data Infrastructure (WIS/I) technology for Linux, has announced the launch of WMLBrowser.org, an open source development project for creating a Wireless Markup Language (WML) Browser to work with all types of Linux environments. (more…)

Reuters reports on Microsoft's development of Solo2, a powerful new chip to run its WebTV interactive television service . . . (more…)

You're invited to participate in the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum in San Jose in February 2001. This two-day meeting is designed to bring together leading vendors of Real-time and Embedded Systems with corporate and government customers. (more…)

This is ZDNet's “other” Linux Newsletter (the non-embedded one), published weekly by ZDNet's Linux Resource Center. This week, the ZDNet Linux Newsletter contains some interesting coverage about LinuxWorld Expo, held last week in San Jose, CA . . . (more…)

Cade Metz, of PC Magazine, has written an article comparing AMD's Duron to Intel's Celeron. The device is a relatively inexpensive processor with relatively high (700 MHz) clock speeds. (Hey — what ever happened to the good old days when chips were named 186, 286, 386, 486 . . .) Metz writes . . . (more…)