San Jose, Calif. — (press release) — LynuxWorks, Inc. (formerly Lynx Real-Time Systems) today announced a joint marketing agreement with ZF Linux Devices Inc. to bundle LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux and development tools with ZF Linux' ZF MachZ Integrated Development System (IDS). (more…)

Compaq Computer Corporation today announced the Open Handheld Program, a new initiative designed to stimulate innovation and research on handheld devices. The new initiative is derived from Compaq Corporate Research's Itsy pocket computer project. The Open Handheld Program is intended to enable developers and researchers looking to explore applications and uses for handheld computing to experiment with… (more…)

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — (press release) — AMIRIX Systems Inc. today launched a new website, www.AMIRIXlinux.com, that features its latest offering, AMIRIX Embedded Linux. Visitors to the site will learn more about AMIRIX Embedded Linux and keep up-to-date on the company's Linux activities. (more…)

Chelmsford, MA — (press release) — Axis Communications has formed a new division chartered to assist OEMs in designing with Axis' highly integrated system-on-chip products and associated embedded Linux software. Axis products target new product concepts for network peripherals and emerging mobile devices. (more…)

Last Fall, embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) vendor Lynx Real-Time Systems announced an ambitious strategy to hitch its fortunes to the emerging Linux bandwagon. While continuing to promote its proprietary UNIX-like (POSIX compliant) LynxOS RTOS, Lynx embarked on a plan to embrace Linux in two ways: a new Linux based product, BlueCat Linux, which the company would aggressively promote, sell, and… (more…)

eWEEK columnist John Taschek takes a look at the tendency of certain companies to hang their hats — but not their core strategies — on Linux, in an effort to gain from the current wave of Linux popularity. Taschek writes . . . (more…)

San Jose, Calif. — (press release) — LynuxWorks, Inc. (formerly Lynx Real-Time Systems) today released version 2.0 of the BlueCat Linux operating system including substantial increases in overall functionality and feature enhancements. (more…)

DevelopOnline.com will be conducting two focus groups for Linux programmers at the Embedded Linux Expo & Conference in San Jose. The first focus group will be held at 7:00 p.m. June 21st, the evening before the conference. The second focus group will be held during lunch the day of the conference. (more…)

An official “Call for Votes” (CFV) is currently in progress for the creation of the USENET group: comp.os.linux.embedded (the discussion of the Linux operating system on embedded hardware). The vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. (more…)

This guest column by ZDNet News reader Charles Flink argues that software is no longer a product, but has now become a service. Flink offers some friendly advice to Linux software companies. Flink writes . . . (more…)

Europe — (announcement) — The Eurolinux Alliance of European software companies and OpenSource associations has launched a campaign to warn European legislators against the dangers of software patents. (more…)

ZDNet-UK editor Will Knight reports on some assistance Linux is providing to the Cambridge University DNA decoding project. The Linux isn't part of an embedded system, in this case, but the DNA certainly is ;) (more…)

eWEEK editor Ken Popovich reports on a panel discussion about Information Appliances at this week's Embedded Processor Forum held in San Jose, CA. The panel consisted of executives from Cirrus Logic, Microsoft, InfoGear, S3, and PictureIQ, and was moderated by Michael Slater of Cahners MicroDesign Resources. Popovich writes . . . (more…)

ZDNet's GAMESPOT channel has some interesting details about the forthcoming entertainment console from startup Indrema, which runs an embedded Linux OS. The L600 is expect to retail for $299.00. Shahed Ahmed writes . . . (more…)

(press release) — Indrema Corporation, the Open Source digital entertainment company, announced that Linux users will soon enjoy a wave of professional video applications thanks to an Open Source project called OpenStream. The OpenStream project is a collaboration of several development groups, including Indrema, LiViD, and other major Linux vendors soon to be announced working to create a new… (more…)