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…)

John G. Spooner, of ZDNet News, reports that Intel is releasing an open source development kit for Universal Plug and Play support for Linux. This effort by Intel is part of it's Connected.Home initiative (info). Spooner writes . . . (more…)

Want to implement the essentials of a Linux-based Internet firewall or residential gateway using hardly more than a single chip? Austin, Texas startup Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. may have just what you need: the Au1000 “Internet Edge Processor”, unveiled earlier this week at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. (more…)

Most of us in the Linux Community are aware of the success Linux has been enjoying in the server market. Recent announcements by IBM, Intel, AMD etc about their continued support for Linux in their product offerings is great news and shows the industry is fully behind Linux in other areas beyond the server. (more…)

Red Hat has announced an agreement to purchase privately-held WireSpeed Communications Corporation (Huntsville, AL), for approximately 1.5M shares of Red Hat stock. WireSpeed, a developer of network and telecommunications software components for embedded systems, will be integrated into Red Hat's Client Services Group. (more…)

Mary Jo Foley and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, of ZDNet News, report on indications that SCO is preparing to enter the Linux market in a serious way. While SCO won't necessarily be a direct participant in the embedded Linux market space, the company certainly possesses the resources to quickly become a major Linux player, with far reaching implications to all Linux segments. (more…)

Santa Clara, CA — (press release) — Intel Corporation announced today that it is delivering its Common Open Policy Service (COPS) network configuration software technology to the industry. This action will help accelerate the growth of e-business by making networks better managed for more reliable delivery of enhanced network services. (more…)

Hilton Head, S.C. — (press release) — Intel Corporation's Microprocessor Research Lab today announced that it is working with a group of computer vision technology researchers to release a new computer vision library and its source code. The computer vision library will provide a wide range of functions, including gesture recognition, object-tracking, face recognition and camera calibration, that will… (more…)

InfoWorld editor Bob Metcalf writes about Kerbango's Linux-based Internet radio appliance. He reviews the entire history of radio, the key technologies involved in today's Internet radio revolution, and some of the features of Kerbango's novel invention. Metcalf writes . . . (more…)

Dallas, TX — (press release) — Coollogic Inc. today announced today it will license its Java-based, embedded Linux operating system to Acer for its family of Internet Appliance (IA) products. (more…)

Cirrus Logic used the occasion of the Embedded Processor Forum (San Jose, CA) to unveil the first public details of a new family of very high integration system-on-chip (SOC) devices. The first SOC in the new Maverick family is the EP9312 — a one-chip computer meant to enable cost-effective home audio jukeboxes and servers. (more…)

Lineo Industrial Solutions Group has released an open source Real-Time Common API that allows programmers to code to a common API when using either NMT RTLinux or DIPARM RTAI implementations of real-time Linux. The effort was undertaken subsequent to the Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Austria last December, in response to overwhelming sentiment at that conference in favor of a common real-time Linux… (more…)

Mary Jo Foley, of ZDNet News, writes about the growing trend among chipmakers to proactively support Linux. Foley spotlights recent Linux-related actions and announcements of Intel, HP, and AMD. Foley writes . . . (more…)

Sometimes technologies converge to produce a whole that's decidedly greater than the sum of its parts. Bus-Tech's highly flexible Embedded Linux Controller achieves just such a synergy. The highly flexible network appliance device consists of a relatively simple PowerPC based single-board computer with four PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) expansion sockets, packaged in a 1U rackmount package, and powered by… (more…)

Richard Santalesa, of ZDNet Help & How-To, writes about the TiVo Personal TV Receiver, an innovative TV receiver appliance with embedded Linux inside. Santalesa writes . . . (more…)