Neoware offers this definition of “Information Appliance” — a term that's beginning to receive widespread use . . . (more…)

Cambridge, UK — (BUSINESS WIRE) ARM today announced availability of the Prospector P-Series, a fully-integrated portable reference platform that provides system designers and third-party developers with rapid development, evaluation, and demonstration capabilities for ARM core-based designs. (more…)

King of Prussia, PA — (company press release) — Neoware Systems, Inc. today introduced the NeoLinux operating system, calling it “the first embedded Linux distribution designed specifically for business-to-business (B2B) information appliances.”

According to Michael Kantrowitz, president and CEO, Neoware Systems, “NeoLinux targets the emerging 'Appliance Computing' market, which consists… (more…)

GUELPH, Ontario, Canada — (BUSINESS WIRE) — EMJ Data Systems Ltd. today announces the establishment of white dwarf Inc. as an independent company from its embedded division. The spin off will allow white dwarf to receive independent financing. (more…)

“Last Fall, several companies in the newly emerging Embedded Linux market approached me to request that I help create a vendor-neutral Embedded Linux trade association. Initially, I used the resources of my newly established Embedded Linux Portal website (LinuxDevices.com) to propose the establishment of a group called the 'Embedded Linux Consortium', or 'ELC'. (more…)

King of Prussia, PA — (company press release) — Neoware Systems, Inc. today introduced “Eon — The Anything Box” — the first customizable Linux information appliance specifically designed for business-to-business (B2B) applications. (more…)

Dallas, TX — (company press release) — Coollogic Inc. announced today the launch of its e-Pilot 7000 Series, cost-effective, easy-to-use Internet access appliances that incorporate an advanced embedded Linux operating system that has solved the challenge of a reduced kernel size to fit small, memory-lean devices like set-top boxes. (more…)

Richard Barry reports in this story, on ZDNet UK, that Sony may be planning to use Linux plus a 2 GHz AMD Athelon processor inside its upcoming PlayStation3 game machine . . . (more…)

Fremont, Calif. -- Ateon Networks Inc. announced that it was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office a patent for “Providing Remote Storage for an Internet Appliance” on March 21, 2000. The three-month old Internet appliance company also released on Monday a Linux-based diskless server appliance, IA-2020, which incorporated the new patent in a DSL/Cable router and e-mail server without… (more…)

Mary Jo Foley writes at ZDNet.com . . .

“Big Blue promised earlier this year to port Linux to all its server platforms. But to many that commitment sounded like little more than a platitude.” (more…)

The current issue of Instrumentation & Control Systems (I&CS) magazine has a feature article on embedded and real-time Linux (written by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum) . . . (more…)

Mountain View, Calif. — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced an agreement with MIPS Technologies, Inc. aimed at expanding market acceptance of Linux in embedded systems by providing embedded Linux support for the MIPS architecture. (more…)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — iGS Technologies (iGST), a leading supplier of streaming media gateway chips for Internet appliances, advanced set-top boxes (STBs) and digital TV, today announced plans to offer enhanced Linux support for its CyberPro family of streaming media gateway chips. (more…)

Dallas, TX — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Coollogic Inc., today announced the launch of its e-Pilot 7000 Series — cost-effective, easy-to-use Internet access appliances. (more…)

An informative article at SunWorld discusses a new protocol family for mobile devices, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which has proposed as a standard for smart cell phones, pagers, wireless personal digital assistants. Rawn Shah writes, at SunWorld.com, . . . (more…)