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Microsoft and Ford to bring Sync tech to European cars

...Ford Sync technology is based on Microsoft Auto, the Windows CE-based embedded OS, which is also used by Fiat for its Blue&Me system... Read more

1 March, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Compliance scheme aims to dispel open-source concerns

...spread". "Those of you who follow Linux know its use as an embedded OS has skyrocketed in recent memory, delivering a sea change in the... Read more

12 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Photos: The Motorola mobile for 'self-conscious' fieldworkers

...6.5.3 - but will transition to Windows Embedded Handheld, an upcoming embedded OS based on Windows Mobile 6.5 technologies that is targeted specifically... Read more

17 June, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Linux: Belle of info appliances?

...info apps, no one cares about the OS's brand name. "The embedded OS market is a place where users have no idea what operating... Read more

31 January, 2000 by Robert Lemos

WebPDA: A new handheld contender?

...potential device WebPDA. ISI will take a chief role in engineering the embedded OS, while Mitsubishi Electric is to develop silicon for the new portable... Read more

8 September, 1999 by Dave Wilby

Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS

Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is one of Redmond's first embedded operating systems to be optimised for a specific category of device Read more

16 June, 2008 by David Meyer

Internet fridges: Virus magnets?

Internet fridges, washing machines and other wired appliances are likely to be popular targets for virus writers, say some antivirus experts. But it may just be a load of spin Read more

12 July, 2002 by Matt Loney

Microsoft lures big names for embedded OS

Windows XP Embedded earns Microsoft some handy friends Read more

10 April, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

The Bloor Perspective: XP v Linux as an embedded OS, services in 2002, and surveying servers

...to explain why Windows XP should be the natural choice for an embedded OS. Naturally, the Linux contingent was never going to let that go... Read more

21 December, 2001 by Bloor Research
Streamlining the Embedded Linux Development Process

Streamlining the Embedded Linux Development Process

...has become the dominant choice for new development projects over any other embedded OS for many different reasons. This paper will outline the challenges of... Read more

1 September, 2009

XP Embedded launch casts NT4 on the scrap heap

Two-year-old embedded OS exits stage left... Microsoft has launched a version of its much... Read more

29 November, 2001 by Ian Jones

Dell to acquire Kace

...where patch management is essential. But why do I like them? Their embedded OS of course Read more

12 February, 2010

Less than an OS, less than free

...external storage (cameras, media players) is going to have to have an embedded OS of its own to run the Web server for the driver... Read more

25 November, 2009

Microsoft-TomTom suit puts open source on guard

The open-source community prepares to defend itself following Microsoft's 'antagonistic' patent litigation involving Linux Read more

27 February, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Blade PCs approach mass-market pricing

...RAM. In the new I/Port, ClearCube has removed the Windows XP Embedded OS, thereby cutting licensing charges. As with earlier I/Ports, the 8330... Read more

2 October, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

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