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Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Embedded Linux vendors can fit the OS in about 500 kilobytes of memory, but it's still a challenge to build a user interface and integrate applications such as a Web browser, MontaVista's Weinberg said.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Embedded Linux Alive And Kicking
News MontaVista is among several companies betting that money can be extracted from the embedded OS market using Linux, a clone of Unix used chiefly in servers. The embedded-OS market is rife with competition.
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
Motorola Takes Linux Into The Mobile Mainstream
News Support for Linux in embedded applications has been steadily gaining in momentum, as witnessed by several developments this year. But while the open source movement for handheld devices has been going strong, research shows that for now, Linux for...
[July 31, 2006, 12:35]
Opinion: Mobile Linux For Bluetooth - Spanner For Microsoft?
News The thought of a mobile version of Linux with embedded Bluetooth is a little daunting particularly for the Microsoft camp. It's just a matter of waiting for mobile devices with embedded Bluetooth technology and then letting the developers design...
[May 11, 1999, 8:33]
Java Flaw Opens Windows, Linux To Attack
News The exploit itself can't be easily embedded in email, because Java applets contained in email aren't normally started automatically. The advisories from Sun, Secunia and Pynnonen do not address whether the problem could affect Apple's Mac OS X...
[November 24, 2004, 8:40]
Windows CE 6 Released To Beta
News As part of Microsoft's moves to counter open-source rivals like Linux in the embedded space, developers can also access millions of lines of Windows CE source code under Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative.
[May 11, 2006, 10:00]
Symbian Shipments Rise Amid Doubts Over Future
News The Symbian OS, like Microsoft Windows CE, the Palm OS and embedded versions of Linux, brings handheld computer features to mobile phones. Most established mobile phone makers have licensed the Symbian OS, while PalmSource and Microsoft have teamed...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Japanese Giants To Cooperate On Linux
News Linux -- a moderately successful desktop alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system -- is currently a growing in force as an embedded OS for electronic devices. The Japanese consumer electronics companies hope to develop a Linux inspired...
[July 13, 2000, 13:51]
Linux Heads For Mobile Phones
News Companies including MontaVista Software, TimeSys, Red Hat, LynuxWorks and Motorola are all trying to adapt the software for the embedded computing market, which includes mobile phones and other consumer-electronics products and devices.
[January 13, 2003, 8:55]
Microsoft Tweaks 'shared Source' For Windows CE
News In a highly touted announcement late on Wednesday, Microsoft expanded its existing "shared source" programme for Windows CE, its OS for "embedded" devices, which include everything from handheld computers to mobile phones to sewing machines.
[April 10, 2003, 8:20]
Novell Considers Embedded Linux
News Novell, which sells Linux for servers and desktop computers, is considering a move into the market for embedded computing for devices such as mobile phones and vending machines. The company is thinking over a choice of developing its own technology...
[March 25, 2004, 7:45]
ARM And Microsoft Tie Up Chip Makers At Summit
News Windows CE is the basis for Microsoft's embedded software products, including Pocket PC, Windows for Smartphones and others, and competes directly with the Palm OS and embedded versions of Linux, as well as a variety of established embedded...
[September 17, 2003, 17:50]
IDC: Modest IT Growth This Year
News Gantz predicted significant Linux growth in "embedded " applications--built-in software used to govern devices ranging from vending machines to factory robots--and certain segments of high-performance workstations.
[January 4, 2002, 9:06]
Sun And The North Pole Net
News And with Web services functionality embedded in its core, it will minimise the number of tantrums thrown on Christmas morning caused by order processing errors and unnecessary delivery delays. Solaris is a proven performer in extreme environments...
[December 30, 2002, 9:56]
Embedded Linux Developer Buys UK Companies
News Ian Graham, the director of professional services for MontaVista Software, who used to head both MontaVista Limited and Liberté, said: "With the increase in EMEA capability and focus, we are now well positioned to address the growing demand for...
[April 25, 2007, 13:05]
Yamaha, NEC Back Linux Start-up
News In the embedded market, Linux competes with Wind River Systems' VxWorks and Microsoft Windows XP Embedded. These tools let customers create a version of the embedded OS that is tuned to the needs of their particular device, with support for options...
[November 22, 2002, 9:53]
Motorola Unveils First Linux Smartphone
News Motorola's involvement with embedded Linux extends beyond mobile phones. Last December, the company's Metrowerks subsidiary moved to increase its ability to supply software and development tools for non-PC gadgets with the acquisition of Embedix...
[August 22, 2003, 16:30]
Crusoe Chip Mystery To Be Revealed
News A not-so-secret message, embedded in the HTML code of the company's Web site, proclaims that "Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. A device maker could use Crusoe in any number of products, because in theory it would...
[January 17, 2000, 8:56]
OpenGL 1.4 Unveiled
News SGI also said that it and Nokia have agreed to develop a 3D standard for all embedded mobile devices, based on OpenGL. Many companies are working to implement 3D in mobile devices, but an OpenGL-based standard would make it easier for developers...
[July 16, 2002, 15:35]
N+I: Broadcom In ARM Tie-up
News ARM, the UK embedded chip designer, has struck a deal to include its processor core designs in future chips from Broadcom, the high-profile communications chip maker. The core includes Jazelle, ARM's Java-acceleration hardware, a memory managmenet...
[May 7, 2002, 12:05]
