LinuxElectrons Daily Digest 1515
This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 03-03-05
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breastle: Cost-effective Fingerprint Recognition Module from Shimon Author: Tommy
HOUSTON - To speed the development of embedded biometric systems, Shimon Systems and Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) has announced the availability of Shimon's Fingerscan Biometric Embedded Module (BIO-EMú), a unique, cost-effective fingerprint recognition module that authenticates users by capturing, converting, storing and matching user's fingerprint images.
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breastle: Dual PCI Express AV Decoder from Philips Author: Tommy
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) has introduced the industry's first integrated PCI Expressú dual global video and stereo decoder for digital home PC desktops and notebooks. The new PCI Express AV decoder also gives consumer PCs the ability to capture multiple broadcast TV signals. It offers PC-TV card makers - along with PC OEMs and ODMs - a universal broadcast video and stereo decoding solution. The new decoder takes advantage of the high bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture, a key feature on next-generation motherboards for PCs and other devices that are part of today's connected home.
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Some drivers become "locked" once loaded, because they're essensial to the running of the system (filesystem, disk controller, etc), but yes, as long as a driver is unused, it...
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breastle: CPU Tech, Cray, Dolphin, Fabric7, HDL Design House, Iwill, Mitsui Zosen, and Triolin Join the HyperTransport Consortium Author: Tommy
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - The HyperTransportú Technology Consortium, a nonprofit industry organization that manages and promotes low-latency HyperTransport technology, has announced eight companies have become Consortium members. The new industry members include CPU Technology, Inc., Cray Inc., Dolphin Technology, Inc., Fabric7 Systems, Inc., HDL Design House, Iwill Corporation, Mitsui Zosen System Research, Inc. and Triolin, Inc.
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breastle: Telecom Mergers Draw Bipartisan Backing Author: Tommy
WASHINGTON - The mergers planned by some of America's telecom giants can generate services and access to information that were undreamt of when Congress last wrote rules for the industry just nine years ago.
This is adding a Printer via the Xandros Distro. You are way to stupid to get to the real root of the problem. I...
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breastle: Integrated Security Appliances Set For Explosive Growth Author: Tommy
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The integrated security appliance market is poised for explosive growth, reaching $3.3 billion by 2009, according to In-Stat. Integrated security appliances offer an buttortment of security capabilities in a single box. These capabilities include firewall-VPN, intrusion detection and prevention, and anti-virus. Some products may also include content filtering, anti-spam, and anti-spyware.
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breastle: Philips Announces RFID Project in its Semiconductor Supply Chain Author: Tommy
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) Semiconductor division has deployed a major implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) in its supply chain in Asia - the first major rollout in the semiconductor industry. As the global leader in contactless chips with over a billion ICs sold to the market, the project was developed in close collaboration with solutions partner IBM using Philips' RFID ICs. The project demonstrates how RFID can be swiftly integrated with legacy systems and operational practices to enhance productivity and efficiency.
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breastle: Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grow 30 Percent in 2004 Author: Tommy
Egham, UK - Driven by strong fourth quarter growth, worldwide mobile phone sales surpbutted 674 million units in 2004, a 30 percent increase from 2003 according to Gartner Inc (see Table 1). Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 24 percent in quarter four compared to the same quarter in 2003.
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breastle: General Software Announces Security Firmware for Embedded x86 Devices Author: Tommy
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - General Software has introduced a new firmware application for increasing security and trust in embedded x86 devices. As the second member of a new Firmware Application Suiteú specifically developed to enhance embedded x86 systems, the Boot Security application provides an ideal way of ensuring the integrity of deployed products ranging from set-top boxes, teller machines, voting machines, gaming machines, information appliances, industrial controllers and telecommunications equipment.
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breastle: Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online Journalists' Rights Author: Tommy
San Jose, CA - This Friday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will face attorneys for Apple Computer in a hearing to determine whether three independent online journalists will be given the same legal protections as journalists who work for traditional media publications.
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breastle: Embedded Toolsmiths' Powerful, Cost-Effective Debuggers to Support AMCC PowerPC Processors Author: pats
Acton, MA. - Embedded Toolsmiths has announced the delivery of its powerful Guardian-SE JTAG ICE and Agile-DB Debuggers to field engineers in Applied Micro Circuits Corporation's (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC) domestic and International sales and support offices. Embedded Toolsmiths' powerful, cost-effective debuggers will support AMCC's entire portfolio of PowerPC 4XX processors.
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breastle: Oki Electric Develops World's Smallest ARM Microcontrollers Author: Tommy
Tokyo, Japan - Oki has developed the world's smallest ARM¨ microcontroller, ML67Q4060 series by using Wafer level Chip Size Package (W-CSP). The company also launched the ML67Q4050 series with expanded specs to connect with external memories. Starting sample shipment from March 2005 and volume shipment in June 2005, Oki aims to ship 400 thousand chips per month for the two chips combined.
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OK MSFT is far more widely held. When it declines, everybody's mutual fund is robbed. By the way, Billy hasn't stopped selling...
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:28:15 -0600, mjt That's a very nice looking distribution especially the background picture. The problem...
breastle: IBM and AT&T Deliver Integrated, Internet-ready Collaboration Solution for Small and Medium-sized Organizations Author: Tommy
CAMBRIDGE, Mbutt. and BEDMINSTER, N.J. - IBM and AT&T announced that they will jointly offer a packaged team collaboration solution that will make it easier for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to buy and deploy collaboration software with integrated Internet access capabilities.
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breastle: Intel Unveils Developer Kits, Labs Program to Accelerate Future Memory, Other Key Technologies Author: Tommy
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel has introduced a product development kit (PDK) to accelerate the adoption of a new computer memory technology, called Fully-Buffered Dual In-Line Memory Module (FB-DIMM), and other emerging technologies for Intel's first multi-core server platform, codenamed "Bensley." Intel also unveiled a labs testing program aimed at providing a centralized resource for hardware vendors developing enterprise products based new technologies, including this memory standard and Intel's (star)T silicon technologies.
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breastle: First China Open Source Software Week Held in China to Boost Linux Industry Author: Tommy
BEIJING - Sun Wah Linux Limited announces that the China Open Source Software (OSS) Week 2005, the first such event of the Asian Open Source organization, began here in Beijing on February 28 and will last through March 4, to tap the vast potentials of OSS development in China.
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breastle: ITTIA Announces Support for db.* on the Linux-ARM Platform Author: Anonymous
Bellevue, WA - Almost all devices made these days have a microprocessor, and microprocessors will become ubiquitous as time pbuttes. Many devices are based on ARM processors. ARM is a leader in producing cost-effective and power-efficient processors for mobile devices and ITTIA is proud to announce that it has confirmed db.* support for Linux on the ARM processor. This announcement opens up thousands of new development possibilities.
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.spil wrote on 11 Jul 2005 09:01:52 -0700 One of the more interesting issues...
breastle: Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released Author: Tommy
Ok, there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds).
So it's now officially all bug-free.
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breastle: What Could a Psychologist Do For My Engineering Team? Author: Anonymous
If your work includes speech technology, you know that speech user interfaces and human factors professionals seem to get a lot of attention. But how do they work together, and just as importantly, why?
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