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February 26, 2008
Microsoft, IBM Team Up on Embedded for POS
Microsoft and IBM are teaming up in the point-of-sale arena with Microsoft’s Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) operating system pre-loaded on IBM point-of-sale, self-checkout and self-service kiosks. Windows Embedded for Point of Service is a point-of-service operating system platform based on Windows but optimized for the retail industry.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 09:07 AM Permalink
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February 05, 2008
European Real-Time Java Initiative Launched
The Open Group has partnered with a consortium of European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers, and research organizations to develop a new framework for Java-based real-time applications on parallel processor systems. Supported by the European Commission, the Java Environment for Parallel Real-time Development (JEOPARD) project is investing over $4.9 million (euro 3.3 million) in an advanced framework for real-time Java running on multicore and parallel systems. This platform-independent framework will maintain reliability for safety and mission-critical applications, while using the additional processing power available from the latest parallel platforms.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 03:03 PM Permalink
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October 15, 2007
Eclipse-based, Mixed-Language IDE Released
DDC-I has announced OpenArbor, a tool that the company claims is the first Eclipse-based mixed-language development and run-time environment to integrate C, Embedded C++, Ada, and real-time Java. Moreover, Open Arbor claimes to make it possible to develop hard real-time applications that combine Java, C, EC++, and Ada.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 01:45 PM Permalink
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October 11, 2007
Linux in the Embedded World: How's It Doing?
So how is Linux doing in the embedded systems arena? According to a report from market research firm Venture Development Corporation, it's doing pretty darn well.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:33 AM Permalink
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October 04, 2007
Trolltech Releases Technology Preview of Qt for Windows CE
Trolltech has released an initial technology preview of Qt for Windows CE (Qt/WinCE) to its commercial customers and the open source community for testing and feedback. Qt/WinCE is a port of the Qt API and developer tools to the Windows CE.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 05:47 PM Permalink
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October 01, 2007
GPS: You've Come A Long Way
Back when GPS was still a twinkle in some entrepreneur's eye, my buddy Bill Cramer went to work for an outfit that was developing GPS-based vehicle tracking systems. Alas, the company had trouble getting established in the U.S. because fleet truck drivers didn't like to be tracked, and the antennas mysteriously tended to be broken off a few blocks after leaving the yard. Luckily, the company Bill worked for got a contract in Saudi Arabia where things like breaking your employer's antenna were taken a bit more seriously, if you know what I mean. Needless to say, the tests went well in that country.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 12:02 PM Permalink
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September 28, 2007
More Home Robots from iRobot
Possibly figuring that the house is clean enough, iRobot has unveiled two new home robots that aren't robotic vacuum cleaners -- a gutter cleaning robot and, what seems to me, a mobile webcam robot.
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Posted by John Dorsey at 04:25 PM Permalink
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Who Says 2+2=4?
What do Microsoft's Excel 2007 and I have in common? We're both math challenged, or so it seems.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 02:00 PM Permalink
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February 06, 2007
McObject Releases eXtremeDB Fusion, Hybrid Embedded Database
McObject today released the latest edition of its eXtremeDB embedded database family. Dubbed eXtremeDB Fusion, the product is a hybrid embedded database -- meaning that it purports to combine the strengths of on-disk and all-in-memory data management in one application.
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Posted by John Jainschigg at 02:24 PM Permalink
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January 09, 2007
Apple's Swivelin' iPhone
By now (and I mean "by now, four hours after Steve Jobs' speech at CES"), the world knows all about Apple's new iPhone -- a smart phone with an iTunes-compatible media player inside. The first iteration of iPhone will be a global quadband device for GSM-EDGE (3G will follow), with built-in WiFi. There's only one controller on the device: most interaction will be via a 160-pixel-per-inch widescreen touch-sensitive display. Cingular will be the nationwide carrier, to start.
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Posted by John Jainschigg at 03:58 PM Permalink
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