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Windows Server Evaluation Editions Free Downloads Bonanza

Microsoft is offering a veritable bonanza of Windows Server evaluation editions free downloads. Packaged under the label Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation Software, a number of no less than ten products are offered at no charge for evaluation purposes only. Testers will have access to a variety of operating...

28 July 2008
10:15 GMT

Microsoft Got Windows on ASUS Eee PC, but not XP SP3 or Vista SP1

Microsoft managed to get the Windows operating system on the ASUS Eee PC, but neither Windows XP Service Pack 3 nor Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Instead, Parag Garg, Program Manager in the Embedded Windows team, experimented with Windows XP Embedded and the Eee PC. The Eee PC comes with a 900MHz Intel Celeron Proces...

7 April 2008
07:28 GMT

The VIA vmpc vm7700, Converting a Monitor Into a PC

VIA Technologies just announced the launch of a new and innovative way of turning a standard LCD computer monitor into a fully fledged desktop computing system that will be well suited for ''signage, kiosk and other intelligent display applications, providing a radically superior space management, cost effe...

8 October 2007
07:00 GMT

Axiomtek Intros Another Small Form Factor Mainboard

Axiomtek just announced the launch of a new EPIC form factor computer mainboard that is well suited for manufacturing computing systems that have to be small and operate with a light energy footprint. The single board computer, SBC for short, from Axiomtek is designed to be able to house mobile Intel central processi...

8 October 2007
02:56 GMT

Freescale ColdFire Processors Announced

Freescale Semiconductor just announced the official launch of a new generation of processing units that are now available under the commercial designation of MCF544x and they are aimed at providing users with a low power but high performance solution for building embedded systems that are running the Linux operating ...

1 October 2007
12:10 GMT

The Small Form Factor Makes Waves

It looks like computer systems packed away in a small form factor are increasingly popular these days as the technical advances allows them to deliver quite a computational punch even in their miniaturized state. Apart from their small size and equally small energy footprint, this new generation of computers is usual...

21 September 2007
09:12 GMT

Tiny Computers to Get a New Standard

Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p...

20 September 2007
06:25 GMT

AMD Extends Its Embedded Solutions Offering

Advanced Micro Devices announced the launch of three new low power AMD Athlon 64 processors which are designed to be used in embedded systems solutions. The launch was hosted by the Embedded Systems Conference and the three new additions to the AMD embedded product lineup give embedded systems manufacturers and desig...

19 September 2007
03:01 GMT

VIA Presents Its Embedded Solutions

VIA Technologies announced that it will actively participate in the Embedded Systems Conference that takes place in Boston where the company plans to showcase it latest innovations like very low power consuming x86 compatible chips and mainboards which are especially designed and manufactured for use in various embed...

18 September 2007
10:06 GMT

Intel Wants The Embedded Systems Market Too

The system on a chip, SoC for short, design is nothing as it has been used for several years now in embedded systems but now Intel sees a great potential in this market so it prepares to launch its very own embedded processor named Tolapai. A previous attempt at the embedded systems' market ended badly for Intel...

30 August 2007
09:18 GMT

McAfee Goes into Every Kiosk for XP Embedded - Vista Ignored

Windows security does not stop at the client or the server side. In fact, Windows security also extends to embedded systems. In this context, Microsoft welcomed McAfee to the world of embedded Windows as the Santa Clara security company introduced in mid August support for Windows XP embedded. The McAfee VirusScan En...

28 August 2007
05:20 GMT

IBM Looks Towards Embedded Systems

Embedded systems are now a force on the computer market as they are expanding from simple circuits to more and more complex forms. At the same time, the operating systems designed for them are getting more complex too. One company that develops operating systems aimed at embedded hardware components is the 1300 perso...

20 August 2007
10:43 GMT

VIA Announces The 1W CPU

VIA Technologies announced that it will soon introduce a new processor to its line of ultra low voltage, ULV for short, line of products designed for use in embedded systems and other applications where low costs and extended battery life as a result of low power consumption are critical.At a press conference, the co...

18 August 2007
05:21 GMT

VIA EPIA NR Nano-ITX Mainboard - As Small As They Get

The Taiwanese chipset and motherboard producer and vendor VIA Technologies announced today the release of its latest Nano ITX form factor mainboard aimed at healthcare, retail and industry applications. This motherboard is specifically designed for embedded systems and solutions where low power consumption and a smal...

24 July 2007
08:30 GMT

Introducing... Windows Vista Embedded

Windows XP Embedded has recently got a series of Windows Vista features with Rollup 1.0 for Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007. The upgrade has in fact taken Windows XP Embedded SP2 to the Feature Pack 2008 milestone and users of the operating system on embedded devices will be able to benefit from Internet Explorer 7,...

7 June 2007
10:54 GMT

Ubuntu Announced the Mobile and Embedded Edition

A while ago, Intel announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing that they are working on the development of a new type of ultra mobile device that should come as a better alternative to the older and not so successful UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC ). The new mobile Internet devices (MID) proposed by Intel will have a l...

7 May 2007
04:21 GMT

Multi core for Embedded Applications

Seeing how the future is represented by multiple CPU cores, linked together in various ways to give out anything from a simple dual-core offering, to a network array of cores. Whether they are necessary or not, or if the people are going to use such technologies, isn't a matter of discussion, the future has alre...

23 April 2007
07:58 GMT

GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative Announced

Jeff Waugh, of the GNOME Foundation made an announcement at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara. Calif. CELF's Embedded Linux Conference is the first forum for embedded Linux developers and associated software from around the world where they can get together in technical discussions regarding all kind...

20 April 2007
07:28 GMT




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