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Byline: Dominic Perry âHelicopter manufacturers must develop and introduce real-time in-flight data monitoring systems on their aircraft if the industry is to make sustained improvements in safety. Helicopter manufacturers must [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-Fidelity National Information Systems introduced its own global real-time payments network for domestic and international money movement for both retail and commercial trade. The company's PayNet [...]

Real-time OS makers seek breadth of skills It used to be that design engineers needed only to know assembly language to develop real-time operating systems. Now, with more complex computers [...]

Banks are re-using technology to help them take advantage of a joint Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and banking industry initiative to reduce payment processing times to one day. The […]

Fractal research: Payoff at last Dr Michael Barnsley uncorked a bottle of champagne and politely asked to reschedule our interview. He had just received $12 million in financing to start [...]

Gaming terminals operator Inspired Broadcast Networks is investing in IBM WebSphere middleware to create a real-time monitoring, access and management system for 15,000 broadband network-enabled games machines in pubs, betting […]

While Microsoft's real-time communications server, code-named Greenwich, will follow by several months Microsoft's delivery of its base Windows .Net Server 2003 platform, the software giant's ultimate goal is to make […]

OEMs considering a real-time operating system for a mass-market product will find that the royalty-free commercial RTOS route is the best way to go. The convergence of wireless communications and […]

Chris Martin peers at the planet through web cams, the Internet's spy-holes A coffee pot was the subject of the very first web cam I came across. The pot resided [...]

ROCKY ROAD FOR REAL-TIME UNIX For a long time, real-time UNIX was a contradiction in terms. Not one source UNIX--System V, Berkeley, XENIX--contained any real-time functionality. They still don't. However, […]

Microware Systems Corp. is the first company to develop a real-time multimedia operating system to be used in set-top boxes for interactive TV applications. 'By being first, we are getting [...]

Neurosurgeons at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but like Superman with his X-ray vision, they are able to […]

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. is looking for a few good ideas about how operating systems for real-time telecommunications applications should work. NTT is also intent on getting input from […]

Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass., which neglected its position in the realtime software market in the mid-1980s to concentrate on penetrating commercial MIS accounts with VAX/VMS-based systems, appears to be […]

A safer and technically superior solution for monitoring the analysis of highly toxic dioxins translated into higher sales for Yamato Scientific, a Tokyo based manufacturer of laboratory and testing facilities. […]

The notion of 'real-time,' or determinism, can apply to sensing, logic, actuation, and communications that connect the three. In sensing, it means measuring and acquiring data about a process quickly [...]

Tasking, the embedded software development arm of the Altium group is developing an RTOS in-house to expand its product portfolio. The company has traditionally supplied an RTOS from third parties […]

A SYSTEM WHERE THE LANGUAGE COMES FIRST AMHERST, N.H. Can Dick Morley do it again? Morley practically made modern automated manufacturing possible when he thought up the programmable logic controller […]

RISC BOARD SET BRINGS 20 MIPS PER SLOT TO VMEBUS The system engineering community is jumping on the RISC bandwagon because it represents a quantum leap in processing power. In […]

Redmond, Wash. Microsoft is readying real-time computing features for its tiny Windows CE operating system that could result in the software being used in devices ranging from milk testers to […]

System packages allow for 'deterministic response' Chicago--Embedded systems company engineering departments face great technical challenges in getting electronic systems to communicate with one another via the Internet, although software for […]

Displaying digital video that's compatible with the MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) video-compression specification in real-time is the goal of many systems designers. But to do it in real time […]

OCEANPORT, N.J.--Concurrent Computer is looking at potential alternatives to the MIPS RISC architecture for the next generation of its Unix real-time systems line beyond an R4000-based multiprocessor now under development. […]

CAMBRIDGE England -- Olivetti Research Labs (ORL), an organization partly funded by DEC, is experimenting with a pair of projects, called 'Active Badges' and 'Pandora's Box,' that are designed to […]

Digital Equipment Corp. has signed an agreement to jointly develop and resell a Posix-compliant version of the VxWorks realtime operating system of Wind River Systems, Inc., Alameda, Calif. The goal […]

HP selected Wind River Systems Inc. to provide real-time performance to the new RISC-based X Stations. The HP 700/RS will run VsWorks on the Intel 1960 microprocessor. Set up in […]