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Linux SDK straddles DIY, commercial approaches (Linux Devices)
— Dec. 16, 2008 — Linux professional services and consulting firm Embedded Alley (EA) is edging into the embedded Linux tools business with its own software development kit (SDK). EA's "Embedded Alley Development System for Linux-based Devices" combines open-source software and services, and "facilitates build and integration of in-house and third-party commercial software," says EA. ...

05-01-2009: Whether green or blue, the stakes are high (The Edge Daily)
PAS' gambit in the upcoming Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election was certainly unexpected. Its choice of Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut as candidate for P036 is clever, and could prove a winning stratagem.

Youngstown board deals with V&M issue (Tribune Chronicle)
YOUNGSTOWN - The Board of Control has agreed to order a study of a piece of property V&M Star Steel needs for a possible expansion.

Staples marking first Christmas as a city (Seguin Gazette-Enterprise)
STAPLES — Residents of the county's newest municipality marked their first Christmas as a city by taking on some of the "housekeeping" issues any new community deals with.

Farm family signs over 440 acres for protection (Concord Monitor)
The land in the Schoodac Brook watershed in Warner and Webster is iconic New Hampshire. There are red maple floodplain forests, the pumpkin patches and hay fields of a farm that has been in the same family for generations, and active timber harvests. There are meadows of wildflowers and vernal pools critical to salamander and turtle species.

Rehabilitation of Rockford Public Safety Building deemed too expensive (Rockford Register Star)
Long before the term "geographic policing" entered the local lexicon, there was a plan created for a more than $33 million modernization of the Public Safety Building.

Jail intake center costs a mystery (Knoxville News Sentinel)
It's no secret that Knox County commissioners are considering a $12 million to $15 million intake center to be built next to the City County Building. The mystery is how officials came up with the estimate.

Reunited Ore. tribes can buy back their land (Arizona Daily Star)
CHILOQUIN, Ore. — Standing in the shadows of a dilapidated lumber mill, Jeff Mitchell picked up a piece of firewood from the pile on the cold concrete floor and held it in the sunlight.

Sprint modem straddles 3G, WiMAX (The Register)
The slow and the Clear Sprint has unveiled a wireless modem capable of jumping between its old-school CDMA cell network and the fledgling 4G WiMAX network it recently launched in Baltimore, Maryland.…

WA News (The West Australian)
Swan Valley grape growers are furious at plans to extend the Dampier-to-Bunbury gas pipeline through their properties, saying it will destroy vines and infrastructure valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.