Ouest Ventures, the highly respected venture capital company based in Rennes (France), makes a significant investment in Geensoft.

American Industrial Systems Inc. (AIS), has unveiled a new line of Industrial Automation Panel PC’s featuring the fanless Intel(r) Atom Z series processors and LED backlit displays for ultra-low power consumption operation.

Advantech introduced today its first OEM-Ready Network Application Platform based on the latest Intel(r) Xeon(r) 3400 series Quad Core processor and Intel(r) 3420 PCH chipset. The 1U rackmount FWA-4208 targets Network Security OEM’s seeking to improve the entry-level cost point of high-performance systems for small-to-medium businesses (SMB’s). The FWA-4208 provides the hardware platform for multi-gigabit filtering and intrusion prevention performance across nine GbE ports. The system scales to meet additional port expansion requirements or add-on hardware acceleration needs.

Kepware Technologies has released version 5.1 of its award winning KEPServerEX OPC Server. This OPC Server solution for automation delivers significant new functionality and a variety of enhancements to the OPC-A&E Interface, Drivers, as well as the Custom Interface Driver (CID).

Diamond Systems Corp. today launched a series of Linux Software Development Kits (SDKs). Each SDK includes a tiny solid-state IDE "flashdisk" module – preloaded with a Linux OS – that plugs directly into one of Diamond’s SBC or ERS products, ready to boot and run immediately. With all required drivers pre-configured and ready to use, these Linux-bootable flashdisks complement Diamond’s reliable processor modules to create solid-state Linux-based embedded computers.