Today Telematics Update announced the thirty finalists for the Telematics Awards 2004 to be held during the Telematics Detroit Conference and Exhibition on May 25-26. QNX is nominated in the Best Technology category. After an overwhelming response in nominations for the second international Telematics Awards, the independent panel of judges had the difficult task of narrowing down each category to five finalists.

Version 0.2 of the Sidplay2-Decoder for QNX6 has been released by phearbear. The decorder is a plugin for the MultiMedia Framework on QNX 6.2.1+, decoding the PSID format (SID, music from Commandore 64). Access this new beta on the Sidplay2-decoder homepage.

phearbear recently ported RadeonTools to QNX6. RadeonTools is a hack which allows you to disable the screen/vga output of your laptop (assuming you have a Radeon Mobility chip, of course). This port is very handy for those with this chip as QNX does not support it with its' native Radeon driver.

The QNX release can be found via this link.

By Samuel Sidler , inspired by this forum post., with permission from Linas

Long ago, before QNX6 was the "thing" and the non-commercial version of QNX had yet to exist, there was a floppy. Not just any floppy though. The renouned QNX4 Demo Disk, running QNX 4.25, is considered the most functional one-floppy OS ever released. Two versions were created, a network and a modem version, both allowing the user to access the Internet while running the floppy.

Next week's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) at San Francisco's Moscone Center will feature over 400 embedded technology exhibits, including 14 chosen as finalists for the Best of Show award by sponsor CMP Media. QNX Software Systems, one of 14, will exhibit InFocus's LiteShow, a "connect and project," zero-configuration wireless projection system. Booth 2542. The finalists were chosen from among 34 entries for their embodiment of innovative technology in end-user applications. Category winners and overall Best of Show will be announced at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30 on the exhibit floor.

The QNX binary for the latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.3.1 just showed up at the openqnx project site. As compared to the version 1.2.x, support has been added in 1.3 branch for:
* RDP5
* 15, 16 and 24 bit color depths
* Basic clipboard redirection
* Sound
* IPv6
* Attaching to console on Windows 2003

Release 1.2 of the Broadcom 440X network driver for QNX is released, It's mostly a bugfix release, however it includes new features such as Powermanagement Support. Download this release the BCM440X for QNX homepage.

OTTAWA, Canada, March 16, 2004 - QNX Software Systems today unveiled its next-generation system builder, a powerful tool that lets embedded developers bring up and customize their target systems with point-and-click simplicity.An integral part of the QNX® Momentics® development suite Professional Edition v6.3, the system builder introduces a number of time-saving features, including a Board Support Package (BSP) import wizard, a binary inspector, a more powerful serial console, and intelligent rebuilds.

OTTAWA, March 16, 2004 - QNX Software Systems today announced that the QNX Momentics development suite Professional edition v6.3 will include a new, fully integrated code coverage tool. The new addition rounds out a robust suite of analysis and optimization tools already provided by QNX Momentics - including an application profiler, system profiler, and memory analysis tool - and confirms QNX's long-standing commitment to promoting code quality and reliability in embedded systems.

Alexander Domo has released a new version of his ntfs driver. With this driver you are able to read your data from windows partitions, which are using the nt filesystem.
The new version now runs as a daemon, so you don't need to specify the "&" at startup. He has also fixed some bugs and added some features, but the write support is still very limited.
You can download the QNX binary package or the source code.
To get more information about fs-nt visit Alexander Domo's website.