September 2008 - Posts
ESC Boston is running October 26-30 , the Windows Embedded team is running a series of sessions (and labs) covering Windows Embedded CE 6.0, and Windows Embedded Standard (Windows XP Embedded) – here’s the list of sessions that will be presented. First
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The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its Millennium Goals. This year the Imagine Cup uses these ambitious challenges as a guiding light to inspire change all over the world. Learn more about the eight
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Direct Insight are running hands on technical sessions at this years Embedded Systems Show (October 1-2, NEC, Birmingham, UK) – Here’s your chance to get hands on experience with building operating systems and writing applications, plus the opportunity
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Yesterday I posted “ I am a Device ” to the blog, and got a comment back that “we are what we eat”, so we could be a cheeseburger, or a slice of lemon loaf, but we cannot be a “PC” – but there are a number of similarities between a PC and a person, some
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You’ve probably seen the new “I’m a PC” adverts, either on TV or the internets (what do you think of the adverts?), there’s also downloadable Life without walls (wallpapers) available from the Windows Vista Team Blog – the tagline for the wallpapers is
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I saw a posting to “/.” last week that talked about a mobile internet device shell (MID) for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 – here’s the post . The shell is developed by Quarta Mobile, and will be made available as “open source” – here’s a link to the Quarta
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Check out this low cost .NET Micro Framework board from GHI Electronics - The GHI web site also contains a video of the board being used to play a .MP3 file from a USB stick - pretty cool! The board is listed at $99, and has the following hardware and
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Zune 3.0 software is available for download today . What's new? - check out the new features list here . There are new device features, Software Features, and Social Features. Here's some of the device features: New device hardware (16GB, 120GB) Buy from
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Graças ao Windows Live tradução (Equipe de tradução de automática do Microsoft Research), a documentação de CE 6.0 agora está disponível em português! - Eis um link para o material traduzido . Thanks to Windows Live Translation (Microsoft Research Machine
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Travis Hobrla has posted a new video to MSDN Channel 9 titled " Porting Drivers to CE 6.0 " - this session has been presented at MEDC a couple of times (and I think was also presented at ESC West and TechEd this year) - This presentation covers everything
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If you are working on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 projects, or are planning on working on CE 6.0 projects then you probably want to get MCTS certified (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist), here's two ways to get started. Now you can prepare for the
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The Windows Embedded keynote at Canalys (GPS Navigation Forum event, in Budapest, Europe) was yesterday, Ilya Bukshteyn (Senior Director, Marketing) presented the keynote, with Olivier Bloch presenting the demos - Olivier demonstrated the developer experience
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Here’s an easy way to influence the new Microsoft Certification exam for Windows Embedded Standard developers (Windows Embedded Standard is the new name for Windows XP Embedded) – it just takes an hour, via email. No travel required. We’re looking for
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) In this webcast series, you learn how to develop applications for Windows Mobile Devices. Attend this webcast and discover how to get the most out of Device Emulator to help test and
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Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is being demonstrated at the Canalys Navigation Forum event in Budapest this week (8-10 September) - But what exactly is Windows Embedded NavReady 2009? In a C|NET article published today its described as "a Windows-based
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Another CE6 book is getting ready to be released - the book is called Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 (ISBN: 978-0-470-37733-8) and is written by Samuel Phung who works at ICOP who are also part of the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 SPARK program
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Last night (or two days ago if you are reading this on Friday) the WE-DIG meeting topic was power management on mobile devices, not looking at operating system architecture, or driver development, but taking a slightly different approach, using operating
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Several months back we talked about the new SPARK program , which provides low cost embedded hardware with a full copy of Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 for hobbyist developers. If you were to be given a free reference board and had some
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Today, Monday September 1st is Embedded day at TechEd Australia - a couple of months ago, Don Kerr, the Embedded guy in Sydney asked me to present the opening session at the Embedded day - The session is 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. It doesn't seem
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