Had to chuckle at this one, a high-tech amplifier for iPod... Check out the article - Mike

I'm presenting at the Microsoft Academic Faculty Summit 2004 on Monday, so what's the worst possible thing that could happen late Friday afternoon ? - yep, you guessed it, a total machine meltdown, I have no clue what happened, I was uninstalling ActiveSync...

I've just written some code to create image thumbnails and the HTML needed to support the image and thumb... So here's a test of the HTML generated by the application... - Mike

I've just received a "News Flash" on my SPOT watch, opened it up, and.... Pretty informative, eh? - Mike

If you think SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technologies) are only running in a watch then think again! - take a look at this video on MSDN Channel 9 where Rich Davies takes us through SPOT Watches, MSN Direct, and "other devices" running on SPOT technologies...

Chris Gray, a Software Development Engineer in the Windows CE networking team now has a Blog up and running - check it out here Chris is the guy in the Windows CE "Build a NAS" video on MSDN Channel9 - he's got a brain the size of a planet, and the most...

I have some questions for you.. 1. Check out the posting on Scoble's blog "A tale of two videos" - which would you rather watch, the professional video or the MSDN Channel 9 video... 2. A similar question, based on feedback from some customers attending...

We have a Windows CE 5.0 Beta teach running this week, tonight attendees are going out to get Thai food in Redmond (Typhoon) and then a bunch of us are going to crash the Greek Geek dinner down in Bellevue being hosted by the Scoble - hopefully see you...

Part II of the Windows Automotive video for MSDN Channel9 is now live - here's the link In this video Peter Wengert from the Windows Automotive team is driving me back to building 119 and shows off some of the features of Windows Automotive technology...

I spent some time recently with Chris Gray, a Windows CE Networking Software Development Engineer - Chris walked through the steps of building a Windows CE 5.0 Network Attached Storage (NAS) device in 20 minutes. Count the number of lines of code Chris...

Found this on Scobles blog - an intern at Microsoft describes having dinner at Bill Gates house, makes for an interesting read. - Mike

PDAGold has posted an article that describes the advantages and disadvantages of Windows Mobile 2nd Edition VGA support. <rant> The one thing that bugs me about some of these articles is how the authors describe Pocket PC and Smartphone as an O...

WindowsForDevices are running an article comparing Windows Embedded devices to Linux devices - here's an extract from the page. Impassioned battles between Linux and Windows partisans are no longer confined to the desktop and server arenas. With the growing...

The first of many Channel 9 videos I recently recorded is now available on MSDN Channel9 - The first is a chat with Peter Wengert, Group Marketing Manager in the Windows Automotive Group. Here's the link to the Channel9 page - Mike

Chris Tacke and Daron Underwood (from Venturcom) "Team VBA" spent a ton of time working on their Sumobot code at the Windows Embedded Devcon. I heard that they spent about 4 hours just working on their "victory dance" code - if the sumobot has 'found...

A picture is worth a thousand words... nuff said... (click the picture to get the link to the article on Engadget). - Mike

Found this on engadget - this is the Tissot SPOT watch I was trying to find earlier. The Tissot High T Touch Screen watch is likely the most advanced watch you can get, not only does it have a touch screen— but like all SPOT watches, it receives personalized...

Article from jkOnTheRun Japan has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile devices, especially computers. Importers such as Dynamism, Kurns & Patrick, iCube, and Kemplar have stepped into the void for these innovative devices that US...

Carnegie Mellon University robotics researchers, in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps’ Warfighting Laboratory, have developed a small, throwable, remote-controlled prototype robot designed for surveillance in urban settings, several of which are...

Think I Reboot Robot is just fiction ? - think again, robotic vaccum cleaners, robotic lawn mowers, robotic surgery and vehicle manufacture, all this is here now - the future will just see more robots - they will soon be as common as the iPod Portable...

HP has unveilled a new set of PDA's - H-P's new top-of-the-line iPAQ, the h6315, has a built-in cellular phone. It's the first handheld to offer three-way integrated wireless voice and data capabilities over GSM/GPRS, WiFi and Bluetooth. I’ve been playing...

Swiss watch maker Tissot offers "luxury" SPOT Watch - I couldn't find an image to post of the new watch, but will when I find one. There's probably going to be news of this on the SPOT community site - Mike

This question has come up a number of times recently - You've built your Windows CE 5.0 operating system, you've written the worlds coolest Windows CE application in eMbedded Visual C++ or Visual Studio .NET 2003 and now want to include the applicaiton...

One of the Windows CE Program Managers captured some photo's at the Windows CE 5.0 RTM party - the party was held on the sports fields on Redmond campus, there was plenty of food, drinks, volleyball, and other games to keep people happy during the afternoon...

Just found this article on eWeek , looks like Microsoft is gearing up to release more code to the open source community. Check out this Microsoft Blog that discusses why we're releasing code to the open source community. - Mike