Rick “Mad-eye Murdoch” Anderson and I, “Colonel Hannibal” from the Aussie “Mobile Smackdown” crew, are about to become bald. We’re participating in the Leukaemia Foundation’s annual “Shave for a Cure” at 12pm today in the office. You can join the team and shave/colour any time this week-end, or sponsor...

I'll do a fuller wrap-up of the Smackdown *SMACK!* "HooHa!" later, but I just had to get the little video of the finale competition out. We wrapped up the biggest, and loudest Smackdown "HooHa!" ever held at a public TechEd with a wheel-barrow race, and then 3 finalists eating Apple...

This is a quick demo of a great little app to demonstrate the power of mobile blogging. R42

Joe, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Academic Evangelism was downunder this week to keynote our hugely successful Student Day. We also managed to keep him around for a couple of days to catch up with our Student Partners, Deans from local universities, and local government. Whilst he was here, of course...

There is another way to win at the Smackdown!! *SMACK!!* If you’re not one of the 100 lucky dogtag winners. We’re running another across the whole conference, where people can take a photo of their Windows Mobile experience at TechEd08 . Email the photos with your TechEd ID to smackdown08@live.com.au...

This year, TechEd is bigger, more energetic, and delivers more choice than ever before. The more I work with Business Groups across Microsoft, the more I hear about their plans to Connect with delegates. There seem to be a lot of competitive games being planned for the conference. Whilst it’s great to...

You've been there, or certainly heard all about it: The Mobility Smackdown ! The session where there are no limits, no noise control, and no PowerPoint! The session where a couple of passionate men (including myself) put a theme and fun into demonstrating their technology! The session where everyone...