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As part of an ongoing effort on the Windows Embedded team, our management encourages us to seek out new relevant devices to our industry to get a chance to understand these new devices and see how our products may apply. One of these new gadgets that
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Proving that snail mail is still good for some things, I found an excellent article in the March, 2008 issue of IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer I just pulled out of my mail box. In the article Help wanted: Embedded Engineers , Mark Anderson describes embedded
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I found this arcade game, the world's largest , at scifi.com this morning. You need to climb up on stepladders for crying out loud! Anyway, it got me thinking a little about gaming machines in general as an embedded device and pondering again "what does
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I stumbled on this short post to an mp3car.com forum (see my previous article about these hobbyists). In this new post, user joepetz shows off a YouTube video of his XPe image booting via HORM on his 'Carputer'. He also demos some of the StreetDeck software
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While talking to one of our Marketing Managers who just joined the Windows Embedded team, the question on what cool devices are made by Windows XP Embedded came up. “Martini Mixer!” I said. “That’s cool.” he said. “But I don’t know who’s the maker or
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On a lark [1] , I entered “industrial automation” in Wikipedia and founds some interesting links at the bottom of the page. Apparently, a few years ago, the IEEE [ 2] split their Transactions on Robotics and Automation into two publications in order to
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ATLabs has shipped what they're claiming is to be the world's first thin client notebook, the NB-6500 and it's running XPe. The markets they're targeting are Education, Libraries, Healthcare, Hospitality, Quality Control, Mobile Enterprise. The brochure
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A recent post in the XP Embedded forum highlighted an issue related to running vb scripts on Embedded runtimes that I meant to blog about... so here it is! It seems a bug fix that was incorporated into SP2 was only a partial fix (for whatever reason).
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Probably the second most common question I get from people starting to use XP Embedded is "Why can't I update my Embedded runtime directly from the Windows Update web site?" (the first question I get is "Are you Windows CE?" <grin>). Here are some
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I found a pretty good article on Federal Computer Week by Wayne Rash called " Can you be too thin? ". No, it's not about maintaining my girlish figure, it's an excellent primer into the pros/cons of migrating from PCs to Thin Clients. It covers these
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The Optimus mini 3-key auxiliary keyboard has to be the ultimate user input device . Well, maybe “ultimate” is a bit of a stretch, but its close <grin>. (click thumbnail) This keyboard is likely to be handy in applications where a standard input
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I found this M-Systems press release via ecnAsiaMag.com today. M-Systems has expanded its support of the uDOC, for boot and storage solutions, beyond just XPe to now include WinCE, WEPOS and XP Pro environments. - Andy
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3VR is a company that delivers XPe based devices to resolve a huge problem for the security industry. The problem they're taking on is how to deal with information overload. Here's a good whitepaper (pdf format) from 3VR with basic theory of operation
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While checking my feeds from Embedded.com this evening i ran across an announcement from AMD regarding the latest edition in the low power proc family - the AMD Geode LX 800 . Its power consumption runs at 0.9W (~ 500MHz though). Here are the benchmarks
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Based on a thread in the WFD forums, Sean Liming started keeping track of CF devices "that just work" for XPe. This question comes up all the time, wrt which CF's have had performance issues, burnout too soon, won't boot, etc...The problem here though
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