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My new Fujitsu U810

[warning: this post does not feature any identity related content, and it's probably useless] I feel for the UMPCs an unhealthy (walletwise) attraction, since the very moment they came out. In fact, if you dig in the early years of this blog you'll see
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A (fiscal) year in review

It's that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it's time to reflect on what we've done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I've done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can't

Securing a Sidebar Gadget with Windows CardSpace and WCF

In short: I discuss Sidebar Gadgets, and I show you how to invoke a CardSpace-protected WCF service from a simple Gadget. Full source code is provided, along with detailed commentary on the road I've followed for getting there. Added bonus: the code shows

WCF on Windows Mobile

Well, I guess a lot of people waited for this . Being able to write WS-* apps on phone? THIS IS GREAT!!!!

Consumer side RFID killer app!

OK, we've all read for the last x years about how RFID is going to be a breakthrough technology for the supply chain. But what about more immediate consequences on the daily life of everybody? I've found the reason for which IMHO it's worth waiting for
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Making sense of the TabletPC Accelerometer, round II

Ahh. The Sunday's post about the little toy for playing with the accelerometer of certain tablet pcs had a notable success. Evviva! :-) Few answers to common questions: I DON'T use any Accelerometer API. I'm not aware of any public ones, and that's the
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Making sense of the Tablet PC Accelerometer: WinGimcana

Hi everybody! At the address http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/wingimcana you can find a small toy I wrote in order to play with one of the coolest but least mentioned M200 features, the Accelerometer. Winform is pretty far from my daily bread (web services),
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Power without cables

http://splashpower.com/ I'd say that if it works they have a bright future. Considering than now I have a different adapter for each of the following (not everything is mine, but all of them are around): phone(s) bluetooth headset bluetooth GPS antenna
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Spoiled by .NET, connectivity, etc

It's too easy to get spoiled by .NET and by all the related initiatives. I have the SP3 just from Christmas, and I'm already completely addicted to the idea of being able to write my own little apps with the Compact Framework (earlier I had the MPx200),
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