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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:43 PM

WEPOS Keynote Demos - Buying "Stuff" around the world.

I'm giving keynote demos at many of the MEDC world-wide events, this means that I'm building a Point of Sale terminal from the ground up in about 5 minutes - it's a super cool demo! In order to show the demo working I of course need some items to purchase
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Monday, May 29, 2006 12:47 AM

MEDC 2006 Japan - May 31st

Next stop on the MEDC World Tour is Tokyo - this is going to be a one day event keynoted by Michelle Freed (GM, Mobile Information Worker, Mobile and Embedded Devices group). Loke and I are delivering keynote demos and I'm also delivering a session
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Monday, May 29, 2006 12:38 AM

MEDC Oz

MEDC Australia has been and gone, there were two tracks each covering four sessions - on the "Embedded" side of the house we had Windows CE 6 Kernel, Windows CE 6 tools, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS).
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:12 PM

Wednesday 24th May - MEDC 2006 Australia Keynote Rehearsal

It's 2:15pm, Wednesday 24th May, the day before the MEDC Australia event - We're in the Microsoft Melbourne office doing keynote rehearsals. Check out the amount of gear that I needed to bring with me from Seattle for the keynote! (bottom right
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:25 PM

MEDC Oz - May 25th, Melbourne - Embedded Content.

The MEDC international tour gets started this weekend with Loke Uei (Content owner for MEDC Las Vegas, and Windows Mobile developer type), Andreas Penna (Windows Embedded Compete) Doug Boling (Windows CE, great speaker, book author), Sean Liming (Windows
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:45 PM

MEDC Down Under - Who's Presenting/What's the content ?

The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC) is coming to Australia on May 25th - here's the Event Web Site. I'm going to be covering the new Windows CE 6 tools, giving a walkthrough of the new developer experience, showing how
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Monday, May 01, 2006 9:22 PM

T-1 Week - A look ahead to MEDC 2006

With just one week to go before the start of MEDC 2006 there's plenty to look forward to - here's some thoughts (in no particular order). A look at the next release of Windows CE - plenty of sessions and labs! Keynote demos! Plenty
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:59 PM

MEDC Keynote Cart.

It's Tuesday 25th April - MEDC is a couple of weeks away, we have two keynote rehearsals a week at this point - next week we have a rehearsal each day of the week. I have so much gear for the keynote (three demos, one on Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded,
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:41 PM

MEDC 2006: Podcast - Lab setup at TSG.

If you've attended a Microsoft event that has a registration area, hands on labs, communications network such as MEDC, Tech*Ed, PDC and others then you have probably seen some of the Microsoft TSG (Technical Support Group) lurking around the place - these
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Friday, April 21, 2006 3:47 PM

MEDC 2006 Las Vegas - Blog Discount

Hey, if you are a reader of this blog you can now get a discount on the price for MEDC 2006 - Usual price $1195, blog discount price $895. Here's how you can take advantage of this offer... Use the MEDC 2006 registration link and use the Passcode:
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Friday, April 21, 2006 10:12 AM

Why should you care about Internationalization ?

I've just been reviewing the MEDC internationalization session (covers Windows CE and Windows Mobile) - there are some interesting facts, did you know that only 8% of the world population speak English ? (5% native, 3% as a second language) - I'm surprised
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:48 AM

MEDC 2006 Podcast Live

ok, so I'm riding on the back of other Microsoft Live products here - the MEDC 2006 Podcast Feed is now live, first video is up - here's a link to the RSS feed In the first video we get to meet some of the content owners for MEDC and get to hear about
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Friday, April 14, 2006 4:46 PM

MEDC 2006 Podcast - Interview with Content Owners.

The first MEDC 2006 Podcast video was recorded today - this should be edited over the weekend and posted live early next week, so I will be able to give you the URL for the RSS feed, I will of course also expose the content through a FeedBurner page.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:01 AM

Burnt Bean Brew, MEDC content reviews and the MEDC 2006 Video Podcast Feed.

The increase in coffee (burnt bean brew) intake seems to somehow be directly related to the amount of work I have to do on MEDC - this week we have the kickoff of the content reviews (speakers running their content and demos), we also have the first of
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:58 PM

ESC West: EE-Times Survey shows interest in Embedded Linux remains low.

Check out this Survey published today at ESC West. The survey was published by Dylan McGrath from EE Times SAN FRANCISCO— Only 17 percent of embedded systems designers are currently using embedded Linux, and 66 percent say they are either not
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