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A (Microsoft) code name a day: Crossbow

A Microsoft code name a day: CrossbowWindows Mobile Crossbow and AvalonWith Windows Mobile Crossbow, developers can take advantage of Avalon and make custom user interfaces instead of the boring buttons like you see in standard Windows Mobile applications. For making custom graphical user interfaces, developers use XML-based "XAML" which stands...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Microsoft Corp., Crossbow, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

A (Microsoft) code name a day: Crossbow

Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....

Tags: Crossbow Best guess, codename, Microsoft Corp., Code names, Development tools, Vista, Housekeeping

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, November 22, 2006

I found the SWF2XAML converter by Mike Swanson yesterday via Karsten Januszewski. Mike also has an Illustrator converter which does the same thing. I think this is a good way for Flash people to jump into XAML and see what it is all about. The converter doesnt do everything,...

Tags: Crossbow, Google Inc., Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, Google, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

Blog posts 2006-11-22

Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, September 15, 2006

Most of the news yesterday was dominated by the Zune and Wii announcements both look really cool, but I do have a couple of items. Dan Farber here on ZDNet has a roundup of Michael Arrington's winners and losers for the web....

Tags: Crossbow, WPF, Flash

Blog posts 2006-09-15

Additional Resources

Energy Characterization of the Stargate Sensor Network Gateway

This paper presents a new energy estimation model for sensor network intermediate nodes (i.e. the Crossbow XScale Stargate). Such devices are battery powered and resource constrained and commonly employed as communication, processing, and gateway elements within sensor networks. Understanding and accurately characterizing the energy behavior of such devices is the...

Tags: Gateway Inc., Network, Battery, Sensor, University Of California, Engineering

White papers 2008-01-01

Full System Energy Estimation for Sensor Network Gateways

This paper presents a new energy estimation model for sensor network intermediate gateway nodes (i.e. Crossbow Stargates). Such devices are battery powered and resource constrained and commonly employed as communication, processing, and gateway elements within sensor networks. Understanding and accurately estimating the energy behavior of such devices is the key...

Tags: Network, Sensor, Performance Monitoring, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Nintendo Wii Zapper

If you grew up with a Nintendo Entertainment System in your house, then you no doubt remember the Zapper, the gray or bright orange light gun that let you shoot at ducks, bulls-eyes, and banditos. After almost 20 years, Nintendo has brought the Zapper, at least in name, to the...

Tags: Games, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Wii Zapper, Nintendo Wii, game

Product reviews 2007-11-29

Sun launches xVM virtualization platform

At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization--the Sun xVM platform. Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and supports Windows, Linux and Solaris guest operating systems, Green said. Sun's is bringing many of its assets...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Vista MMCSS gigabit throttling a victim of hard-coding, jumbo frames to the rescue!

Vista MMCSS gigabit throttling a victim of hard-coding, jumbo frames to the rescue!Your logic doesn't fly...You say: "Even most so-called gigabit NAS Network Attached Storage devices have a performance cap of around 120 mbps so very few people will even notice the MMCSS induced throttling in the first place."If true,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Dishonesty, Microsoft Corp., Vista MMCSS, Microsoft Windows Vista, gigabit

Discussion threads 2007-08-28

Is Lance right? Are palmtop PCs a bad idea?

Is Lance right? Are palmtop PCs a bad idea?It's all about the screen size you want to carryIf Lance believes he can experience the full internet in all it's glory on a 2.5" diagonal screen, knock yourself out. I believe this category will happen. Cost aside, I will much prefer...

Tags: Media players, Handhelds, Digital music, Digital media, price argument, palmtop, PC, Lance

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

FedEx couples Google Earth with active package tracking

Federal Express is running a "limited pilot" that couples sensor technologies to track a packages temperature, location, humidity levels and delivery status with Web 2.0 tools such as Google Earth, according to FedEx CIO Robert Carter. Carter, speaking at the Wharton Technology Conference in...

Tags: Google, RFID, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Sun's new mantra: Brutal efficiency at deep scale

At a recent meeting with analysts, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos reiterated what has become the Jonathan Schwartz era strategy--to become the early 21st century version of the IBM mainframe see Nick Carrs post on the topic. Sun CEO Schwartz has been harping on the idea that demand for compute power...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Utility computing, virtualization, Sun, Broadband, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos

Blog posts 2007-02-11

Microsoft reveals Window Mobile 6 and we have all the details

Microsoft was expected to reveal their new Windows Mobile operating system, previously codenamed Crossbow, on Monday at the 3GSM event in Spain. Events suddenly changed and the NDA was lifted a few days early so stayed up much later than planned to give all of my readers here my first...

Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, On the road, Review, Smartphone, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Under the Microsoft tent at CES 2007

I spent most of the first day at the Consumer Electronics Show CES on January 8 doing what youd expect from a full-time Microsoft watcher: Meeting with Microsoft execs under the Microsoft press tent; touring the Vista hardware showcase; and wading through the crowds in the...

Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows Mobile, CES 2007, Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Consumer Electronics Show, team

Blog posts 2007-01-08

Motorola Q is coming to Sprint soon

I have been checking out the new Sprint EV-DO Rev. A service with a Novatel USB device for a couple weeks and have been thinking about adding Sprint to my mobile arsenal for their high speed data at a reasonable rate. I am trying to decide between a mobile phone...

Tags: Sprint Communications, Wireless carriers, Smartphone

Blog posts 2007-01-04

A (Microsoft) code name a day: Yamazaki

Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead -- there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest....

Tags: Handhelds, Operating systems, codename, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-12-19

News to know: Blackberry orphans; Tech energy woes

Headlines of the day... Microsoft codename of the day: Crossbow. Silicon Valley faces energy crisis.Hard times at National Semiconductor.The Video Startup That May Never Launch.Google tunes into radio ads. From Googles mouth. Googles Picasa also now supports Vista.iPhone launch: later rather than sooner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes takes Ubuntus latest beta for...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Office 2007 file format is incompatible with all mobile devices

You may have seen the news that people like Russell Shaw discussed that there are some Mac incompatibility issues with Office 2007 file formats. I am confident that someone will come out with a fix like Microsoft did for Office 2003 and if not there is always OpenOffice as an...

Tags: mobile device, mobile, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Apple, Smartphone, Mobile software, Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2006-12-06

MobileTechRoundup show #80

Listen here (MP3, 32MB, 35 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS The gang starts off MobileTechRoundup show #80 on a football tangent, but then gets back on track by...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, podcast, Tablet PC, MoTR podcast, Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Microsoft floats a new Shared Source trial balloon

Microsoft traditionally has used its ten-year-old Windows CE platform as a testing ground for source-code code-licensing strategy. On November 1, the company took another step in this arena by making all of its Windows CE 6.0 kernel available under a new element of Microsoft's Shared Source licensing program. "This...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows CE, Shared Source

Blog posts 2006-11-01