SSL Certificate Server 2012 Essentials
Published. June 18, 2013

How can I get my SSL certificate to work correctly with Windows 2012 Essentials (specifically the remote web access feature). I *think* I installed the certificate correctly but it's not working :(...

#CHIPS: "Intel Application Processors Outperform ARM"
Published. June 18, 2013

When you beef-up an ARM processor to run a high-end operating system, such as Windows 8, it looses its low-cost/low-power advantage over Intel application processors, according to ABI Research: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Further Reading...

All About Microsoft

Microsoft delivers biggest update to date to TypeScript
Published. June 19, 2013

Microsoft updates its superset of JavaScript, known as TypeScript, with a slew of new features, including the addition of generics....

Mocana Device Blog

R.I.P. Symbian OS
Published. June 17, 2013

One of the first mobile operating systems, Symbian, is final at an end. But Nokia, the company that developed the OS is promising continued technical support through 2016. The last phone to include Symbian is the Nokia Pureview 808. Nokia today supports the Windows mobile edition. The 200 to 300 million Symbian devices still active [...]...

Mocana Device Blog

R.I.P. Symbian OS
Published. June 17, 2013

One of the first mobile operating systems, Symbian, is final at an end. But Nokia, the company that developed the OS is promising continued technical support through 2016. The last phone to include Symbian is the Nokia Pureview 808. Nokia today supports the Windows mobile edition. The 200 to 300 million Symbian devices still active [...]...

Approaching Windows Embedded Intelligently

Windows Embedded Compact 2013: a developer’s perspective
Published. June 13, 2013

Posted By Colin MurphyTechnical Program Manager, Microsoft’s Windows Embedded What is Windows Embedded Compact 2013? It is just the latest, and of course greatest, version of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Compact componentized OS, formerly known as Windows CE. Did you know that Microsoft has been in the embedded space with this operating system for over 15 years?  In that time, this little OS has evolved from one target category--small handheld devices--to a general-purpose embedded...

Blog Post: Another look at Code Composer Studio in Education
Published. June 7, 2013

Last week our new hire, Dusica Lukic, wrote a post explaining her navigation of TI's licensing options for Code Composer Studio. The post addressed a problem that I have seen some educators struggle with when trying to navigate TI for the first time. I speculate that the cause of this difficulty is in knowing how to navigate TI (with how many products and the size of what TI has to offer). Inspired by her fresh viewpoint, I wanted to try and re-create her experience. I went to the...

BCL Team Blog

Portable Compression and HttpClient Working Together
Published. June 8, 2013

Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages: A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as well as ZIP archives. An updated Microsoft.Net.Http 2.2 (Beta). Last week we shipped an RTM version. Today, we released a new beta that provides automatic decompression by taking a dependency on the Microsoft.Bcl.Compression package. Before we go into the details, let’s first take a...

Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded

Does Altera Have “Big Data” Communications on the Brain?
Published. June 5, 2013

In wireless, wireline and financial “big data” applications, moving all those packets needs prodigious FPGA resources, not all of which Altera had before their recent series of acquisitions, partnerships, and otherwise wheeling-and-dealing. I caught up with an old friend at … Continue reading →...

First USB 3.0 Docking Stations Specifically Targetted at Tablets
Published. June 4, 2013

Belkin announced the release of the very first USB 3.0 Docking Stations specifically targetted at tablet PCs. The design is such that it allows the simultaneous use of 3 screens: the tablet screen and 2 screens attached to the docking station. At this time, the docking station supports Windows 8 Tablets which means that the [...]...

Linux and Open Source

Windows 8 continues to fail
Published. June 3, 2013

Microsoft can only hope that its re-invention of Windows 8, Windows 8.1 aka Blue, works because currently stats indicate Windows 8 lags behind even Vista's dismal market numbers....

Laptops and Desktops Blog

Computex 2013: Acer announces first 8-inch Windows tablet, Haswell laptops
Published. June 4, 2013

At its Computex press conference Acer announced what it said is the industry’s first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, its first "phablet," and updates to its Aspire S3 and S7 laptops—all equipped with touchscreens....

Mike Jensen's Blog

EDA vs. Windows 8
Published. May 6, 2013

I have read a lot in recent months about Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest incarnation of its flagship Windows operating system. While there are many new features over and above its Windows 7 predecessor, one thing that makes me quite curious about Windows 8 is its optimization for touchscreen technology. Note that I have yet to [...]...

EDA Blog

Download ADLINK AD-Logger and DAQBench for Free
Published. May 3, 2013

Thanks to ADLINK Technology, engineers can download AD-Logger and DAQBench for free. AD-Logger is a ready-to-run data capture application. DAQBench provides ActiveX controls used for creating professional instrumentation applications using ActiveX development environments. AD-Logger and DAQBench are compatible with ADLINK’s full range of data acquisition modules and digitizers. Both tools are compatible with 32-bit Windows [...]...

McAfee Labs

Blackhole Exploit Kit Spam Campaigns Disguised as Top Service Brands
Published. April 17, 2013

Spam campaigns based on the Blackhole Exploit Kit send messages that contain links to compromised legitimate websites, which serve hidden iframes and redirections that exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems–from Android to Windows. Spam themes we have seen vary rapidly and are disguised to appear as legitimate messages from familiar services. Campaigns spoofing Facebook, LinkedIn, American Read more......

The Moth

Effectiveness and Efficiency
Published. April 13, 2013

In the professional environment, i.e. at work, I am always seeking personal growth and to be challenged. The result is that my assignments, my work list, my tasks, my goals, my commitments, my [insert whatever word resonates with you] keep growing (in scope and desired impact). Which in turn means I have to keep finding new ways to deliver more value, while not falling into the trap of working more hours. To do that I continuously evaluate both my effectiveness and my efficiency. EFFECTIVENESS ...

Dual Targeting and Agile Prototyping of Embedded Software on Windows
Published. April 12, 2013

When developing embedded code for devices with non-trivial user interfaces, it often pays off to build a prototype (virtual prototype) of the embedded system of a PC. The strategy is called “dual targeting”, because you develop software on one machine (e.g., Windows PC) and run it on a deeply embedded target. Dual targeting is the [...]...

Dual Targeting and Agile Prototyping of Embedded Software on Windows
Published. April 12, 2013

When developing embedded code for devices with non-trivial user interfaces, it often pays off to build a prototype (virtual prototype) of the embedded system of a PC. The strategy is called “dual targeting”, because you develop software on one machine (e.g., Windows PC) and run it on a deeply embedded target. Dual targeting is the [...]...

Now Showing on AMD Everywhere – Adobe Premiere Pro with Real-Time editing and Finishing
Published. April 5, 2013

Now Showing on AMD Everywhere – Adobe Premiere Pro with Real-Time Editing and Effects Today at the National Association of Broadcasters tradeshow (NAB), AMD  announced a collaboration with Adobe to deliver OpenCL™ powered hardware-accelerated for the first time on the Microsoft … Continue reading...

Comment on Were the Five Recent/Worst Mass Murderers in the US Democrats? by Harry Hedgecock
Published. April 4, 2013

Could you lie any more Mr. Holden? Allow me to show your readers the entire list of everything found in his room via a search warrant, except for guns, clips and bullets, there was a lot of them, that would have taken up to much space, My point is to demonstrate there was no large amounts of NRA literature as Mr. Holden claims. In fact the contents found via the search warrant revealed absolutely none, and instruction manuals, come with guns when they are purchased. However Mr. Holden feels he can...

Comment on Were the Five Recent/Worst Mass Murderers in the US Democrats? by Harry Hedgecock
Published. April 4, 2013

Could you lie any more Mr. Holden? Allow me to show your readers the entire list of everything found in his room via a search warrant, except for guns, clips and bullets, there was a lot of them, that would have taken up to much space, My point is to demonstrate there was no large amounts of NRA literature as Mr. Holden claims. In fact the contents found via the search warrant revealed absolutely none, and instruction manuals, come with guns when they are purchased. However Mr. Holden feels he can...

scalability.org

Windows 8 is terrible
Published. March 26, 2013

No, thats unfair to things that are truly terrible. It sets a low mark … a really … really … low mark. Trying to help a relative with adding a printer. A printer that happily works under windows 7. No issues, just works. Works under Linux on my laptop here. Nothing special, just works. But [...]...

scalability.org

Windows 8 is terrible
Published. March 26, 2013

No, thats unfair to things that are truly terrible. It sets a low mark … a really … really … low mark. Trying to help a relative with adding a printer. A printer that happily works under windows 7. No issues, just works. Works under Linux on my laptop here. Nothing special, just works. But [...]...

CEA Digital Dialogue

Five Connected Car Experts You Should Follow on Twitter
Published. March 13, 2013

Car technology has come a long way since cassette players and roll-down windows. Here are five experts who cover and discuss the latest innovations in this product category....

Joel on Software

Town Car Version Control
Published. March 12, 2013

The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features is Kiln Harmony, which lets you operate on Kiln repositories using either Git or Mercurial. So you can push changes to a Kiln repo using Git and then pull them using Mercurial. This means that you never have to decide whether you want to use Git or Mercurial. Religious war: averted. But, I’m getting ahead of myself! For those of you that have been...

Startup Engineers See-Through Solar Cells
Published. February 25, 2013

A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.Imagine a world where any surface could be coated with solar cells, converting sunlight and even the glow of light bulbs into small amounts of usable energy. This is the goal of a new startup called Ubiquitous Energy. The company hopes to develop affordable, transparent coatings and films that could harvest light energy when applied to windows or the screens of e-readers or tablet devices. One way to use...

Embedded World 2013: Virtual Platforms Connected to Everything
Published. February 22, 2013

Sometimes it is hard to explain why certain ideas take off and why others don’t. There are many stories of poor products that are more successful than much better products. There are also many stories about products that struggle in one time or place, but the same thing is a big hit at another time in history. This is especially difficult for engineers who tend to analyze everything.Embedded World 2013 starts Tuesday (Feb. 26, 2013) in Nuremberg, Germany. Since the event revolves...

The Java Posse

Java Posse #408 - Roundup '12 - Tools for Running a Business
Published. February 12, 2013

Roundup ‘12 - Tools for Running a Business Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2012 in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Roundup, Feb 25th to March 1st. Big Data and the Cloud.http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Microsoft Excel http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/ Expensify https://www.expensify.com/ Quickbooks Online http://quickbooksonline.intuit.com/ OneReceipt http://www.onereceipt.com/ Mint.com https://www.mint.com/ Moneydance http://moneydance.com/ Kashoo...

GreenTech Pastures

Microsoft offers progress report on carbon-neutral pledge
Published. February 13, 2013

The developer's internal carbon fee is funding investments in energy efficiency and purchases of renewable energy credits....

Windows Embedded Blog

Windows Embedded Keynote at SMART TECHnology World
Published. March 26, 2012

On Friday 23rd March 2012 Kevin Dallas, General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft delivered a keynote presentation at SMART TECHnology World, during the keynote Kevin is joined by Michael Allison, IT Administrator of Hillcrest Medical Center, Tom Romano, CIO of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Jim Buczkowski, a Technical Fellow at Ford to discuss the emergence and value of Intelligent Systems Here’s a link to the keynote video - Mike...

IronKey Meets Windows To Go
Published. December 28, 2012

This Blog is Moving!
Published. July 9, 2012

This blog site is being incorporated into a new, more integrated blog site that covers all things Embedded. As of today we will no longer be posting news and announcements on this site but will be posting to the new site instead- Approaching Embedded Intelligently. We have migrated a number of useful articles to this new site already so you will not lose these troubleshooting and information resources- you can find them under the Products Update discussion topic. We hope you enjoy the new site!...

Brian's Brain

Windows Media Center and Comcast: The frustration hasn't yet fully passed
Published. February 6, 2013

Establishing CableCARD-supported cable television service with Comcast, and tackling Microsoft Windows Media Center hiccups are not easy tasks....

Info surfaces on the new Microsoft Surface
Published. October 19, 2012

If you want to know more about the Surface tablet computer, have a look at this page: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/7/A/37A9C06B-DB3D-4189-99EC-C1EE175234DE/HelpMeChoose.pdf The price for the RT version is $499 to $830. The price for the Windows version with the higher res display has not been given as of yet....

Simon Phipp's Blog

Has Microsoft finally embraced open source?
Published. February 1, 2013

News broke Wednesday about Microsoft adding support for Git to Visual Studio, both in the client -- so that it can be used read more...

John Coyne's Embedded Blog

Compact 7 Webcast–June 19th!
Published. May 21, 2012

  Our Windows Embedded Compact 7 team is hosting a Webcast on June 19th! Image Tuning to balance Performance and Power in Windows Embedded Compact 7 The demands of the embedded world make creating the best image possible an absolute requirement. ...(read more)...

Soft Talk - Multicore and Parallel Programming

Merry Christmas from Intel
Published. December 4, 2012

Intel is sponsoring the Android Christmas party at The Counting House this Thursday – an informal evening of food, drinks, and Android chat. Kicking off the evening, there’s going to be a quick presentation on developing apps for Android on Windows 8 and Ultrabooks. I’m looking forward to finding a bit more about this from [...]...

Frank Schirrmeister Blog

A 10-year Look-Back from 2013 – Some Technology Predictions that are Coming True!
Published. January 23, 2013

It is January 2013, the year has begun and it is time for my annual 10 year look-back to see how well technology predictions have been implemented or missed (you can find last year's look-back here). This year's trip into the garage to find my old January IEEE Spectrum issues brought back memories of where I was personally at that time. Following the dot.com bust I had followed the Silicon Valley mantra that you cannot have lived there without having been involved with a couple of startups...

Open Mobile Summit -- What‘s Happening in the World of Applications
Published. November 15, 2010

I attended last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco last week. This is a twice-a-year event, once here and once in London. The conference attracted over 600 attendees to discuss the world of mobile applications -- open mobile, to be precise. There were chip suppliers (TI, Qualcomm, Intel, etc), device suppliers (HTC, Motorola, RIM, Samsung, etc), applications developers (Zynga, LinkedIn, Foursquare, etc), carriers (AT&T, Orange, Verizon, Sprint, Rogers, etc), advertising agencies, content...

Intel vs ARM - Did the Embedded Systems Conference India Shed Light on the Battle?
Published. August 5, 2009

Being a Brit, Cricket is never very far from my thoughts especially when travelling to India, the biggest cricket mad nation in the world. There is a saying in cricket that you should always think of doing what the opposition would least like, a statement that applies in business too. I was on my way to present a session on Verifying Embedded SW Power Management” at the Embedded System Conference in Bangalore. With the recent activity by Intel firstly joining forces with TSMC to deliver...

Missing Real-World Assertions in Computer-Land
Published. September 26, 2011

I was reviewing the page view statistics on the Cadence Functional verification blog and noticed that my previous three posts about missing real-world assertions are among the most read. So, in the spirit of milking the cash cow, I've collected a few more incidents that amused me with their utter illogic. My examples this time all have to do with some aspect of computer programs or Web sites being out of sync with the times in which we live. As a member of several airline frequent-flier programs,...