Go Embedded!

Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani would be in Delhi to speak at MS Academic days at Delhi University on 28 Jan, 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/academicdays/

The venue is:

Conference Center
Opposite Department of Botany, Delhi University

Update:

We reached the venue about 1 hour late. Thanks to Delhi traffic which two hours to reach DU North Campus from Dwaraka. On getting there, Pratibha was speaking about .Net Technologies and how it’s really use it with various Visual Studio Express Editions. The hall was jam packed – 500+ attendance. When I and Yashvant got on the stage, it was 3:45 p.m. The crowd was very receptive and our presentation was very well received by faculty and students alike. The event was also endorsed by CSI (Computer Society of India), Delhi Chapter. Next one is in Chennai at Anna University.

Yashavant and Asang will be in Delhi to speak at NSIT’s INNOVISION 2006. The event is at 10:30 a.m. on January 28, 2006. Event website is:

http://www.innvi.com/

Yashavant and Asang were in Pune to speak about Next Generation Computing at Indira Institute.

http://www.indiraedu.com/public/groupPages/default.asp

The event was very well received and all those present were stunned by the live demonstrations and presentations made.

We were greeted with students at JNTU with great enthusiasm. There were more than 800 participants at the venue. The auditorium could hold only 200! Finally more than 300 people were permitted in the hall. Of them many sitting on the floor not a place to be found. The event was very well received with live demonstrations that thrilled those who attended and letting them know what they could do. Organizers promised the participants that they will get us to their campus once again in near future. Thanks to all the students at JNTU for their love and affection.

Go Embedded! 2006

“Go Embedded! 2006”, an event organized by Kanetkar School Of Embedded Technology got everybody Embedded into the wonderful world of Embedded Systems and Mobile computing at one of its kind seminar on Sunday 15th Jan 06 at IMA Hall. Around 650 participants from Nagpur, Bhopal, Indore, Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar attended this unique seminar. The early birds received T-shirts, whereas a set of 6 CDs containing

Microsoft Windows CE was also distributed free for each participant. The crowd was stunned by the classic demonstrations of Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing by speakers Yashavant Kanetkar and Asang Dani. In the demos they explained the power of technologies like DirectX, Bluetooth, WDM, etc. The speakers were controlling each others presentations through WinCE based mobile phones and were able to change the displays remotely. The novel way of synchronized presentations and demonstrations amazed the crowd.

Mr Abhishekh Kant, Community Manager, Microsoft Corp India inaugurated the seminar and made the attendees aware about the community development projects by Microsoft. The programme was successfully compered by Aditya Kanetkar. Based on feedback collected at the end of seminar all participants were visibly pleased. KSET proposes to make this a regular event in Central India. With the response that this event received this year, it’s clear that such events will continue to attract more and more people in future.

This is first of its kind event Mobile and Embedded Systems event in Central India. It woul highlight Importance of embedded systems, .Net Compact Framework and SmartPhone programming along with WinCE 5.0.Today, we are being driven by revolution in Embedded Technology. It has created and impact in every facet of modern life: Cell phones, answering machines, microwave ovens, televisions, DVD players etc. Even PCs contain several embedded systems. Tremendous growth in embedded computing has given rise to demand for professionals with experience in designing and implementing embedded systems. After all, someone has to create hardware and write software for the Embedded Devices. The International market on a whole expects a product development in Embedded Systems to the tune of U.S. $75 billion and a requirement of around 150000 trained professionals by 2006. However, there is lot of confusion about what embedded systems are and how to learn about them. Traditional Universities don’t team courses in Embedded Systems and textbooks don’t deal with this in a manner that is understood by students.
Speakers at the event include Mr. Abhishek Kant, Community Program Manager, Microsoft India, Mr. Yashavant Kanetkar and Mr. Asang Dani from Kanetkar School of Embedded Technology. This seminar will contain live demonstrations containing real, functional embedded systems and show how next generation computing devices are built. You will clearly see how you may fit in the puzzle and what your career opportunities in this area are.
Registration for this event is free. It has limited seats to be taken on first come first served basis.

For Registrations, rush to:

Kanetkar School of Embedded Technology or KICIT at:
44A Hill Road Gokulpeth
Nagpur, 440010
Tel: 0712-2545322, 2531046

Nice Article about WinCE 5.0 for real-time applications

• http://www.embedded-computing.com/articles/id/?229
• http://www.embedded-computing.com/pdfs/Microsoft.Nov05.pdf

Bill Gates about Windows Mobile @ CES 2006

New Device Partnerships

Another area of investment for us has, of course, been the Windows Mobile area, and we got into that about three years ago. We’ve seen a great growth in terms of getting down the learning curve, the breadth of the relationships and depth of the relationships we have. And, in fact, we’ve got more than a hundred Smart Phones out now with 93 mobile operators in 55 countries.

This year we’ll ship more than five million devices, which is a 36 percent year over year increase, and we have some really fantastic stuff coming out this year. In fact, probably right at the top of the list I’d put this new device here. This one you probably heard about, we announced it just a few months ago. It’s our partnership with Palm, and Palm does a fantastic job on their devices. Here they were able to take our platform and do a number of unique things that had never been done before. They were able to take and build an ability that they would be able to make it all work with a single-click operation.

Now underway, International Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas:
http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/conferences/default.asp

Windows CE 4.2/5.0 BSP Support
  msdn.microsoft.com/…/bsp/supbsps/default.aspx