Unlike Simputer which failed to deliver on it's promise, and is limited to small form-factor, this one appears to be for real and it's not pipedreaming. Wonderful effort and vision on part of MIT Media Lab. Following is the interview by Nicholas Negroponte - MIT Media Lab Director. http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/07laptop.htm Best of all, this laptop proposes to run on human power i.e.

RTOS capabilities of WinCE vis-a-vis VxWorks and Linux

The event was held at Targore Auditorium in Osmania University. It was nice to see hundreds of students throng the hallways to hear about latest in C/C++ and embedded systems. The demos were very well received and DirectX based games and Bluetooth based remote keyboard were seen to have stirred those present. It is our sincere hope that students grab the opportunities and make most of it by learning new things and building products of tomorrow. That completes our tour for VS Express Editions in 2005.

Embedded World 2006 was organized at Nurnberg, Messe. Getting there via German public transportation system was really easy. The exhibition and technical events were hosted in a series of halls. Keynote address on 14th February by Jerry McGuire of Analog Devices stressed on need for convergence of MCU and DSP worlds. He touted that their Blackfin architecture fits the bill. Most technical talks were dominated by German and French speakers. Communicating their thoughts across to the world audience was obviously not very easy for them.

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.

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.