I have a data collection app that needs to end up on a Windows-based handheld. This will be a handheld that does barcode scanning in a manufacturing type environment. Some of the more expensive ...

Surprised to see no mention of the Compaq iPaq line. This was perhaps the pinnacle of Windows PDAs that successfully competed with the Palm Pilot. I still think of them as the signature Windows CE ...

John T. Mawhinney, Enterprise System Engineer, Peak Technologies, Inc.

The Redmond, Wash. software giant on Wednesday released its sixth-generation embedded systems tool kit, Windows Embedded CE 6.0. As part of the announcement, Microsoft said it would give customers and ...

As it looks toward handhelds and cell phones, Microsoft works with chip designer ARM to increase the number of chipmakers tuning their products for Windows CE .Net. Michael Kanellos is editor at large ...

Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 Windows CE does more than windows. This 32-bit operating system (OS) works equally well in deeply embedded applications such as Internet appliances and handheld devices such ...

Nvidia is announcing today that it wants to enable $99 mobile internet devices that can play high-definition graphics. The so-called MIDs are smaller than laptop computers but less functional. Their ...

Minimo, the Mozilla browser for mobile devices, will debut on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system this summer, according to the Mozilla Foundation. Current versions of Minimo only work on ...

Hoping to boost the use of its Windows CE software in devices, Microsoft Corp. plans to announce on Monday that it will share more of the operating system’s source code and allow device makers to make ...

Employees at Houston-based St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System liked the convenience of carrying handheld Windows CE devices to update patient information over a wireless LAN during rounds. But ...

Sybase hopes to make life easier for enterprises wanting to enable access to their database applications from mobile devices. The company has extended its PowerBuilder database application development ...