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Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 Quick Start Workshop 18/04/2005

Another successful Microsoft Windows CE5.0 hands-on workshop, was held on the 27th April 2005.
The seminars are staged in conjunction with Abacus Polar, at their offices in Newbury.
The intensive 1 day Windows CE 5.0 'Quick Start' workshops are hands-on seminars covering all the topics necessary to get up and running with your Windows CE project, including:

• CE OS Architecture
• Creating OS Designs with Platform Builder
• New features in CE 5
• OS / application debugging

Please note that we are also finalising details of our next Windows XP Embedded seminar, and further information will be posted shortly.
For further details of both CE 5.0 and XP Embedded seminars, please contact Alan Rowe.

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Medical Electronics - reducing time to market 18/04/2005

Some months ago we announced that Medical Product development work was booming at MPC Data and that we were focussed on a number of Windows Embedded design wins. That was only part of the story and to complete the picture we have expanded and updated the Medical Product pages on this site. If you are developing, or planning to develop a device for the medical electronics sector, then please click here to find out more.

Our track record in designing, implementing and testing software for medical products proves that we can get your next device to market faster.

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MPC Data's Anniversary 08/02/2005

MPC Data is proud to announce that we have been delivering high quality software services to the world's leading product development companies for 20 years now. We officially began trading as MPC Data on 15th January 1985, and since then we have steadily grown in both size and reputation. We have also constantly updated and expanded our skill set, always with the objective of giving our customers even better service.

To recognise the contribution made by our staff to MPC Data's success, we arrangedfor everyone to take a much earned break in the beautiful Old Quarter of Prague last weekend.

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MPC Data has started the New Year with the announcement of four new members of staff 18/01/2005

Phil Peddle, a graduate who was recently awarded a first in Computer Systems Engineering following a final year study entitled "An Investigation into 3D Model-Based Video Compression". This combined research into the history of model-based compression and the various techniques used, then a detailed analysis of the model-based compression component of the MPEG-4 standard. A piece of software was
written to demonstrate one aspect of this standard -the Facial Animation Parameters- which could be used to deform a 3D facial model.

Steve Dingle – a senior appointment of an experienced software engineer. Steve has extensive requirements analysis and process definition experience across a wide range of business and user applications. Steve has managed and designed major projects and brings wide applications knowledge, including digital tv and telecommunications.

Simeon Veck – an experienced software developer with over 20 years commercial experience both in software and electronics, with exposure to hardware development and testing. Simeon’s impressive range of experience includes SH-Mobile3 and µItron, the popular operating environment for mobile handsets.

We welcome the return of Chris Peerman, a MEng software engineering graduate who spent his sandwich year with us at MPC Data and contributed to software development for the Egan interactive whiteboard.