Brainboxes Bluetooth Products Chosen by Microsoft Developers of Windows CE Platform Builder.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LIVERPOOL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004 Brainboxes, the Bluetooth and serial PC add-on specialist, has announced that its range of adapters and converters for Bluetooth wireless technology have been selected by developers at Microsoft Corp. as test hardware for its Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. Platform Builder. Brainboxes has worked very closely over the last four years with development teams for Windows XP, Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile to ensure Brainboxes' wide range of Bluetooth products meet Microsoft's demanding standards. Windows CE Platform Builder is a development tool used by embedded developers to design, create, build and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. a Windows CE operating system image. The Brainboxes products have been selected by Microsoft as one of the designated companies to provide Bluetooth products that demonstrate Microsoft's Bluetooth software solution for Windows CE. Brainboxes is currently one of the few companies to offer Bluetooth adapters to support the full range of computer interfaces including USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , RS 232 adapter, RS 232 converter CompactFlash, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. and RS 232 module for Bluetooth embedded applications. In December of 2002 Brainboxes Bluetooth USB adapter was one of only two products to acquire Microsoft's WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) A Microsoft facility that provides testing services for hardware and drivers for compliance with its operating systems. WHQL administers various logos that compliant vendors may reprint on their packages. (Windows Hardware Quality Labs (body, standard) Windows Hardware Quality Labs - (WHQL) A Microsoft body that produces and supports the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Test kit for current Microsoft operating systems. ) which means it met the Designed for Windows XP standard and received the "Designed for Windows" logo. Microsoft established its "Designed for Windows" logo to help customers identify products that deliver a high-quality computing experience with the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The "Designed for Windows XP" logo on a product indicates that the product will be stable when running Windows XP; the related software or driver components can be installed or removed easily; and the basic experience with the product and the operating system will be the same or better after upgrading to future versions of Windows. "Brainboxes' Bluetooth products can be immediately deployed into a variety of Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile products powered by the Windows CE operating system," said Todd Brix, group product manager, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft. "We are seeing demand increase for Bluetooth solutions as device makers worldwide continue to add wireless personal area network into their designs." Eamonn Walsh, managing director of Brainboxes, added, "We are delighted that Microsoft has demonstrated further confidence in our products in selecting them as test devices for Windows CE developers." Brainboxes' range of Bluetooth adapters are available for next day delivery across Europe, North America and the Middle East through the company's international distribution channel. Further information available on the Brainboxes web site www.brainboxes.com About Brainboxes Established in 1984, Brainboxes is one of the leading PC communication card developers and manufacturers in the World. Headquartered in Liverpool, UK, it has a team of highly qualified software and hardware designers, matched by a world-class volume manufacturing facility. The company develops and owns all of its own core technologies, including USB, CompactFlash, PCMCIA, RS232 and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). products. It is at the forefront of developments in serial card and wireless technology. Current customers include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Fujitsu, Reuters, Motorola, Agilent, and BT. Further information is available from Brainboxes website at www.brainboxes.com Brainboxes(TM) is a trademark of the Brainboxes company. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. Ref: EME n. 1. An uncle. 9526 Photo ref: PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME. 4014 http://www.brainboxes.com/downloads/Microsoft.jpg |
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