In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need ...

The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news ...

The Nintendo Wii brawled its way to the top of the hardware sales list in March. It was the highest single-month unit sales of any platform outside the holiday timeframe, according to market research firm NPD Group. In this episode of The Reboot, host ...

Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow that could be as high as $150 million next ...

Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings.

In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in ...

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data ...

Fred Jentgen, American Marketing Manager for Intel, and Kevin Unbedacht, Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliance Channel Sales for Altiris (now a part of Symantec), discuss the continued integration of Intel’s vPro technology hooks into Altiris/Symantec software. Improvements on the initial feature set provide more ways to manage computers without actually touching ...

At their recent launch in New York City, HP Total Care took the spotlight, announcing a program designed to ease IT challenges for the full lifecycle of an HP purchase. HP Total Care’s aim is to provide before, during and after- purchase support, making it easier for companies ...

The HP Personal Systems Group recently unveiled its 2008 product line at a celebrity-studded event at Skylight Studios, in Manhattan (and yes, that’s “personal” as in, The Computer is Personal Again). In addition to HP’s new iPAQ handheld communications devices, its MediaSmart PC and MediaSmart Server, and a ...

We’ve been composting in our homemade worm bin for five months now. Through trials and tribulations, we’ve learned a lot about the right environment for worms! In fact we experimented so much that we managed to decimate our entire worm population. *Sigh*. Master composter and Freshtopia diva Barb Finnin ...

A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those were some of the concepts on display at the ...

Keen on Politics part 3; Robert Scoble goes inside Twitter; Snowballs and Fractals. Part 1 of Keen on Politics can be found here and part 2 can be found here.

For your weekend watch, here is the final part of “Keen on Politics,” the YouTube debate between Andrew ...

In today’s TechOne: Here is Keen on Politics part 2 of the YouTube debate between Andrew Keen, Steve Gillmor, Tony Perkins, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Heather Harde and Robert Scoble. Part 1 can be found here, and part 3 is here.

Also today: Tom Foremski talks with ...

TechOne debuts “Keen on Politics” a regular show. Here is the first of a three-part debate between Andrew Keen, Steve Gillmor, Tony Perkins, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Heather Harde and Robert Scoble on the topic of political debates and YouTube. Part 2 can be found here, and part ...

Larry Magid is pretty upset about the way some states’ attorneys general are blaming MySpace for the fact that there are pedophiles and other predators on the site, and proposing legislation that would restrict kids’ access to social networking sites. There are predators everywhere. The good news is that MySpace ...

Tina Brown, turnaround editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has written her first book, The Diana Chronicles. A bestseller about Lady Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, the book is very well-researched and thought out and ultimately as dull as the royal family.

You won’t believe who is hosting the Web sites of Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations.

The number of Americans killed fighting terrorists and insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan is now 3,628 and counting. But, apparently some U.S. Internet Service Providers don’t care enough to look into who some of their ...

Ravi Swaminathan is president of Hewlett Packard’s Personal Systems Group for India. He has countrywide responsibility for the entire range of consumer and commercial PCs, laptops, workstations and the emerging range of personal access devices including handhelds.

Ravi joined Compaq in 1995 and started the consumer PC business in India. ...

We’ve had bees on the brain! Freshtopia.net dove into the sad tale of Colony Collapse Disorder, or “CCD,” and its grim implications, to emerge on the other side with some words of wisdom on how to show our busy little sisters some love, and a sweet recipe to cheer us ...

James Burgett founded the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, essentially to make money off of equipment that other people thought was obsolete garbage. Thirteen years later he’s reformatted, refurbished and donated thousands of computers to folks who might not ever have the chance to own one. The ACCRC offers ...

Since 9/11, authorities have linked approximately 5,000 murders in the U.S. to people who suffer from the most severe mental illnesses. That’s 5,000 more deaths in the U.S. than have been attributed to our most-feared terrorist enemy, Al-Qaeda.

In this episode of The Big Picture on Security, I talk with Mary ...

Gregory Bryant from Intel and Kevin Unbedacht from Altiris explain their new, closer working relationship, including features built into new Intel processors enabling easier management.

Fred Kanter is part genius, part visionary and part eccentric. He’s the kind of guy who makes you believe he could move mountains by his belief in the power of his ideas and the sheer strength of will to bring those ideas to fruition. That’s why it was such ...