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The Reboot: Sports Games at E3

Rio Pesino — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:01:47 +0000

E3 isn’t known as a showcase for sports games, but this year’s event featured some of the hottest new sports titles. Madden 09, NBA Live 09, TNA iMPACT, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 and Wii Sports: Resort were just a few of the playable games at E3. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino highlights these games and more, including Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Pure and Smash Court Tennis 3.

Tags: E3 2008, Madden 09, NBA Live 09, Pure, Rio Pesino, Smash Court Tennis 3, The Reboot, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, TNA iMPACT, Wii Sports: Resort, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009

Server Consolidation Best Practices with VMware and HP

editor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:49:10 +0000

In this podcast, learn best practices for planning server virtualization and consolidation from VMware and HP experts. Ensure your virtualization project is a success with these tips on target applications, storage and networking considerations, process changes and much more. Listen to Rob Smoot of VMware and James Lomonaco from HP as they offer real-world advice on how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure using assessment services as well as advanced functionality that will improve availability, drive up utilization and make your administrators more productive.

Speakers:
Rob Smoot, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware
James Lomonaco, HP ISS, Product Marketing Manager, HP

Tags: virtualization, VMware, HP, storage, networking, Rob Smoot, James Lomonaco

Building an Adaptive Infrastructure with VMware and HP

editor — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:40:38 +0000

Together, HP and VMware enable you to virtualize server resources and consolidate multiple applications and heterogeneous operating systems onto a single HP ProLiant server. As a result, you can optimize your computing resources, increase scalability, and improve management efficiency.

Listen to this podcast to learn how VMware and HP have teamed up to deliver an adaptive infrastructure that helps you reduce costs, increase agility and be more competitive.

Speakers:
Rob Smoot, Group Manager, Product Marketing, VMware
James Lomonaco, HP ISS, Product Marketing Manager, HP

Tags: HP, VMware, virtualize, operating systems, ProLiant server, scalability, Rob Smoot, James Lomonaco

Bourquin Brothers on The Transition to New Media

Brad Baldwin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:35:52 +0000

Tim and Emile Bourquin are the founders and producers of the New Media Expo, the most popular convention for podcasters, online video creators and bloggers. The expo and 2,000+ attendees are heading to Las Vegas August 14-16, 2008. Registration is still open, but the special “early” rate ends June 30th.

Brad Baldwin connects with Tim and Emile at a Podcast Tuneup party where they were talk about adding more video and live streaming sessions at this year’s expo. They also discuss the transition of traditional media outlets that are adopting and incorporating new media into their content offerings.

Special thanks to the Podcast Tuneup team for use of their new recording studio for this podcast.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, Emile Bourquin, new media, New Media Expo, Podcast Tuneup, RockyMountainVoices, Tim Bourquin

MailShadow Syncs Outlook to Gmail and Google Apps

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:28:04 +0000

Cemaphore Systems’ MailShadow for Google Apps keeps your Microsoft Outlook environment in sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Gmail Contacts. Make a change in one, and the other is instantly updated to reflect the change. MailShadow for Google Apps is receiving a lot of attention since organizations can eliminate the expensive infrastructure, hardware, and co-location facilities required by Exchange, but still allow users to leverage the client-side productivity features in Outlook.

Tracy Scott, the VP of Marketing at Cemaphore, shows the beta version of MailShadow for Google Apps to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices. And if you’re interested in giving it a try, the beta sign-up is still open.

Tags: Brad Baldwin, Cemaphore Systems, Gmail, Google, MailShadow, Tracy Scott

The Reboot: The Pro Gamer Experience

Rio Pesino — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:01:16 +0000

Gaming is a hobby for most people, but a select few have enough talent and dedication to make it a career. Tournaments for popular games like Halo 3, Guitar Hero, Madden and NBA 2k8 are held all around the world, with huge prizes at stake. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino puts himself in the shoes of a professional gamer and shares his experience entering an NBA 2k8 tournament, progressing through the ranks and winning it all… against a bunch of kids.

Tags: Gaming, Halo 3, Guitar Hero, Madden, NBA 2k8, The Reboot, Rio Pesino, professional gamer, pro gamer

Intel Helps Developers With Multi-Threaded Software Community

editor — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:53:44 +0000

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 for the software that will help to realize the higher performance potential of multi-core. Intel is leading the effort to adopt with key software packages and developer tools that make it easier to write multi-threaded code.

To find out what Intel is doing for the community, check out the community site, “Threading for Multi-Core Developer Community.” There, Intel and the community share tools and expertise with featured articles, threading analysis tools, industry benchmarks, training, and access to Intel developers and experts, for training and best practices information.

Krishnapura is a principal engineer in the Intel Platform and Design Capability Engineering group, driving the internal engineering of High Performance Computing solutions optimized for Tapeout and Design Computing. As an architect of Intel Architecture migration program for Electronic Design Automation, Shesha is responsible for enabling IA-based optimization and adoption in EDA market by enabling application vendors and strategically influencing world-wide semiconductor customers for best-in-class design compute solutions.

Tags: Tim Phillips, Shesha Krishnapura, multi-core processors, multi-threaded software, multi-threaded code, threading analysis, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

Intel Lowers Energy Costs for High Performance Computing

editor — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:04 +0000

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 to share, in this podcast speaking with The Register’s Tim Phillips. Says Krishnapura, “In the past, that power relationship has existed. But with Intel’s core microarchitecture platform, the power holds constant while performance climbs.”

Intel is working to improve the performance-per-watt characteristics of HPC systems. The effort is important, as Xeon-based servers dominate the Top 500 supercomputers list and the clusters used by businesses for their most demanding jobs.

Fist of all, Intel’s throughput-per-rack measurement helps illustrate the point when Intel 45nm-based quad-core processors run at similar power levels as dual-core processors, while offering twice the number of processing cores per server. Add Intel’s switch to higher density memory like 4GB memory modules instead of 2GB modules — the 4GB run at similar power envelope — and it’s clear where Intel is holding a fairly stable power envelope and still seen what Krishnapura calls, “a substantial performance increase, year after year.”

Tags: Shesha Krishnapura, Tim Phillips, Xeon, servers, 45nm, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

Intel Research Day: Showcase for Creativity

Paul Lancour — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:31 +0000

When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 Research@Intel Day, to be held at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hear from some of Intel’s key players when it comes to the next generations of technology. Hear what Intel Research is focusing on now from Andrew Chien, vice president, corporate technology group and director of Intel Research; Intel Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporate Technology Group Justin Rattner; and Eric Brewer, director, Intel Research Berkeley.

Research Day is a chance to check in Intel on the future impacts that its advanced chip technologies will have on human health, mobility, innovation and, of course, computing - from Terascale architecture, software and programming issues to visual computing challenges.

You can hear more from Andrew Chien, here talking about essential computing, “the vision that drives Intel Research.” Justin Rattner shares some thoughts on virtual words as a precursor to the 3D Internet, and Eric Brewer, also a professor of comptuer science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about how research from his Berkeley lab could lead to better technologies for the developing world.

Past coverage of Research@Intel Day

Tags: virtual worlds, Research@Intel Day, Silicon Valley, Intel, Andrew Chien, Justin Rattner, Eric Brewer, mobility, Terascale, essential computing

F5 and HP Partner to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007

Michael Johnson — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:01 +0000

HP ran tests on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 using F5 technology, and the results were dramatic: F5’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator improved throughput to the branch office by up to 8x in a symmetric configuration. Listen to this podcast to hear about the testing methodologies and results, discussed by Jimi Ibbett, senior member of the technical staff, Solutions Alliances Engineering at HP; Ryan Korock, solutions architect at F5; and Jeff Bellamy, senior business development manager at F5. You’ll also learn more about the HP-F5 partnership and F5’s Application Ready Network for Microsoft.

Tags: HP, Microsoft, SharePoint, F5, WebAccelerator, Jimi Ibbett, Ryan Korock, Jeff Bellamy, Application Ready Network, ARN

Infopia’s SaaS eCommerce Platform for Growing eTailers

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:03 +0000

Applying the right technology solutions to enhance business growth is something Bjorn Espenes, CEO at Infopia, is passionate about. As a growth company itself, Infopia delivers a SaaS (software as a service) eCommerce platform for businesses that need to manage the common operational challenges that growth creates. Things like inventory management and merchandising, order management, and shipping and fulfillment all work together in a seamless online system.

Infopia is the “next step” for many of the savviest online sellers looking to grow their business. Titanium and Platinum PowerSellers on eBay, not to mention multi-million dollar merchants who primarily sell on their Web sites, have dramatically improved revenues with Infopia.

Espenes sits down with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices to share the Infopia story and highlight the business problems Infopia solves. Espense shows why he was recognized as one of the Top 40 Executives Under 40 and a member of vSpring Capital’s v100 Entrepreneurs.

Tags: Bjorn Espenes, SaaS, Ebay, ecommerce, infopia, inventory, online sellers, powerseller

The Reboot: Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero III - Six Months Later

Rio Pesino — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:27:10 +0000

There’s no doubt Rock Band and Guitar Hero have changed the way videogames are played. The casual and hardcore gamer are paying big bucks for plastic guitars, drums, mics and downloadable content and both games have been hugely successful at retail since they were released late last year and the music industry has taken notice. Both Rock Band and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock were given rave reviews by game critics at the time they were launched to the masses, but how are they rated today? With the continued release of DLC and durability of the equipment, one question that comes to mind is which game reigns supreme now? In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino answers those questions and gives you his hands-on experience with both games…six months later.

Tags: Activision, EA, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Harmonix, Rio Pesino, Rock Band, The Reboot, DLC

SNWSpotlight: The Week In Review

Paul Lancour — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:30:00 +0000

It’s a busy time of year for storage folks. For the many who made it to Orlando for this show, and for those who followed online from around the world, there was plenty to learn and share, from the floor (where you might have seen this IBM System Storage on display) to the Xiotech announcement. In this podcast, an overview of the week at Storage Networking World from keynote speakers, analysts, and industry leaders.

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World. It’s brought to you by LSI.

Tags: storage, Xiotech, Storage Networking World, SNWSpotlight, LSI

Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds

Jason Lopez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:47 +0000

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the crowd on the latest on the mobile Internet devices and their innovative technology, powered by the Intel Atom processor.

This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

Tags: Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Atom, Shanghai, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

editor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

DAZ 3D’s Digital Figures and Social Marketplace

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:12:19 +0000

DAZ Productions is a market leader in 3D graphics software and content creation. DAZ may be most well known for its “Victoria” line of articulated 3D figures and their popular and active Artzone.com community, a social marketplace for sharing art and exchanging ideas.

The DAZ Studio software — available as a free download, allows anyone to create their own 3D digital figures and content. The figures can be loaded into 3D posing and rendering applications to be posed or animated and then rendered. In addition, a wide variety of clothing, hair and other accessories are available for purchase which can be applied to the figures to achieve different looks.A variety of other support content is available from DAZ as well including such categories as vehicles, buildings, trees and plants, furniture, weapons, etc.

Christopher Creek, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, describes the business model to Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices, and then persuades Baldwin to pose inside a laser scanner that creates a 3D wire-frame model of his own body in 17 seconds.

Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is going to happen at the event in Shanghai.

Here, Gelsinger talks about the scheduled keynotes and new mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Gelsinger shares his fondest memories of IDF over the years.

If you aren’t attending in person, that’s not a problem. Intel blogs will keep the information flowing in both directions with regular updates, photos and video.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, IDF, IDF2008, Nehalem, WiMAX, Dunnington, Intel Research, Mobile Internet Devices, Intel Atom, Intel

The Reboot: Inside Video Games Live

Rio Pesino — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:01:20 +0000

Video Games Live is a festival highlighting some of the most popular video game music soundtracks performed by top orchestras and choirs. Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Mass Effect, Bioshock and Metal Gear Solid are just a few of the games featured at every show. The Reboot was at the Video Games Live event in San Francisco, which featured pianist Martin Leung and a rare rendition of the “Metroid” theme. In this episode, host Rio Pesino speaks with co-creator Tommy Tallarico about how Video Games Live was created, what makes it different than your typical symphony and why the event is for all music lovers, not just gamers.

Tags: Video Games Live, video game music, Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid, The Reboot, Martin Leung, Metroid, Rio Pesino, Tommy Tallarico, gamers

Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: Private Equity

Jason Lopez — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:30:21 +0000

From the panel, Private Equity and the Healthcare M&A Market: What’s on the Radar? comes this podcast featuring the panelists Benjamin Edmands, managing director, CCMP Capital; Jonathan Korngold, managing director, global head of healthcare, General Atlantic; Todd Richter, managing director, global healthcare group, head of financial sponsor coverage & transaction development, Bank of America; and Nathaniel Zilkha, principal, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The panel is part of the The Deal’s Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium.

Tags: Private Equity, Healthcare M&A, Benjamin Edmands, CCMP Capital, Jonathan Korngold, General Atlantic, Todd Richter, Bank of America, Nathaniel Zilkha, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, The Deal, Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium

Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium: 12-Month Outlook

Jason Lopez — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:30:25 +0000

In 2007 deals in the health care M&A marketplace soared. Siemens’s $7 billion purchase of Dade Behring, Medtronic’s purchase of Kyphon and Carlyle Group’s purchase of Manor Care are just a few of the deals that contributed to a trend-setting year in the health care sector. In this podcast, an interview with Russell Carson, fresh from speaking on the opening panel of the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium in New York City. Carson is co-founder and general partner with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

Tags: M&A, Dade Behring, Medtronic, Carlyle Group, Manor Care, Russell Carson, Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

What’s Inside SxSW Interactive?

Paul Lancour — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:17:23 +0000

In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what’s inside people’s computers, and just how much they’re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival — creativity.

Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to blog from the conference using a MID. He used the mobile Internet device to bring his blog readers along with him to breakfast, and to snap a picture of two of Intel’s tiniest products - the Atom processor and the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo.

We showed those tiny products to attendees at SxSWi, and found out how some creative folks are interacting with their computers (and what’s inside).

Related Stories:
IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility

Tags: SxSW Interactive, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility, video podcast, Austin, SXSWi, South by Southwest, SXSW, Intel, Interactive, ultramobile, Atom, Bryan Rhoads, MIDs, mobile Internet device, Core 2 Duo, processor

IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

Jason Lopez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:23 +0000

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April.

It’s no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world “will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged.”

It’s against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year’s IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: new processor, ultra-mobile, Intel, mobility computing, UMPC, mobile Internet devices, notebooks, desktops, netbooks, net-tops, Atom, 45nm technology, Penryn, Core 2 Duo, IDF, National Science Board, James Popkin, Partha Iyengar, I.T. and the East, Intel Developer Forum

The Reboot: Capcom Digital Day

Rio Pesino — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:09 +0000

Downloadable games were the focus of Capcom’s Digital Day. During the press-only event, Capcom did not talk about Street Fighter IV or Resident Evil 5. Instead, the game developer showed off an updated version of and several other games that will soon be available on Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives you a preview of HD Remix and other gaming news for the week, including Super Smash Bros. Brawl Disc Issues, another Xbox 360 price drop and the results of a survey that says gaming is more popular than sex. In fact, in honor of that last item, we’ve put together a little treat for viewers, featuring some interesting moments from Dead or Alive, Rumble Roses, Ms. Pac Man and Dixie Kong….

This video is available on:
YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Crackle, Sclipo, and Bittorrent

Tags: downloadable games, Capcom, Digital Day, Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, The Reboot, Rio Pesino, Super Smash Bros. Brawl Disc Issues, Xbox 360, Dead or Alive, Rumble Roses, Ms. Pac Man, Dixie Kong

The Reboot: GDC 2008 Highlights

Rio Pesino — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:01:48 +0000

A record 18,000 people attended this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. The five-day event featured 400 sessions, the GDC career pavilion, keynotes by Microsoft’s John Schappert and Ray Kurzweil and other GDC-related events including an evening with Will Wright and Video Games Live. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his take on some of the highlights of this year’s event, including Logitech’s new GT5 Prologue racing wheel, Dark Sector and Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds.

Tags: Dark Sector, Game Developers Conference, Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds, John Schappert, Logitech, Ray Kurzweil, Rio Pesino, The Reboot, Video Games Live, Will Wright