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

In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on a dedicated Intel ISEF ...

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next ...

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 ...

Understanding is Only Human: Discover how the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Human Factors team is helping to deliver a superior user experience

Alcatel-Lucent is committed to helping operators deliver a superior user experience. One of the ways to help is to gain an intimate understanding of end-user behavior and the Bell Labs Human Factors team is one of the many groups within Alcatel-Lucent doing just that. The team is made up of Ph.D.s with an average of 15+ years professional usability experience working to:

What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of ...

In a big company like Intel, users get their software in a variety of ways - on their desktops, delivered over a network, or some combination of those. Catherine Spence, an enterprise architect with Intel IT Research and Technology Development, studies alternate and emerging compute models for enterprise operations. ...

With Intel vPro Technology, the enterprise has a measurable way to improve IT efficiency and cut costs significantly. Enterprises that deploy Intel vPro technology-based PCs as part of a comprehensive PC refresh program can expect to reduce hardware complexity and the expenditures associated with that complexity. Wipro conducted a survey ...

Join BearingPoint technologist and senior manager Andy Szuberla as he explores the evolution of disaster recovery plans and how different they are from 15 years ago. Now more then ever, disaster recovery (DR) is about organizational survival and not just technology recovery, but rather, the full recovery of business ...

Users are looking for a richer, more cinematic experience from the Internet, according to Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer and director, Corporate Technology Group. Rattner gave the final keynote of the Fall IDF in San Francisco, focusing on virtual worlds, which are evolving into what he referred to as ...

US data centers consumed 61 billion kW hours of electricity in 2006 - learn how Intel and the industry are applying technology and research to mitigate energy consumption.

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In technology development, most researcher “to-do lists” do not have an item that says something like: “invent society-changing technology.” Mostly, to-do lists contain step-by-step improvements. But we are reminded that the step-by-step can be as important as any monumental leap. Intel says its latest chip release, code-named “Weybridge,” reduces costs, ...

I love this interview with Scott Elrod, manager of the hardware systems group at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, for short). PARC, under the creative and enthusiastic leadership of Elrod, has ventured into the clean technology area. Recently, PARC worked together with the start-up SolFocus on the development ...

Tools are tools, whether you’re using a bow and arrow, a GPS unit, or a search engine. Google is bringing together all the technology tools at hand to help non-profit organizations tell their stories in the vivid, 3-D language of Google Earth. In this video podcast, Catherine Girardeau takes ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

Tony Perkins (Founder, AlwaysOn) introduces George Gilder and Dan Farber (Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet). Dan Farber moderates the discussion group of Andrew Keen (author, Cult of the Amateur), Bill Cleary (Founder, Cleary & Partners), Barbara Waugh (Director, University Relations, HP), and George Gilder (Chairman, Gilder ...

You’ve heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn’t want the operating system business at first, for instance? Did ...

KB Chandrasekhar helped set up a research centre in 1999 at the Madras Institute of Technology Campus of the Anna University. He infuses $1 million every year into the research centre. It underlined his strong belief in research as a passage to entrepreneurship.

The vision of the centre is ...

At Intel’s recent Research Day, we bumped into 20,000 pigs bumping into each other — part of a demonstration into the future of parallel software for multi-core chips. Tera-scale chip technology could revolutionize the PC experience by allowing computers to do many jobs extremely well, from gaming to data crunching ...

Kimberly D.C. Trapp is Industry Liaison Officer of Lehigh University’s Center of Optical Technologies with a charter to advance research and applications of optical and optoelectronic technologies. With close to 25 years of experience with Agere Systems, AT&T Bell Labs and Lucent, Trapp’s watched the early and explosive ...

Here’s a follow-up to my story on Symantec Corp.’s problems in China. It looks at how the U.S. IT industry is handing over sensitive technologies to the oppressive Chinese regime in return for access to the Chinese market. It also looks at China’s growing economic espionage program targeting U.S. corporate ...