Intel’s invitation-only event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., showed off the company’s diverse research projects in areas like visual computing, health, life sciences, green-friendly technologies, and wireless, to name a few. “Intel scientists can propose research on any topic they envision a solution for,” said Manny Vara, Intel’s technology marketing director at Intel’s R&D Labs. “It can start when a scientist comes across a problem, even outside of work, and says, ‘Hey, I could do something about that.’” Intel scientists have engaged in diverse research projects from digital money to mobile antennas that provide access to cell phone services in developing regions of the world. This year’s Research@Intel Day featured more than 70 projects.
Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). MIDs created some genuine buzz at CES 2008 in ...
ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn’t include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the “el’cheapo” ...
When you hit the road and can’t squeeze your 62 inch monitor into your briefcase, you may want to reach for your Vuzix iWear. So if you’re watching a movie on your laptop or iPod or looking to join multiple friends in a first-person shooter game, Vuzix delivers a ...
When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin of
How is human computer interaction different in emerging economies like India? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley discusses some of the projects that he had his colleagues are working in India using mobile phone for real time video and location based services (LBS). John talks at length about ... Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled ... Meet Vishal Maheshwari, head of Yahoo! India mobile, who provides strategic direction to his company’s mobile business in India. India has one of the fastest mobile subscribers in the world. Every month millions of new mobile subscribers are added by various Indian telcos. In this interview Vishal talks about the ... “We want to be on a billion phones,” says Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo’s global mobile products. So, imagine the challenge that Ojas and his team have in order to achieve that goal. You need to have an entrpreneurial bent of mind to do make the internet fit your phone ... How does Yahoo! access the power of the Internet on the mobile phone? They way a user uses Yahoo! on their desktop is vastly different from the way they use it on their mobile phones. Delivering a seamless, oneclick experience on the mobile phone is a key component of what ... How do you make the GSM network relevant to millions of PC users around the world? Simple. Plug in a mobile broadband or High Speed Internet Access (HSPA) chip into the laptop and you are good to surf the internet. What is the target market for these mobile ... Asia has the largest and fastest growing mobile users in the world. Yahoo! mobile has a pretty significant presence in Asia. David Ko, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Connected Life Asia talks about Yahoo’s strategy and plans in the Asian market. David is responsible for the deployment ... Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks. Cell phones are bringing a new kind of video to the world. You’ve seen them being filmed in museums or concerts: little videos done with cell phones. Zannel is working to make it easier to get those videos up to your friends. Here Adam Zbar, CEO, and Braxton Woodham, ... Do you think Google is the best search engine for cell phones? Think again with Taptu’s Bob Last. He’s senior vice president of business development there and talks with me about search engines and how mobile phones aren’t well served by the major search engines from Yahoo, Google, or ... We do a little test comparing Google to Taptu on a mobile phone. You might be surprised by how much nicer Taptu is for many searches. Here Bob Lastt, senior vice president at Taptu, and I have a race and Bob shows off some of the cool features of ... Jeff Holden, co-founder and CEO of Pelago which released WHRRL last week. He discusses how you’d use whrrl from a mobile phone to find restaurants and other things. This is a cool service with a weird name: Utterz. At the CTIA show (mobile phone gadget show) I met Randy Corke, co-founder of the company making Utterz and we have a brief talk about it. It’s a microblogging tool that lets you call audio in from your cell ... Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ... One of the most unique social networks I’ve seen lately is the one from BluePulse. It’s for mobile phones only and is gaining a lot of fans. Last week I headed over to see what Ben Keighran, founder and CEO is up to and get a look at the ... Are you building an Internet service and need to know how it’ll look on computers or mobile phones around the world? What the response times will be? How to make it better? Then you’ll need Keynote Systems. Here, Manny Gonzalez, Sr., director of mobile technologies, talks to me about ... Migg33 is a mobile social networking company and a phone software developer. The comapny has found a way to enhance regular phones with extra smart features including ways to use VOIP for cheap international calls as co-founder Steven Goh explains to Larry Magid. As more and more cellphones become Web enabled, Anurag Nigam and Manish Lachwani, co-founders of InSync Inc., believe there is a growing need for an Internet portal for mobile devices. Their San Francisco-based, self-funded startup, 411Synch enables anyone to access their favorites on the Web with one touch, keyword strokes. ... The digital divide issue is being addressed in some pretty innovative ways by startups in India. In this video clip you will meet Babaji, who works as a security guard for Read-Inc Technologies. He has access to a laptop and has learnt how to use Microsoft applications like Excel, and ...Human Computer Interaction In Emerging Economies Part-2
Prof Tapan Parikh: Innovator and Social Entrepreneur
Vishal Maheshwari of Yahoo! India Mobile
Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo! Global Mobile Products Part-2
Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo! Global Mobile Products Part-1
Microsoft's Ken Pawlak on Mobile Broadband Laptops
David Ko: Yahoo's Mobile Strategy In Asia
Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip
Zannel brings your mobile video to life
The best mobile search engine?
Demo of how Taptu is way better than Google for mobiles
Whrrl brings social networking to local discovery
Utterz brings voice video to microblogging service
ICT Access for Africa: Intel, UN and ITU Efforts to Globalize Broadband
BluePulse has a new take on social networking: mobile only!
Testing Mobile services on the Internet with Keynote Systems
Turning dumb phones into smart phones
A Thin Internet Portal for Mobile Devices
Digital Divide in India
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