marypcbuk | Entries tagged with intel

Ср, 08:19: RT @ntouk: I keep hearing David Brent's voice in my head .... "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part"
Ср, 08:21: According to Netbiscuits mobile ad platform, Windows Phone share minor at global level, already ranks 4th in N America http://t.co/vRZwcVcC
Ср, 18:44: If I had a million dollars, what would I give a keynote at Oracle World on? Suggestions on a dollar bill please...
Ср, 19:54: Silhouette, contrast, stillness key to graphic storytelling; Pixar is the church of storytelling, it's our religion #adobemax
Ср, 23:42: RT @sbisson: A solution to the Oracle/Google Android impasse: Google pays $2.7B for the keynote at Javaworld 2012. Everyone wins!
Ср, 23:43: roadtrip! with this rain, thankfully just to Santa Monica for the night where we're trying out the Lazy Daisy cafe; awesome pancakes
Чт, 00:03: For once I seem to agree with Ellison; been saying 4 years easy to get yr data out of Salesforce but good luck getting yr business model out
Чт, 00:05: apropos of nothing; the Internet high five page is just a good mood away from 'talk to the hand'
Чт, 00:37: Can Intel save PCs from crapware? http://t.co/Iq4bMX1a #zdnetuk
Чт, 04:01: Watching the musicians set up for Iris. I love cirque du soleil; there's a girl with a zoetrope skirt showing boxers http://t.co/imCShhyX

Why Intel wants to create platforms and services, not just chips - and how it's depending on Genevieve Bell's Interaction and Experience Research Lab to make them right, using the lessons of electric fairies and princess phones...

I rarely get the headlines I write into print (it's a specialist skill) and I might quibble with the quote used as the actual headline; I wanted my Rolling Stones reference! I've been watching Genevieve Bell slip more and more of an anthropological, user-centric view into Intel for at least seven years; it was great to see her get more of a presence at IDF this year.

Third-party tools finally take advantage of Intel’s chip-level security and management options

Embedded features that Intel has been offering in vPro for several years are getting more useful as more software developers offer tools to take advantage of the features in the latest Core vPro models.

10Gbps plus power down a tiny, extra-long cable

USB 3.0, with headline throughput of 5Gbps, has only just hit the market, but it could be obsolete as soon as next year, when Intel's 10Gbps Light Peak optical cables arrive. In time, a whole new protocol will deliver up to 100Gbps, but initially Light Peak will plug into familiar ports to deliver faster transfers over longer cables.
Read my in-depth tech guide on ZDNet UK

I've always said that the main reason Intel develops Moblin is to scare Microsoft; any time Redmond isn't playing ball, Intel holds up Moblin (I can't bring myself to call it MeeGo every time) like a scary hand puppet and waves it around until the 'softies cave in. Perhaps they haven't caved recently (or perhaps my utter speculation about Windows 8 on ARM is near to the bone), but Intel spokesperson James Reinders made some remarkably candid comments about Microsoft and Windows performance on Atom (twice, so it wasn't mis-speaking).

Personally I'm very happy with Windows 7 on Atom (in as much as I'm happy about Atom at all - I like the battery life but tend to hate the tiny keyboards), and I'm grateful that Windows VP Steven Sinosfky went through what must have been the pain of using a netbook as his main PC for months to make sure Windows 7 would make me happy (oh, and all you other Atom users too), but it did remind me that Origami died a death. Of course now that I know that Microsoft worked with Toshiba to create the nice, simple Media Controller interface on the JOURN.E Touch and that they brainstormed the 'three screens plus cloud' mantra together I'm wondering what we might see on the Windows 7 tablets that HP and, I think I can say, Toshiba will bring out this summer.

Reinders also talked about Atom and embedded Atom in a way that made me think that Intel is trying to use Moblin/MeeGo as a scary puppet to wave at Google as well; Intel thinks embedded devices - smartphones, MIDs, what Qualcomm calls SmartBooks even though that's a trademark in Europe,in-car systems and all the other devices that are going Android and Chrome (or maybe RIM or - very successfully for Ford - Windows CE or, of course, iPhone and iPad) - need a better operating system. I'm inclined to agree - though of course I personally think it should be some variation of Windows 8 (I do seem to have a theme this week) rather than Moblin/MeeGo. But what I mostly think is that if Intel is using the same puppet to wave at both Google and Microsoft, then they are certainly wearing what an old friend of ours calls the Brave Trousers.

Given that I've gone from a Windows Mobile fan to something of a Windows Mobile diehard in my phone use (I've been disappointed with the glacial development and short term solutions of the last two Windows Mobile releases even as I've enjoyed new features and the best mobile browser anywhere - Skyfire not Mobile IE, of course), I'm still undecided about how much I like Windows Phone 7. I've been chewing it over at our blog on ZDNet...

...I was writing bad poetry and translating Latin and doing a bit of ecological studies and arguing about German literature. Which makes me very impressed with the projects in the Intel Talent Search. Some of these sound graduate level and far beyond what I've learned of American high school through TV! We need more education systems that promote pure, blue sky research...

The top award, a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation, went to Mary Masterman, 17, who built an accurate spectrograph that identifies the specific characteristics – or “fingerprints” – of different kinds of molecules. Spectrographs have wide applications in research and industry and can cost as much as $100,000. Mary’s invention cost hundreds of dollars.

The rest of the top 10 winners are listed below:
Second Place: John Pardon, 17, of Chapel Hill, N.C., received a $75,000 scholarship for his project that solved a classical open problem in differential geometry. John showed that a finite-length closed curve in the plane can be made convex in a continuous manner, and without bringing any two points of the curve closer together.

Third Place: Dmitry Vaintrob, 18, of Eugene, Ore., received a $50,000 scholarship for his sophisticated investigation of ways to associate algebraic structures to topological spaces. Dmitry proved that loop homology and Hochschild cohomology coincide for an important class of spaces.

Fourth Place: Catherine Schlingheyde, 17, of Oyster Bay, N.Y., received a $25,000 scholarship for her research on microRNA repression, a basic mechanism that regulates cell function.

Fifth Place: Rebecca Kaufman, 17, of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., received a $25,000 scholarship for her study of the effects of male hormones in a model of schizophrenia.

Sixth Place: Gregory Brockman, 18, of Thompson, N.D., received a $25,000 scholarship for his mathematics project that provided a thorough analysis of Ducci sequences, also known as the “four number game.”

Seventh Place: Megan Blewett, 17, of Madison, N.J., received a $20,000 scholarship for her analysis of a protein that may be implicated in multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Eighth Place: Daniel Handlin, 18, of Lincroft, N.J., received a $20,000 scholarship for developing an accurate, low-cost method of determining the position of geo-stationary Earth-orbit (GEO) satellites.

Ninth Place: Meredith MacGregor, 18, of Boulder, Colo., received a $20,000 scholarship for her research on the fluid dynamics of the “Brazil Nut Effect,” in which shaken particles separate by size with the largest on top.

Tenth Place: Emma Call, 18, of Baltimore, Md., received a $20,000 scholarship for the fabrication of 3-D microcubes, which have potential use as novel drug-delivery devices

Current Mood: impressed

Simon and I are now also blogging on the IT Pro site at http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/editorial-blogs/simon-bisson-and-mary-branscombe/. I claim first post with a piece about Las Vegas and the Montecito - which is Intel's new Itanium as well as the home of Ed & Delinda DeLine, Danny, Mike, Mary, Nessa and the ever-amoral Sam. I don't know if Intel has a safe full of silver bars...

Another identity piece on DevReg: Secure identity begins at home (it will have my name as the author soon, honest). This time I'm looking at Intel's ideas for security identity at the PC level, building into the platform - which for Intel means the CPU+chipset+services, like VIIV or vPro rather than PC+OS. I think it's interesting that we're more comfortable with Intel adding secure partitions to the PC than we were with the idea of Microsoft doing it.

I didn't have time to get the URL for this the day it came out, but my piece on UMPCs is still on the free section of FT Digital Business. This is generation zero for this type of device to get people working on the technology for real - if a PDA is too small and a tablet too big, Origami wants to be Goldilocks.

Elijah on your knee
Originally uploaded by marypcb.

I spotted this almost life-size ad in the corner of a session about the digital home at the Intel Developer Forum last week and I thought I'd post it to allow general fangirl squee-ing to go on. If that's what you get with the latest laptops, there should be some interesting plane journeys coming up this year...