An Intel Core 2 microprocessor, 1.66GHz and 2MB integrated L2 cache and 80GB memory promises to deliver performance. However, it cannot match a desktop with core duo processors.
You bet they have. One "kid" suggested no caps lock key and we took his advice. Collaboration and open source are at the root of everything we do.
Have you seen this work?
We have seen it work all over the place: Cambodia, Costa Rica, Brazil -- just to name a few. In one school, 100 percent more kids showed up for the first grade in the next year. They were not coming from the neighbouring village. No. What happened is that the six-year-olds in school told those who were not attending that school is cool.
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Calcutta, Dec. 16: Intel Corporation is interested in a local partner for its foray into WiMAX in India.
On his visit to the country last year, Craig Barrett, chairman of Santa Clara-based Intel, highlighted the WiMAX technology’s ability to connect remote areas and bridge the digital divide.
Intel has started a pilot WiMAX project in Baramati, near Pune. The company wanted to do trial runs in many cities and was also in talks with the Bengal
Most people hit the caps lock key by accident. It is particularly likely since it is close to the alphabet 'a' (often used in English and Latin languages) and just above the 'shift' key, which itself can be used in making uppercase.
I am willing to bet that 99 per cent of the world's users spend time deleting uppercase letters that have inadvertently appeared because they accidentally hit 'caps lock'.
Why the insistence on open source?
Because sharing and collaboration are very important pieces of education. We think that computer programming itself is an important part of "learning (about) learning." Our keyboard even has a "view source" key that you can hit to see the source code of what you are running.
So why not concentrate on the laptop business, instead, which is growing at over 60 per cent?
Lenovo is number two (HP leads and Acer is No.3) in the Indian laptop segment, according to IDC.
The company is doing well with laptops. It got around 60 per cent of its total revenues from notebooks in FY08.
El mercado de los Ultra Mobile PCs no acaba de despegar, seguramente por el elevado precio de estos atractivos dispositivos. Pero la cosa podría cambiar: Intel acaba de aprovechar su IDF en Beijing para anunciar que sus futuros UMPCs utilizarán Linux.
Los llamados MID (Mobile Internet Device) tendrán pantallas de entre 4,5 y 6 pulgadas y estarán destinadas a todo tipo de usuarios, según la noticia de ZDNet.
La primera plataforma que aparecerá, MID2007, tiene como nombre en clave McCaslin está siendo desarrollada y afinada para su cristalización el año que viene.
Intel Corp, the world's No 1 chipmaker, said on Thursday it could invest up to $200 million in India to ramp up its software design centre and more than triple the number of engineers to 3,000 in a few years.
Intel's three-year-old development centre in Bangalore designs and develops software to power chips that drive personal computers and high-end network computers for Internet-based applications
World's top 10 patent leaders
January 24, 2009
Panasonic Corp
Panasonic's vision is to build products 'in harmony with the environment'.
In January, the company won patents for a method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit, Loudspeaker edge, Data library device, fuel cell etc.
Panasonic makes products that can be easily used by people with disabilities also
This made-in-India project, code-named Dunnington, was launched after another much-touted India-specific project - Whitefield - was aborted mid-way by Intel in 2005, citing 'business reasons'.
Praveen Vishakantaiah, a Bangalore-boy and the first one from Bangalore to head Intel India's operations led this project from the front.
Prior to this, he was the director of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group and has been part of the microprocessor design team
Another innovator FlatWire Technologies is also eyeing India.
"We see India as a target for our products, especially for wires needed in audio-video data transfer," FlatWire President Robert
In the IT industry, innovation takes several forms -- technology (hardware, software, business model, process), etc. While I think we have made significant strides on certain areas such as technology software and services, we are barely making inroads in some of the other areas.
Innovation is one of the cornerstones for any company's success and it is extremely important to bring value addition for whatever it is that you are doing. Without innovative methods, products you are more likely to just play in.
"At that point, I really felt that here is an opportunity to work in India and put the country on the global silicon design map. This gave me the leadership opportunity to drive a project forward."
Even as the Dunnington team is now transitioning to the 'next big project', Vishakantaiah is also riding the learning curve.
A hardcore engineer, who metamorphosed into a leader, he is now mastering the art of engaging external systems such as the industry, government and academia,