Posted May 8th 20130
The fifth part of our Re-imagining Apps for Ultrabook™ video series is now available. In it, I’ll provide an overview of device motion and walk through a few ways we can take advantage of this set of capabilities in the desktop apps ...
Posted May 8th 20130
Haptic technology revolves around creating a new kind of user interface that better connects our sense of touch with the form factors we use every day: smartphones, tablets, computers, etc. We get a brief glimpse of the possibilities that haptic technology offers when our phone vibrates in our ...
Posted May 8th 20131
There’s nothing like a bit of friendly competition to spark developers to new heights of innovation. Beginning on May 6, coders all over the world will have the chance to forge new ground by integrating voice control, gesture control, facial recognition, and augmented reality within PC apps in ...
Posted May 8th 20130
We all heard about responsive web design. The idea behind it is simple: The layout of your page adapts to the screen size. That is, on a large screen you might want to show your content with a navigation bar to the left and some advertisement to the right. When the screen and or browser window is ...
Posted May 7th 20133
I am very happy to announce that Meshcentral.com now supports Intel AMT power actions directly from the web site. So, if you happen to be managing Intel AMT computers with Meshcentral.com, ...
Posted May 6th 20130
According to a report released by NPD Display Search, the mobile PC market is on track to more than double by 2017, increasing from 367.6 million units ...
Posted May 3rd 20131
It is truly amazing what developers all over the world are managing to come up with in the field of perceptual computing. Perceptual computing is something that Intel® is putting a lot of time, energy, and resources into, as seen in the recently finished ...
Posted May 3rd 20135
Posted May 2nd 20135
Contra Costa College Intel Code for Good Virtual Hackathon 2013
We are approaching another wonderful hackathon in 3 weeks. This one is named the "Virtual Hackathon". It is virtual in the sense that we will not all be in 1 building, but in separate houses working on different things. We will ...
Posted May 2nd 20132
In a recent interview with at the Milken Institute Conference, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins gave his opinion of where tablets might be going in the next five years, sparking a virtual firestorm of heated discussions all over the Web:
“In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a ...
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Posted March 12th 20122
After more than a decade of reviewing thousands of business software websites, I still come across too many that are missing the single most critical element to their success. In fact, I daresay the vast majority of software websites continue ...
Posted March 12th 20121
Posted March 12th 20120
It is with the utmost pleasure, I'd like to call your attention to the Dr. David Valentine's "Making Parallleism Nifty" video series. Dr. Valentine said at SIGCSE 2011 in Dallas that "good instructional ...
Posted March 12th 20124
Given the constant competitive pressure on executives to expedite product time-to-market, many developers are given tight deadlines to deliver functional software. This software is often geared for localization once the source language version ...
Posted March 9th 20120
Quick note to point out that I added a few days ago the last modified date and time of files and directories in the web based remote file browser in Meshcentral.com. Some have been asking for ...
Posted March 8th 20120
Posted March 7th 20120
This series of blogs describes considerations for Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors to expand their sales and channels outside their home countries. It discusses SaaS developed for businesses with more than 5 people, which is distinct from ...
Posted March 6th 20120
One of the great features of the latest Intel® vPro™ technology-based clients is that it supports the encryption of communications that an IT manager would have between the management console and the vPro client. In order to enable this capability, a developer needs to work with a feature of vPro ...
Posted March 6th 20120
I am keeping up the bug fixing and development on meshcentral.com, the remote computer monitoring and management web site. Today, I am very glad to announce that I just added RDP support to ...
Posted March 6th 20123
SummaryThis blog is a collection of hands-on notes on building Android ICS 4 virtualbox installer for x86 from official Google x86 virtualbox target vbox-x86-eng (included in ICS 4.0 source) and using a Linux 2.6 kernel provided by Intel to add specific feature for virtualbox and how to use ...
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Posted December 9th 200942
Building .NET applications for the App Store is not currently supported. If you are like me, building user interfaces with .NET is quick and easy and so, it would be nice to submit .NET applications. I did manage to submit an application that was built in .NET and also supports the Atom SDK, still ...
Posted February 12th 200841
Posted January 5th 200938
It is most likely true that there aren't many of us who have access to a machine with 256 cores at the moment and unfortunately neither do I. I received the following screen shot of the Windows task manager showing 256 cores running on Windows Server 2008 R2 which uses the same kernel as Windows 7 ...
Posted April 21st 200838
We hope the Intel Software Conference - Go Parallel has been useful to you and will aid you in your pursuit to "think parallel".
Share your experiences and feedback with us. Blog and tell us what you think.
Be it your opinion on the need for threading applications, or the benefits of parallel ...
Posted April 28th 200838
I won't say my last post here was harsh-- it was heartfelt and survives a reread without me flinching-- but I wanted to be fair and illustrate why I think it's a big issue. What competitive advantage are we squandering / have we squandered here with HDCP issues over HDMI?I won't go too deep into ...
Posted October 22nd 200837
Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it!This teasing diktat points out an important truth – All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs have moved to a many core design, yet universities and colleges are not training engineers in the parallel and concurrent disciplines needed to ...
Posted September 27th 200837
I recently purchased my first Netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 1000H with a 10-inch Display, 1.6 GHz Intel ATOM Processor and 1 GB RAM. This little machine ROCKS! I use the Netbook as my secondary computer, making it easier for me during my travels. I would recommend Netbooks to anyone looking for a ...
Posted July 1st 200834
About two years ago, ISN (Intel Software Network) made a strategic shift to become more transparent and shift control to you (user). At that time it was a BIG change for Intel (& I argue that it still is).Imagine Intel engineers having their own blogs!!
Imagine letting you have direct ...
Posted February 26th 200833
Posted May 14th 201032
People keep asking how to traverse tbb::concurrent_hash_map concurrently with other operations. But it wouldn’t be worth the blog if there was not any problem. The Reference clearly states that:Concurrent operations (count, find, insert, and erase) invalidate any existing iterators that point into ...
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