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Jeff Kataoka (Intel)

Jeff Kataoka is a marketing program manager for the Intel® Software Partner Program. Jeff joined Intel in 1996, starting in Intel’s Mobile Products Group as a channel marketing manager for notebook PCs. Jeff has held a variety of product management and marketing positions at Intel, several major computer reseller companies and other PC industry companies since the 1980’s. He helped open a franchise chain of PC retail stores and PC repair centers in his earlier days. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley when it was still known as a place of radicals and there are long-hair photos to prove it. He enjoys investigating new concepts or ideas and is especially interested in new technology and new marketing techniques. Jeff likes golf, but is a terrible golfer. He always maintains that he will improve next year.

Turning a serial application into a parallel application

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on October 28, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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As multi-core processing has become more mainstream, a challenge has been posed to software companies with existing or legacy applications that have not been updated for parallel processing with multi-core systems. How do I update my current application product line for multi-core processing? Where do I start? What are the best practices? [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Parallel Programming

Backing Up Data at Lightning Speed

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on October 21, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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Backing up your data is more important than ever and a speedy process can get you back to work quickly. Software companies are focusing on developing back-up solutions with speed and ease. Advice and resources from Intel helped the Brazilian company, Virtos Backups deliver greater speed, increasing its product’s value. Discover how Virtos used Intel® [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

My work made a difference!

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 26, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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The new iPhone sold a million units over its first weekend.  Facebook is so popular that it is now being used by businesses and adults, not just college students. Recently, Twitter has been one of the only methods of communication for getting out the news in certain world hot spots.  When I hear these things, I [...]

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Category: Academic, Financial Services Industry, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Parallel Programming

Consumer On-line Technical Service - would you sign-up for such a service?

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 24, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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Whenever I have a problem with my home personal computer, I always wish I could just call an on-line technical service person, just like I can do at the office. Using a network management software application, they can look at my system remotely and help solve my problem. If I provide permission, they can take [...]

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Category: Academic, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Parallel Programming

Which technology is making things happen in your life?

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 22, 2009 at 9:53 am
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I have read or seen recent reports of events happening in the world and I'm told that technology such as Twitter, Facebook or mobile phone videos are a big part of what is happening. So, tell me the one technology that you feel is making things happening in your life.

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Category: Academic, Cool Software, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Threading Building Blocks, Visual Computing, What If Software

Part 2 - Birds do it. Movie Stars do it. Cable News Broadcasters do it. But do Software Developers do it? Twitter.

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 16, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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Thanks to those that provided their input on how Software Developers are using Twitter. Interesting enough, Time magazine did a major article on Twitter in their June 15th edition. One of the major premises put forward in this article is that Twitter is changing the rules of engagement. The author discusses various [...]

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Category: Cool Software, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Open Source, Parallel Programming, Software Engineering

Birds do it. Movie Stars do it. Cable News Broadcasters do it. But do Software Developers do it? Twitter.

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 1, 2009 at 11:11 am
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Twitter and tweets. It seems to be all the rage. Whether you are a famous movie star, a talk show host, government official or a cable news network, they all seem to be using Twitter. There has been a recent explosion of Twitter and Tweets. My big question is: Are Software Developers using Twitter and [...]

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Category: Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Uncategorized

Accelerate! - Highlighting Development Resources and Opportunity to Win a Marketing Campaign

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on March 27, 2009 at 11:29 am
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In these competitive and challenging times, accelerating your software development to get to market sooner can be key to success.  The Intel® Software Partner Program launched our Accelerate! campaign to highlight valuable development tools and resources to help our members to complete their software development and successfully go to market.  In addition, we are offering [...]

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Category: Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks, Virtualization, Visual Computing

Your Dream Spokesperson for your Software

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on March 9, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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As I was watching televsion one night, I notice how many commercials had famous stars as spokespeople for their products or an impressive famous voice providing the testimonials for the television advertisement.  It made me wonder, if I could have a dream wish to select any person, famous or non-famous, in the world to be [...]

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Category: Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Parallel Programming

New Technology Solution vs The Economy - Part 2

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on January 27, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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So with many technology companies reporting poor quarterly financial numbers in the last month, one major technology service company report positive numbers.  Their business did well because many companies decided to purchase technology services from an outside source rather than doing it themselves.  They do this in order to save costs in this economy, but [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source, Parallel Programming, Virtualization

New Technology Solutions vs. The Economy - Part 1

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on January 16, 2009 at 11:51 am
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You would have to be on another planet or living on a deserted island to have not heard that we are in the midst of a global economic crisis.  Stock market is dropping, companies are going bankrupt, people are losing their jobs and governments are trying to save thier local economies.  What a major financial [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Software Engineering, Uncategorized

Mobile Internet Device vs. Smart Phone - Mobile Device of Choice for 2010

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on December 2, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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Intel's new Atom™ processor is helping launch a new catagory of small mobile devices know as "Mobile Internet Devices".  Mobile Internet Devices are smaller than a laptop or even a Netbook, but larger than a PDA or cell phone.  As their name implies, these devices provide Internet on the go, as well as, other functions [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility

Meeting Software Companies at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on October 27, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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Well, here I am at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.  I'm meeting a lot of software companies and corporate IT software developers.  Two interesting facts that I realized in my conversations today: 1) I've met several people who work for companies that are offering some form of Software as a Service (SaaS) [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming

Meet our team at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference and tell us about your software development effort

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on September 29, 2008 at 11:29 am
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The Intel Software Partner Program team will be in the Intel booth at the Intel the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles from October 27 - 29, 2008. We would like to invite any of our Partner Program members and any software companies to come and talk with us in the Intel booth [...]

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Category: Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Parallel Programming, Virtualization, Visual Computing

Some Suggestions for Multi-core Programming Focused Webinars

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on August 26, 2008 at 10:10 am
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I'm still exploring subjects for Multi-core programming focused webinars for members of the Intel Software Partner Program.  Some suggestions that I have received are: - Tips and Tricks for Threading for Multi-core processors - Popular Multi-core Programming Tools on the Intel Software Network - Intel Software Development Tool Products - Threading Methodology If you are interested in any of these [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Parallel Programming

Webinar topics for optimizing your software for Multi-core

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on August 5, 2008 at 11:42 am
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In the Intel Software Partner Program, one of our objectives is to provide our members with pertinent development and programming information for optimizing your application for multi-core processing.  We do that by providing a variety of tools, resources and on-line forums.  Another method is by conducting an on-line seminar or webinar.  We usually have one [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized

Share Your Success - Your Software Product and the Intel® Software Partner Program

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on June 24, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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As a way to promote the Intel Software Partner Program and our program members, we like to write success stories about how our program members used the benefits and resources of the program to successfully development innovative software for their regional market segment. When I hear of an interesting member success story, I usually hire [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program

Remodeled Website Launches for the Intel® Software Partner Program

By Jeff Kataoka (Intel) (18 posts) on May 19, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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On May 20, 2008, the Intel® Software Partner Program will launch a remodeled website.  Based on member feedback, we decided late last year to make major changes to our program website and to many of the key program processes that our members use to engage in the Software Partner Program to develop or optimize new [...]

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Category: Intel SW Partner Program