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How Blizzard saved approximately $44 million on Diablo 3

By Matt Ployhar (Intel) (46 posts) on May 25, 2012 at 2:49 pm
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So I’ll caveat this up front by saying that there might be a little voodoo math going on here; however, be that as it may it’s still good food for thought. In short: Diablo 3, as of today (5/25/2012) has now hit 6.3 million in sales. Quite impressive! Huge congratulations going out to all my [...]

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Category: Academic, Android, Events, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Ultrabook, Uncategorized
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Topics...

By Bruce Beare (Intel) (2 posts) on May 25, 2012 at 12:51 pm
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There's a number of topics that I'll be blogging on... as well as many that I won't. This isn't going to be a tech support blog (there are other mechanisms for that), but I'll always be glad to help where I can. Please don't ask for information about unreleased products or how to root your [...]

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A little about me...

By Bruce Beare (Intel) (2 posts) on May 25, 2012 at 12:42 pm
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Here's a little about me. I'll update this from time to time. --- I've been a Unix/Linux developer for my entire career (since 1980). I've touched on many area in these years; most of them related to various operating system kernels and other systems programming tasks rather than applications programming. I tend to gravitate towards [...]

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Android Multi-threads Programming for Intel IA

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on May 17, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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See original blog post: Android 多线程编程 on Intel China ISN Android application development can be supported with multi-threaded programming, which provide convenience for developers to fully utilize the system resource and provide means of designing complicated UI and time consuming operation. It also enhances the user experience of Android users. Multi-threads for Android has no too [...]

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Category: Android, Uncategorized

Eight Popular Open Source Android Game Engines

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on May 14, 2012 at 10:31 pm
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This is an translation of a very popular Chinese Blog wrote by iamsheldon on Chinese Intel Software Network. For beginning  Android game developers, it is very common that they get lost  frequently and do not know where to  start and get their hands wet. Especially when they get problems that they can not resolve by themself, [...]

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Category: Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Open Source, Uncategorized

Intel Announces New Software and Services Investments in Brazil

By Lauren Dankiewicz (Intel) (23 posts) on May 14, 2012 at 8:40 pm
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IDF Brazil 2012 Software and Services



Intel is accelerating the growth of Brazil’s software industry by making strategic investments in independent software vendors, developers, universities, technology parks, and government IT agencies. Today at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Brazil, Intel announced that the Intel® Software Partner Program and four Intel® Software Network developer communities are launching in Portuguese. The Intel Software Network provides hundreds of technical documents and guidance on how to maximize software performance on Intel® architecture. The Intel® Software Partner Program helps companies develop and market commercial applications optimized for Intel® technologies.

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Category: Android, Events, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Server
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Intel Software at AnDevCon

By Hernan Alijo (Intel) (2 posts) on May 4, 2012 at 2:05 pm
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Thanks for attending our booth and keynotes. It was great meeting you! Developers from all around the world visited our demos and learned about Android on the Intel Architecture. We had the chance of answering all kinds of questions about the Intel Developer Community for Android and of showing the valuable resources available on this [...]

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Meet Intel Software at AnDevCon III

By Hernan Alijo (Intel) (2 posts) on May 2, 2012 at 1:30 pm
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Join us at the Android Developer Conference located in the Hyatt Regency Burlingame, CA, May 14–17, 2012. We have many interesting things planned for this third AnDevCon. We think that you will be amazed with the apps, tools, community and capabilities available for Android devices running on the Intel Atom processor. Get prepared for a [...]

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First Commercial Intel Smartphone Lava XOLO X900 Launched Today

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on April 19, 2012 at 3:02 pm
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Today, the first Intel Smart phone XOLO X900 smartphone was launched in India  http://www.xolo.in/ Information Week Report http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/its-official-intel-silicon-to-finally-appear-in-a-shipping-smartphone-in-india/ According the official XOLO website: "Superior Intel technology and Lava’s innovation come together to bring you the new XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel Inside®. Experience fast web browsing with the 1.6 GHz Intel processor. Based on [...]

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Category: Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized

Google Releases Comparision Video for Android Emulator that Support X86

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on April 12, 2012 at 2:32 pm
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Google engineers this week released a video which provided a good demo of the performance improvement on the new Android emulator which comes with new Android SDK R17. The emulator is enhanced by hardware virtualization, and has  access to the host CPU natively and offer significantly faster execution. This video shows a CPU-bound application on two emulators running the [...]

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Category: Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized

Developers see multi store monetization models for Ultrabook and mobile

By Bob Duffy (Intel) (128 posts) on April 11, 2012 at 9:33 am
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While in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress I was fortunate to attend the WIPJam conference and participate in a round table discussion on app monetization. The discussion was lively, with nearly a dozen developers tossing out their ideas, perspectives and experiences. While I learned a lot, I was unsure if the experiences would hold true [...]

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Near Field Communication on Android* Tablets and Hand-held Devices - An Introduction

By Nathan Totura (Intel) (2 posts) on March 30, 2012 at 3:33 pm
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Background Near Field Communication (NFC) is a set of communication standards which allow peer-to-peer data exchanges between two closely held end points. Normally the distance between the devices is required to be less than 4cm. NFC originated on RFID systems, and gradually developed into a standard communication protocol on smart phones and tablets. Intel® AtomTM [...]

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Battery Life on Android: What Can You Do?

By David Medawar (Intel) (1 posts) on March 30, 2012 at 3:09 pm
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Note: this blog provides information based on my technical experience with extending battery life on Android. I have performed these steps on my spare time using my personal phone and have seen positive results! Battery life. It’s important, right? If you like Android and want to improve your battery life, then you have come to [...]

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Lenovo Received China Network Entry License for the First Intel Phone K800 , Launches An Android App Store For The Enterprise

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on March 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm
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Lenovo Intel Phone Received China Mobile Network Entrance License Lenovo K800, the first smart phone  with Intel Medfield platform, drawed  a wide range of media attention in CES2012. According China Tech Portal http://mobile.it168.com/a2012/0327/1330/000001330178.shtml , this week,  Lenovo has cleared all the obstacles and received China Mobile Network Entrance License for K800 from China National Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center,  Ministry of [...]

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Category: Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Mobility, Uncategorized

What Android SDK R17 and Intel HAXM mean for Android Developer and Programmer?

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (34 posts) on March 23, 2012 at 11:27 am
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The answer is " Android Emulator Faster, More Capable ". Mike James wrote an article title: "Android Emulator Faster, More Capable " on http://www.i-programmer.info. It is good read. Mike wrote " Support for x86 should get better as the facilities settle down from experimental to production. If you do install the x86 emulator then the [...]

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Category: Android, Intel SW Partner Program