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Intel and Nokia Kiss, Plan to Make Super-Smartphone Babies

Intel and Nokia just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used ...READ»

Was Einstein a Designer? Relatively, No.

In his recent post, "Design is Too Important to be Left to Thinkers," Robert Brunner made a good point about how every Tom, Dick, corporate strategist, and engineer is now calling himself a "design thinker." ...READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

This Week's Top Tech News: Elimination Edition

Put an end to blindness, bullshit, copyright laws and Time Warner's dark hegemony? Sure: the top tech stories of the week are all about the death of things that Web nerds hate--and that includes Bing, whether you like the idyllic backgrounds or not. READ»

What's IBM's $100 Million Cell Phone Investment For?

IBM's just announced that it's pulled together $100 million to invest in future cell phone tech. It will be used to improve things like cell-phone security, user interface functionality, and business use of cell phones. But, when ...READ»

You want me to do WHAT? Go Ahead – Injure Yourself.

Last week I introduced a compelling new web site – bigthink.com. Its founders, Peter Hopkins and Victoria Brown, didn’t have enough initial funding to take competitors head on, so they had to find different approaches ...READ»

Meet the Smartbook: For Everything Your Smartphone and Netbook Can't Do

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of mobile computing: The Smartbook. In the same way that a netbook filled a previously unknown need by being something between a laptop and a smartphone, a Smartbook device is halfway ...READ»

Intel Buys Wind River, Wants More Intel Inside Your Mobile Devices

Intel, obviously not hurting too much from a recent $1.5 billion anti-trust fine, has just spent $884 million purchasing Wind River, which makes embedded systems software. Why would it do that? Because Intel wants it's "Intel ...READ»

5 Ways Big Business Weathers the Economic Storm

Cisco, Corning, IBM, Intel, and Schwab have weathered worse economic storms. Here are five strategies they're using to come out of this one even stronger.READ»

• Corning's Rings of Defense: A Survival Strategy That Grew Out of the Telecom Crash
• How Big Blue Is Pursuing Its Share of $101 Billion in Tech Stimulus Spending
• Schwab's Pep Talk: Using Community to Reassure Jittery Consumers
• Cisco's Web Engine: A Growth Machine

Can Intel's New Atom Chips Liven Up Netbooks?

We may have proclaimed the netbook a phenomenon that was over and done, but Intel has just revealed its next-gen Pine Trail chips, and it looks like they might inject some new interest into the mini portable computers. With ...READ»

Cisco Wants to Dominate Smart-Grid Communications

sma Cisco Systems announced its plan to assist with Miami's massive smart-grid project weeks ago, but the Internet networking company officially stated its intentions to dominate the smart grid yesterday. Broadly speaking, ...READ»

Intel's Woes Worsen: U.S. May Follow E.U. in Antitrust Rulings

Intel's just landed itself a financial penalty of nearly one and a half billion dollars in an E.U. antitrust ruling, but now there are suggestions that the company's problems may be just starting--U.S. lawmakers could follow with ...READ»

E.U. Slaps Intel With Record $1.45 Billion Antitrust Fine [Updated]

Intel has been found guilty of anti-competitive behavior by European lawmakers, as rumors earlier this week suggested. The size of the fine--$1.45 billion--is the most astonishing among the punishments meted out to the chip-maker ...READ»

Microsoft and Intel Fight E.U. Lawsuits Just as Antitrust Policies in the U.S. Get Tougher

The European Union's taking a strict line on anti-competitive behavior by two giants of the computing industry: Intel and Microsoft. This week, Microsoft is wriggling to try and fend off an E.U. ruling against it, while the chip maker ...READ»

Rock Star Engineers Debut in Intel's New Advertising Campaign That Focuses on the Future

When Intel decided to retool its largest advertising push in years, the chipmaker wanted to make a familiar statement: "our products make everyday life possible." But Santa Clara-based advertising firm Venables Bell ...READ»

SunDrum uses PC Technology to Make Solar Systems More Powerful

Massachusetts-based startup SunDrum is working on a liquid-filled heat sink that boosts the power output of photovoltaic panels (PV) and heats water--all with the help of a solar collector that's similar to something you would see ...READ»

The Netbook Just Grew Up: Sharp's Mebius Has an LCD Trackpad

Looks like the netbook is no longer the immature, dim-witted cousin of the grown-up laptop: Sharp's new Mebius netbook is so shiny and clever it outclasses many "superior" machines. It's got a multi-touch LCD where its ...READ»

Intel Wants to be Inside the Smart Grid

Everyone is angling for a piece of the smart grid's multi-billion dollar pie, and Intel plans on taking the biggest slice. Wind turbine manufacturers already use the Intel's embedded chips to control turbine vane pitch, rotation, ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - #6 Intel

Acer's AspireRevo Shows Why a Nettop May Be Your Next PC

The AspireRevo PC is a nettop, as far as the class of computer can be defined. Similar to netbooks, nettops are generally characterized as ultra-small PCs, powered by Intel Atom CPU chips, and with capabilities that are ...READ»

Cellscope Diagnoses Diseases from Your Cell Phone

What if you could diagnose an ear infection with your cell phone? That might be possible thanks to an innovation from University of California, Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher. The professor's "Cellscope: Telemicroscopy for ...READ»

Intel Ensures Better Next-Gen Netbooks With New Atom Chips

Intel's just unveiled two new chips in its ground-breaking Atom range of CPUs, one year to the day the first chip was launched. A cause for celebration for one main reason: Without the Atom we probably would not have netbooks. And ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - #6 Intel
• Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

iFive: Netbooks Flirt with Android, Hello BlackBerry App World, and Steve Jobs to Give Away Macs? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation resolved not to be fooled again. Here's today's innovation news:  1. The netbook market gets even hotter with a report that HP, Asus, Dell, and other PC makers are testing versions of the ...READ»

iFive: GM on the Fritz, 'Monsters vs. Aliens,' Intel's Cool (Really!), and G20 Protests in Today's Innovation News

While you enjoyed your weekend, innovation wore her 3-D glasses while having a little work done on her arms. Here's today's news:  1. With the auto industry on the fritz, President Obama rolls out the beginning of his auto ...READ»

How Expensive is Samsung's Viral Video Super PC?

This week Samsung released an "edgy" viral video to appeal to the youngsters and get people talking about its solid-state hard drives. At the risk of indulging the electronics company by doing just that, I've broken down the ...READ»

Intel's Phone-Media Hub Mash-Up is a Curiously Dated Idea

Intel doesn't think that the home phone is dead--despite some pretty compelling evidence that more and more people are using cellphones as their main telecommunications systems. And it wants to combine a home phone with another ...READ»

Apple Homogenizes its Lineup with More iMac, Mac Mini

Apple pulled the wraps off a suite of new hardware today--all upgrades to its desktop computing line, with both the iMac and Mac Mini getting some modernization. Although what Apple is doing might be better labeled ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50: #4 Apple