WiMax is one reason I want to be in Baltimore right about now!

posted by Michael Brito on September 29, 2008

Not because I enjoy the weather in the northeast. Not because I am Baltimore Ravens fan either. If you haven't heard, those who live in Baltimore will be the first to have access to the evolution of wireless connectivity built by a major wireless company, Sprint (now called Xohm). What this will do is turn the entire city into a "hot spot" for those people like me who like-to-be, want-to-be, have-to-be connected to the Internet at all times. The network has been open to beta testers for quite sometime; but is now available for everyone in the area.

So, tell me Michael, how can this be?

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Gamers - Start Drooling...

posted by Esther Andrews on September 29, 2008

The latest toy I got to bring home to play with was one of the newest, not yet even announced quad-core gaming laptops. It's like no PC I'd ever seen before. It's screaming fast, gorgeous, sexy, and the graphics are stunning. It's crisper and sharper than my HD TV and the gaming was so realistic the blood and gore made me so nauseous I had to turn it off. It was yet another PC I could barely get my hands on with a 17-year old gamer in the house. Naysayers beware. I don't care if the laptop is big and heavy and has a big power brick, you're going to want one. Gamers - start drooling!

 

Seeing is Believing....Esquire House

posted by Kiesha Cochrane on September 28, 2008

I was in LA all last week to check out the Esquire House and prep for the Rock the Vote party. After the mayhem of Thursday night (full blog on that event posted here!), I was finally able to sit down and put some videos/pics. together to share! As much as I have tried to describe what this place actually looks like, but after seeing it in person words just can't do it justice. 

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Rock the Vote, Esquire House Style....

posted by Kiesha Cochrane on September 26, 2008

I'm sitting at LAX airport (yuk) reminiscing on the events of last nights celebrity studded Rock the Vote event at the Esquire House in the Hollywood Hills! iJustine, Marc Horowitz, Intel's own Becky Emmett and myself were fortunate enough to make the guest list and rub elbows with some friendly and other not so friendly stars (I'll leave the gossip to Perez)!

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California bans texting while driving - will computing be next?

posted by Annie Frost on September 26, 2008

I've been sitting back imagining all the possibilities which WiMAX will bring...  Being able to take my laptop absolutely anywhere and use it will be really nice.  Today, my personal computing is limited to my house, my backyard hammock, and a few local coffee shops that provide free internet access.  To be perfectly clear, I'm not a gadget geek, the fewer devices I have, the better.  My budget for technology just isn't that high - I don't even pay for cable TV.  That's just my style.

At the Open Oracle World conference in San Francisco, the Intel WiMAX car was present once again.  This car has toured along with Intel for the last few months since CES:

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Netbooks Take to Drinking and Keep on Booting

posted by Esther Andrews on September 22, 2008

At the recent San Francisco Intel Developer Forum, I had the opportunity to demonstrate a dozen of the latest netbooks (simple, affordable devices for the Internet), which were strategically located next to the food and drink station in the convention hall so we'd get lots of traffic. And traffic we got. With food and beers in hand. You know how that went. An entire beer spilled onto an MSI netbook. We shook and drained it for over an hour, pressing paper towels into every keyboard nook & cranny. It had the morning after stench of a frat house party, but lo and behold the next morning...it booted and we continued to demonstrate its features for the next two days. For more on netbooks, see my PodTech interview.

 

The Ultimate Bachelor Pad

posted by Kiesha Cochrane on September 19, 2008

Not just bachelors would LOVE to live in this pad! Intel is partnering with Lenovo and Esquire Magazine to bring the latest and greatest technology to this breathtaking, sixth annual Esquire "Signature Space", this year known as Esquire House Hollywood Hills.

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Catching the WiMAX Wave

posted by David Angell on September 17, 2008

I just got back from vacation, spending my days boggie boarding in the sun and surf. Now I'm back in the Intel cube farm, baggies and board hung up for the season. Or so I thought. No sooner had I got back, when I got a chance to catch the Big Kahuna of wireless waves, WiMAX. What is WiMAX? Think of it as the mother of all wireless rides. This 4G (fourth generation) wireless combines the familiarity of WiFi with the mobility of cellular to deliver real broadband Internet. Check out Sean Maloney's WiMAX video for an inside look.

To catch these WiMAX waves, I was handed a new kind of boggie board, an Intel^® Centrino^® notebook with an Intel^® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 onboard. I grabbed an Intel buddy Sanjiv Gupta (he doesn't get out of the lab much)and headed out to catch WiMAX waves from a trial WiMAX network that covers almost 150 square miles. Excitement was in the air.

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Living life Unwired: My MID life crisis

posted by Michael Brito on September 17, 2008

I am addicted to the Internet, seriously.  I am online about 18 hours a day; at work, at home and on my Blackberry en route to one of the two.  No kidding.  Email me and I'll respond in milliseconds. Poke me and I'll super poke you back. Add me as a friend in Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and I'll reciprocate faster than you can say "dang, that was quick".

I'm addicted and I need counseling; and the launch of MIDS isn't going to help me any.  All it will do is contribute to my insomnia, carpals tunnel and LCD blindness. So unless you are "cool geek" and "in the know" like me, you may be asking yourself what a MID is or what it stands for.  Sounds kinda weird, I know ... but a MID is an acronym for Mobile Internet Device.  It's similar to an iPhone but has no phone functionality.

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My Unmobile Life - I Want My SSDs

posted by Esther Andrews on September 15, 2008

You hear it all the time - treat your laptop gingerly and remember to back up your files. You think it won't happen to you. My latest laptop lasted for an entire year, an all time record for the "power laptop destroyer," who went through three or four hard drives last year. Convinced my new laptop was invincible, I did the unthinkable - a hard shut down followed by two hours in the car in 100 degree heat. You can guess how that ended.

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Meet Emily...She's Unreal!

posted by Bob Duffy on September 12, 2008

I've seen a lot of cool 3D work but this one is just "unreal"! Below is a 3D demo from Image Metrics. It is not obvious, but Emily, the actress in this demo is computer generated

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Inside Scoopin' It

posted by Kiesha Cochrane on September 11, 2008

Welcome to the Inside Scoop! I couldn't be more excited to be a part of this brand new community. Let me start by letting you know, I am VERY new to Intel and let's just say I'm a technology greenhorn. I started with Intel about two months ago and I'm still learning loads about technology and exactly what it is that Intel does and how our work affects everyday lives.

Last month I was able to attend the Intel Developer Forum aka IDF. IDF is a spectacular geek-fest where I spent some time exploring, meeting great people and learning as much as I could about technology. You can check out my blogs from IDF here.

Get ready for a really sweet and interesting ride through my adventures not only as a new Intel employee but also as I discover how much technology (particularly Intel technology J) helps us function.

 

"Dummies Dude" Gets the Inside Scoop

posted by David Angell on September 10, 2008

Hi, I'm David Angell, a technical writer, part of a wireless technology tribe at Intel. I'm surrounded by talented people working on cutting edge technologies. Like some pith-helmeted anthropologist, I'm always asking them questions, picking their brains, learning new stuff, and experiencing their technologies. I've been doing this kind of stuff for awhile but I never get tired of it. In a previous life, I was a computer industry journalist and author of books like DSL For Dummies, The Elements of E-mail Style, and the Microsoft Office Word 2003 Bible.

When it comes to technology, I'm a consumer, a user, even an abuser. I'm an unabashed, self-taught geek. As I've learned, technology doesn't operate in a vacuum; it gets mixed up with life to change both. I love "playing" hard with technology to find those juxtapositions. So I jumped at the chance to become a mobility "beat reporter" for Inside Scoop. How could I pass it up? Sharing stories--yours and mine--about technology and its impact on our lives sounds like pure natural fun! I can't wait.

 

Justin Lassen's Zen-Like Mobile Existence

posted by Esther Andrews on September 09, 2008

LA musician, Justin Lassen, who's drawing accolades for his compositions he creates on his laptop, was the lucky winner in 2005 of an Intel Centrino-based Toshiba laptop at Intel's E3 party. He's now upgrading to one of the latest and greatest Centrino 2-based laptops from Sony.  Check out his story about his Zen-like mobile life on Intel's "What's Inside You" page.  And look forward to more stories when he reports back on Centrino 2!

 

Raise the curtain for the Inside Scoop

posted by Michael Brito on September 09, 2008

Clap. Clap. Clap...Hello, I am Michael Brito and welcome to the Inside Scoop blog. Here's where you'll find the latest & greatest news, commentary and conversations on everything about Intel - from cool product updates, random thoughts to interviews with Intel employees (yes, believe it or not, there are wildly interesting people running around here starting with me of course). Along the way, we'll try to make this blog a touch more exciting to read than your television's user manual.

So bookmark this blog, join our Facebook page or subscribe to our RSS feed, and let's pump up the volume. We will be updating weekly so be sure to check back soon! And of course, we believe in listening and would love to get your feedback on this blog -- and what you want to see discussed in the future. 

To get to know me on a more personal level, you can visit my social media blog or follow me on Twitter.

 

Inside Scoop on Consumer Geek!

posted by Bob Duffy on September 08, 2008

Call Me Consumer Geek!  First off, gotta tell you I work for Intel, BUT that is not why I'm posting here.  In part it is why I CAN post.  However I asked if I could blog here because I am a consumer of technology and I have a fairly active digital lifestyle that is more and more pervasive in my life.  Not everything I use is an Intel product. SHOCK!  And like this post I intend to express my experiences, many of them having little to do with Intel.

So why post here?  I think it comes to the core of why Intel is hosting this blog, which I believe is to allow consumers who are using technology to talk and be heard.

So let me start by asking a question.  If you like technology and use technology, do you consider yourself technical?  I don't.  And it's something I find odd.  People who like tech are considered "technical".  I think of an engineer, or a developer as technical. I don't know how this stuff works, but I like getting it to work.  And with that I get the "He's technical" label.

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