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Uday points out many of the bells of whistles on the mobile device. He explains how the sleak device is powered by a tiny, might Intel Atom processor, allowing the OQO to play HD and do the things you like doing on PC.
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Like I explained earlier here, I didn't make it to CES this year and had to watch from afar. Fortunately there have been some fantastic videos and photos posted from the event that make me feel like I was almost there.
Here's a collection of some photos taken during Intel Chairman Craig Barrett's keynote at CES this past Friday afternoon. This is one particular part of the big event in Vegas that I was truly bummed to have missed. Barrett talked about a subject that is important to me personally (education) and reiterated the goals of the Small Things Challenge announced earlier last week, and he also had some fantastic guest appearance, too. Adam Levine from Maroon 5 and Adam Duritz from Counting Crows joined Barrett on stage and the Counting Crows played at the Intel party later that night at LAX at the Luxor!
Our pals from Rocketboom spent part of Friday filming and editing this inside the Intel booth. If you like a fast-paced look at the eye-candy all around CES then this “Supercuts” video’s for you.
I got my hands on an Acer AirOne netbook to our engineers added the Intel Link 5150 Wi-Fi-/WiMAX chip. I'd seen Centrino 2 laptops with WiMAX and I followed the launch of WiMAX service now available in Baltimore and Portland, but I had never seen a netbook connect to WiMAX.
Lovely little beams of blue light flickered off the antenna popping out of a tiny black box inside the CES Kickoff Party Thursday night. That’s when things turned real interesting and geeky…
Efren Toscano from TechZulu was first on the record button after we introduced ourselves to the cool guy who we would soon learn was the software wizard who built the award-winning, hot mobile Internet Device at CES, the OQO.
In these tough economic times it's not uncommon for many of us to hunker down and focus on how this climate is affecting us and our families. I myself tend to cut back on extra spending, often limiting my contributions to the various chartible organizations to whom I give regularly. But as I listened to Intel Chairman Craig Barrett's keynote at CES today, a different feeling overwhelmed me: I felt the urge to give and to give more.
Dr. Barrett shared some troubling numbers on education in emerging countries. (The staggering statistic that suck in my mind was that 75 million children in the world are not in school.) He was then joined onstage individually by musical powerhouses Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows. They each highilighted the important work that organizations like Save The Children and Kiva.org are doing to provide necessary services for children and economic support for entrepreneurs and small business owners in emerging countries from around the world.
Earlier today at CES, several computer manufacturers announced new Intel-based Classmate PCs with the convertible design that lets kids convert the clamshell design into a tablet. They look very cool... I can't wait to play with one! 
Ubergizmo posted live updates from the press conference where the PCs were unveiled.
Here's a quick rundown of key features of the new Intel-based convertible Classmate PC design. More info, including tech specifications, here.
Intel also announced the Intel Learning Series, an initiative that integrates hardware, software and services designed specifically for education and supports technology companies that customize products and services in their own country, innovating in and around the classmate PC reference design. Local PC manufacturers will offer both the new Intel-powered convertible classmate PC and the existing clamshell design to students and teachers and the PCs will be preloaded with student-friendly software through support from the Intel Learning Series.
The addition of the new convertible PC will coexist with the existing clamshell design, which is being used in Portugal's Magalhães (Magellan) Initiative - the Portuguese government's country-wide program to provide PCs to all elementary school children via the local computer manufacturer and telecom service providers. Intel has been involved with various pilots of the clamshell-design Classmate PCs in Mexico and Nigeria. Check out these videos on the pilots -- pretty amazing and inspiring what technology can do in the classroom.
Wi-Fi is getting into everything. One of the coolest is the Spykee Spy Robot, a Wi-Fi remote-controlled webcam robot. At CES, MPG Wireless shows how the just launched Intel My WiFi turns a Centrino 2 notebook into a portable Wi-Fi network. What does this mean? The notebook and the Spykee Spy Robot can go anywhere--no Wi-Fi access point required! If a Wi-Fi access point is available, the notebook and Skypee Spy Robot can be simultaneously connected to each other and the Internet. Talk about adding even more mobility to a remote controlled robot! This is what My WiFi is all about.
Learn more about this very cool technology that is going to change your digital life check out this animation.
So small and super sleek that Intel Insider Brian Solis had to see it…touch it…capture it with his signature photographic style. I caught him in the act!
Will we ever be able to easily merge the Internet and the TV?
It will happen, someday. Many companies, including Intel, have and continue to try and skin that cat in a variety of ways, each with various degrees of success.
Have a read of a New York Times article and Disney's take on widgets, and tightening joint work between Hollywood and technology companies.
If you're like me, you're trying to stay on top of what's happening at CES right now from your cube in the office. Somehow its just not quite the same as being in the middle of the action in Vegas.
Fortunately, though, I can get the latest on so many of the cool gadgets and technology on display at CES online -- real time!
Video blogger extraordinaire and Intel Insider Sarah Austin (check her out on Pop17) is live-casting straight from the floor of CES at the Intel booth starting today through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Techku via Mogulus. And what's especially cool is that she'll be doing some of her broadcasting over Clear, 4G WiMAX network!
Check it out!
I arrived in Las Vegas this afternoon and swiftly got registered and headed to the Intel booth, where I was greeted by swarms of people ready to get CES underway.
I hung out with Intel Insider Sarah Austin and her crew setting up inside the Intel both, prepping for the launch of her new 24/7 tech videocast channel on Mogulus called Techku.
During the recent election, the power of technology, in particular social media and online communities, was apparent to many. It was exciting for me to see how social media and the Internet could change the way we learn about and participate in the political process.
I was also encouraged to learn that President-Elect Obama plans to elect the country's first chief technology officer (CTO), which I hope will continue to enhance and encourage technology innovation both here in the U.S. and around the world.
On his technology web page Obama says, "I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I'm asking you to believe in yours."
Watch this video and notice how she won't look up at me because she is too busy on Nickjr and Disney.
After meeting Intel Insider JD Lasica a few weeks ago in San Francisco, I asked him what he was most interested in seeing happen at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 in Las Vegas.
In his post Behold the Coming Cinematic Internet, Lasica shared a healthy perspective on the past and present challenges of getting television and Internet to move beyond the dating stage and into a deep, loving relationship inside our living rooms.
It's December 19 and there is less than 3 weeks before thousands of tech geeks congregate in the streets of Las Vegas to attend the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. For Intel, this is a very important show for us because it allows us to showcase our very cool products, talk with real people and share our story. It's one thing to have conversation online; it's another to foster those same relationships up close and personal.
Well, you can always go directly to Engagdget, Cnet, Crunchgear or the CES blog and sift through the hundreds of posts OR (warning: blatant marketing message) you can always go to the Consumer Electronics Insider: an aggregation hub that collects CES related content (blog posts, Twitter conversations, Flickr images, and Youtube videos) from the same resources listed above plus several other technology related blogs.
We are also pulling in content from the Intel Insiders (Cathy Brooks, Justine Ezarik, Tom Forenski, Frank Gruber, J.D. Lasica, Sarah Austin, Brian Solis and Irina Slutsky). Check it out and please bookmark for future reference. The site is dynamic and will be updated with new content hourly. Late.
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