Datacenter managers have, for years, enjoyed a number of benefits of using Intel Xeon processors in their systems, including better load balancing through virtualization which leads to the ability to very effectively scale up and down a solution so just … Read more
Smart phones may be all the rage, but when they are limited by the network, no one is happy. Technologies like 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, and the like may sound great in principle, but sometimes the limitation is not between … Read more
Everyone knows that Android is wildly popular in the mobile phone market. In the course of just a few short years, it went from literally zero (it didn’t exist on the market before October, 2008) to being king of the … Read more
Electric cars are nothing new. In fact, just of 100 years ago, they were considered a very reasonable alternative to gasoline powered cars from that era. Then, due to advancements in the internal combustion engine at the time, and other … Read more
The “Smart Home” is not a new concept. For years, the likes of Popular Mechanics & other similar media outlets would highlight the latest advancement to make your home smarter. But many of those solutions had issues. Recently, Intel worked with Kontron to develop an incredibly small Digital Nexus that can work with a number of M2M devices, all while using very standard interfaces, like 3G, Wi-Fi, and ZigBee Read more
While firewalls are nothing new, the services the provide & the dangers against which they guard are both constantly evolving and changing. That’s why, when Topsec wanted to make a next generation firewall, they turned to the latest Intel platform, codenamed Crystal Forest, to be the core of their very capable system. Read more
Many of use have watched with wonder as Jedis from the popular Star Wars film can, with the use if just their will & “The Force,” move heavy objects (even an X-wing Fighter) through the air. However, while true telekinetics remains within the realm of science-fiction, virtual telekinetics will soon be within your reach – pardon my pun. Specifically, thanks to the new “Kinect for Windows” SDK that Microsoft has released, embedded developers working on their next Intelligent Systems idea can leverage this to enable the “virtual you” to be able to move things through your virtual environment like a Jedi! Read more
Day one (for me) at CES – wow – what can I say, CES is like falling down the (tech) Rabbit Hole in Alice & Wonderland except on steroids – and then squared. Yes, I know, guilty, I’m an Intel … Read more
Let me start with a Pet Peeve of mine: Fashion. I hate Fashion. And when I say “hate” I don’t mean “dislike” like how I dislike how, no matter where I park at the airport, the bus always seems to … Read more
There was a time, not so long ago, when the word “computing” invoked a relatively limited number of images: a server, a desktop computer, maybe a laptop. Today, that word is expanding in its applicability to some expected places (smart … Read more
