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Posted Intel Reader Innovates Text to Voiceto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Intoduced on November 10, the Intel Reader is inspiring many people to learn more about what exacetly the device does, how it works and what’s inside. In short, the Intel Reader is a mobile device that can help increase independence...


Posted What's On Your Uber Holiday Gadget Gift List?to Inside Scoop @ Intel

The day before consumer technology blog Ubergizmo unveiled their Uber10 list of gadget gift ideas for the holidays (KGO-TV’s Richard Hart report aired 11/15, embedded below), my seven-year-old son asked me what I wanted for Christmas. It was his savvy...


Posted My Interest in Technology is Really a Recent Phenomenonto Inside Scoop @ Intel

This is a guest post from Intel Insider Erin Kane, one of the dynamic duos behind ManicMommies — follow them on Twitter. We first met at Intel’s Upgrade Your Life event earlier this year, and joined her this month for...


Posted In the Mind of a Mobile Developerto Inside Scoop @ Intel

This is a guest post by Intel Insider Steve “Chippy” Paine, who was sponsored by Intel recently to attend the Intel Developer Forum and Mobile Dev Camp in Munich.  He shares in mobile technology insights at UMPCPortal and MIDMoves. Trying to work...


Posted Tips and Insights on Windows 7to Inside Scoop @ Intel

Yesterday, it seemed that every time I turned on a radio or peeked at my tech newsfeeds, there was Windows 7. I’ve been reading lots of stories and reviews today now that the new operating system is out. One of...


Posted Meet the New Intel Insidersto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Intel’s social media advisory program, dubbed the Intel Insiders, is now in its second year. For the past few months we’ve collected feedback from our original Insiders and attended social media events searching for new people who could help us...


Posted Old PC Holding You Back?to Inside Scoop @ Intel

Laptops are helping more people do more of what they love in more places around the world. That’s what we learned while collecting stories and footage from the UC Berkeley campus, Malaysia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We mixed those...


Posted Innovation Involves Inclusion -- Traveling Geeks Meet Intel UKto Inside Scoop @ Intel

The Traveling Geeks have hit their stride in the UK, where they’ve been meeting with movers and shakers turning to technology innovation as a way for improving start up businesses, education and government agencies. On Monday, they met with my...


Posted Traveling Geeks Hit UK with Intel Insideto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Sure it’s nice and sunny these days in the San Francisco Bay Area, but almost everyone I know has been bitten by the travel bug. If the UK is one place you’re thinking about, then check out the Traveling Geeks,...


Posted Acer Timeline Laptop Makes Me Want to Get Back to Schoolto Inside Scoop @ Intel

After uploading this video earlier today, it really got me thinking how much I’d love to be back in college. No, I wouldn’t trade anything to travel back in time — I like movin’ ahead! — but I get the...


Posted Viliv X70 MID Pre-Orders July 6to Inside Scoop @ Intel

Inspired by Inside Scoop Maestro Michael Brito -- he did a great video preview of the Viliv S5 back when the mobile Internet device was about to hit the market -- I got hooked on the solid, nifty Viliv...


Posted Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Futureto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Some of Intel’s top researchers are gathered inside the Computer History Museum Thursday to show of their latest projects aimed at helping future gadgets, computers and just about anything that connects to the Internet (cars, schools, homes) harness the...


Posted Give Me What I Want for Tomorrow -- T-Shirt and Songto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Since Intel’s “Sponsors of Tomorrow” ad campaign hit TV, print, online, and on and in-store advertising campaign hit many of our daily visit spots, I’ve seen lots of great responses. Two of the most common came in the form these...


Posted Intel Insiders Social Media Advisor Program Turns Twoto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Two steps forward and a half step back to see if we’re going in the right direction and bringing forward things that can help us leap into tomorrow. That’s how we’re celebrating the June 24 anniversary of our Intel Insiders...


Posted Computex Watch -- The Skinny on Laptops, New Mobile Devicesto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Wow, lots of new innovations on being unveiled at Computex in Taipei during the first few days. I’ve been keeping my eyes on a few people there on the scene, and from there branching out to see the reaction from...


Posted Computex Watch: Mobile Gadgets, Laptops and WiMAXto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Many eyes are turning to Taipei for this week’s Computex, the largest IT trade show in Asia that runs from June 2-6. Every year, this is where new mobile technologies are unveiled, and this year I’m looking for the latest...


Posted Stanford and Intel Moving Innovation Into Tomorrowto Inside Scoop @ Intel

In the spirit the new Intel campaign, Sponsors of Tomorrow, I was delighted to learn about Stanford University and Intel celebrating decades collaboration and technology research "rock stars." This is a collection of highlights from a full feature story with...


Posted Future Wearable Tech from NYU Studentsto Inside Scoop @ Intel

While high school science whiz kids from around the world are traveling to Reno, NV to compete in this year’s Intel Science and Engineering Fair, a group tech-savvy students at Tisch School of the Arts in New York will hold...


Posted Evolution of Mobile Internet Gadgetsto Inside Scoop @ Intel

This is Moore’s Law in action mixed with the beauty of innovative hardware design and software refinement. Seeing this video is believing in that there has been significant progress in the past three years, as more tech experts work together...


Posted WiMAX Gets a Rocketboom Tech Treatmentto Inside Scoop @ Intel

A week prior to getting Intel Insiders inside the Intel WiMAX labs in Hillsboro, Oregon, Rocketboom's Ellie Rountree took time during her Great Northwest visit to get a more in-depth, inside-the-labs experience of what WiMAX really is, how it works...


Posted Intel Insiders Set to Explore Intel Fab, Labs and WiMAX in Oregonto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Tomorrow and Friday, I'll be joining a handful of Intel Insiders to get an insider's, hands-on look at the Intel innovation engines rockin' in Oregon.Tom Foremski shared his excitement about the trip this week, as did the Portland Social Media...


Posted Conversation from Intel's Corner Officeto Inside Scoop @ Intel

I’m a big fan of American Public Media’s daily radio show MarketPlace. I love the turn-of-phrase masters behind the mic — from the David Brancaccio before 2005 to the show’s current host, Kai Ryssdal. The show delivers some of public...


Posted Intel Posse and a Dozen MIDs Gettin' Busy at SXSW Interactiveto Inside Scoop @ Intel

A posse of Intel employees representing Arizona, California and Oregon are heading to the South by Southwest Interact festival from March 13-17. We’ll be packin’ 15 new Mobile Internet Devices (MID), each powered by the tiny, might Intel Atom processor....


Posted Intel Inside Twitterto Inside Scoop @ Intel

This week, @intel came alive inside the Twitterverse. A wise employee set up the account a while ago and graciously gave the keys to Intel’s Center of Excellence, a team brain-powered by @bryanrhoads and @kellyrfeller who helped form Intel’s official...


Posted Getting Energy Smart Using Today's Technologyto Inside Scoop @ Intel

I got to attend the final afternoon of the CleanTech event in San Francisco this week. I got to meet professionals investing in eco-smart technologies and services, and talked with people interested in influencing better behaviors, like the blog TreeHugger....


Posted What's Next in the World of Filmmaking?to Inside Scoop @ Intel

The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA kicks off this week — February 25 through March 8, 2009. TRANSFORM is this year’s theme, and you can see some of the movie trailers on The Cinequest YouTube channel....


Posted A Classmate for Fun and Learningto Inside Scoop @ Intel

In my Google Alerts the other day, I found one of those serendipitous gems that made the geek dad in me smile. G4TV did a fun and funny segment on the Intel Classmate PC, the nifty little netbook-like computer designed...


Posted What Does 32nm Really Mean?to Inside Scoop @ Intel

Today, I got to video record Intel’s first public demonstration of test laptops and desktop PCs running processors built with Intel’s next generation 32 nanometer circuitry manufacturing technology. I’ll get the presentation video into our Manufacturing video channel soon. Today’s...


Posted Wonders of WiMAX at CESto Inside Scoop @ Intel

WiMax was something I really tuned into during the noisy tech bliss that is CES. Maybe because the demonstrations were better compared with what I saw at [CES 2008](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akr-OnVF4fc), or maybe because the high speed wireless technology is really...


Posted Intel MID Man Joins Sarah Austin on Techku from CES 98to Inside Scoop @ Intel

Intel's Uday Keshavdas shows Sarah Austin the new OQO mobile Internet Device live on Techku, the technology video channel on Mogulus that premiered from the Intel booth at CES 2009. Uday points out many of the bells of whistles on...


Posted Rocketboom's Video Speed Tour of CES 2009to Inside Scoop @ Intel

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....


Posted WiMAX Inside a Netbook at CES 2009to Inside Scoop @ Intel

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...


Posted Designing the OQO Mobile Internet Deviceto Inside Scoop @ Intel

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...


Posted Brian Solis Eyes the Tiny Sony P Seriesto Inside Scoop @ Intel

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!...


Posted People & Technology Get Busy at CES 2009to Inside Scoop @ Intel

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...


Posted Will TV and Internet Work Together Better at CES 2009?to Inside Scoop @ Intel

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...


Posted Hottest Gadgets of 2008to Inside Scoop @ Intel

I'm publishing this guest post on behalf of Intel Insider Brian Solis, who agreed to share his list of favorite gadgets of the year. With CES right around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to spotlight some of...


Posted Shiny New Gadgets, Intel Insiders at CES 2009to Inside Scoop @ Intel

We invited Intel Insider Somewhat Frank Gruber to meet Intel's chief geek CTO Justin Rattner last week in San Francisco to learn about Intel's "Eco-Innovation" research efforts. That's were we clicked the video record button and asked him about Consumer...


Posted Designers Dreaming Up New Tiny, Mighty Internet Gadgetsto Inside Scoop @ Intel

Netbooks are proving to be the hot tech toy for the holidays.  I certainly want one -- I'm asking Santa tomorrow when I take the kids to our local Aviation Museum.  Yet at the end of the year, my attention...


Posted Becoming a Better, Faster Digital Photographerto Inside Scoop @ Intel

It was almost 10 years ago when I got my first digital camera. Never having to wait attentively for those fleeting magical moments, and never having to take my rolls of film to the drugstore anymore freed me up to...


Posted Editing Highly Compressed HD Video Files with Easeto Inside Scoop @ Intel

This week I got to see filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg in video editing action during the Intel Core i7 event at San Francisco's Dogpatch Studios. For this Bandito Brothers editor, it's all about an efficient workflow, killer HD skateboarding footage and...


Posted Video: The Making of Intel Core i7to Inside Scoop @ Intel

My teammate Kari Aakre and I spent time meeting up with five of the thousands of Intel experts that helped design and test the new Intel Core i7 processor.  While shooting on location in the benchmarking lab in Santa Clara,...


Posted Uber10 Top Holiday Gadgets for Under $400to Inside Scoop @ Intel

I've been a fan of tech and gadget blog Ubergizmo since first meeting "everywhere" co-founder Hubert Nguyen in April 2008 at a Lunch 2.0 event.  A few months later, I met Ubergizmo's other co-founder, Eliane Fiolet, first through Facebook and...


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