This past week was a blur for anyone who attended this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES means lots of oxygen-infused hotel lobbies, jostling crowds, gadgets galore and late nights rubbing shoulders with folks in the vast electronics industry that now encompasses, well, everything. If you attended this year as a CES virgin you…
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What does mobility mean to you and how does it affect your life? Genevieve Bell an Intel fellow, social scientist and anthropologist by trade has some interesting ideas as she has been researching this question for Intel with various projects for quite sometime. We caught up with Genevieve previously at SXSW where she shared some of…
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Intel, a company that, as an innovator in the development of new technology, has propelled the computing industry forward, launched a new program, Intel Innovators, to help young innovators propel their big ideas. Staying true to its current slogan “sponsors of tomorrow,” the Intel Innovators program searches to find and reward the brightest ideas they…
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It’s hard to read about Apple’s iPhone event the other day without being confronted with a flood of disappointed customers. Hundreds of case studies have been written that focus on Apple, which is getting kind of annoying – isn’t there another successful company that people can write about as an example? – and its ability to…
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There are so many reasons why America needs to break the shackles of big oil interests and move to renewable green energy. It isn’t just about saving the environment, and it’s not about wordsmithing and morphing global warming to the more energy company-friendly term climate change. It’s about retooling an economy and starting the next…
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Let’s cut to the chase. You’ve been on Facebook since it was “The Facebook” and have amassed a staggering amount of friends, photos, memories and videos. Put bluntly, a quick glance at your profile would make the Dos Equis’ Most Interesting Man in the World’s life experiences pale in comparison. Isn’t it time you had…
Read More Let’s cut to the chase. You’ve been on Facebook since it was “The Facebook” and have amassed a staggering amount of friends, photos, memories and videos. Put bluntly, a quick glance at your profile would make the Dos Equis’ Most Interesting Man in the World’s life experiences pale in comparison. Isn’t it time you had…
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Intel has been on the forefront of innovation for the past couple decades as microprocessors are now a part of just about every electronic device you come into contact with. So I was excited to catch up with Intel Fellow and Anthropologist Genevieve Bell recently to discuss her latest findings in the area of human…
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Today is Steve Jobs 56th birthday and with that, Apple has released a new Macbook Pro. The new Macbook Pro is faster, thinner, lighter and more robust. It’s unibody design is machined from a single piece of aluminum and it leverages a state-of-the-art Intel Core technology to make these laptops 2 to 3 times faster…
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In the shadows of a Microsoft and Nokia partnership which some think caught Intel off guard in their own alliance with Nokia, Intel Capital announced investments in six mobile companies totaling $26 Million at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The investments focus on driving innovation in mobile hardware, software and apps ecosystems. The six companies…
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We have been testing the Logitech Revue Google TV for the last month or so. At first, I was rather skeptical of the product but upon connecting it I was have loved it. Setup can be a little tricky at first but after setup you will find this device to be quite lovely. This is…
Read MoreThis past month at the Consumer Electronic Show the future of TV was a main focus as I walked around the hundreds of flashing monitors. The buzzword was “SmartTV” as many televisions where connected to the Internet. TV’s seemed to not only be smarter but also more portable by leveraging a number of different screens…
Read MoreToday we covered Lady Gaga and her participation as the “Creative Director” of Polaroid, so it only makes sense to share that today Intel announced that Will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas is Intel’s new Director of Creative Innovation. I’d call this the beginning of a tech company trend. What’s next? Taylor Swift as Director…
Read MoreThe Maestro tablet from Evolve III attempts to standout from the slew of tablets that are going to be hitting the market by running on multiple operating systems. That’s right, the tablet will be released later this year as a switchable device with Android, MeeGo or Windows 7 operating systems. At CES, the tablet was…
Read MoreLast week at the Consumer Electronic Show, Intel had some exciting news as they launched their 2nd Generation of Core Processors just as we had previewed. The event was kicked off by CEO Paul Otellini and then followed up by Mooly Eden, Intel Vice President & General Manager, PC Client Group. We attended the launch…
Read MoreWith the 2011 Consumer Electronic Show just a few days away, Intel is gearing up for a few launch announcements. I plan to be there to see them live, but it appears the cat is already out of the bag as it was reported today that Intel will be launching a new core processor and…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More