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Squawk Box Feb 27 – Small Computers vs. Big Phones: The Coming War

by alec on March 1, 2009

The title of Friday’s call was Small Computers vs. Big Phones, and the impetus was an issue of Mark Anderson’s Strategic News Service by the same name. We talked about the coming “war” between smartphones and netbooks, computing in the cloud, and where the intersection between these devices might occur.

Many people expressed the opinion that we would likely be carrying multiple devices, depending on context, and thus were inclined to dismiss the idea that a war might be coming as hyperbole.

Nevertheless, there’s certainly jockeying for position going on as TI prepares to ship 1W multi-core processors, operating system vendors duke it out, and the device manufacturers themselves battle for the hearts and minds of consumers.

Friday’s conference call was recorded on Calliflower. In attendance: Tim Panton, Carl Ford, Jonathan Greene, Brad Jones, Bill Volk, Jim Courtney, Doug Renert, Kim Dushinski, Barlow Keener, Sheryl Breukrer, Ken Camp, Todd Spraggins, Sergio Meinardi, Misha Nossik, and Aga Magdolen.

Squawk Box Feb 27 [ 49:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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JAJAH and Intel go Green

by alec on August 14, 2008

If you’re green geek or a tech geek, you’ll appreciate JAJAH and Intel’s announcement today that they have partnered up to release “remote wake” aware telephony software for a new generation of Intel motherboards. What this means is that a properly equipped PC will be able to go to sleep to save energy, and then wake up to receive an incoming telephone call. A modern PC can draw 300W of energy when on. In a household like mine, with 7 or 8 PC’s running at any time, that’s as much as 20 electric light bulbs left on constantly.

The motherboards in question will be available next month.

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Intel patents the softphone

May 9, 2007

The giants of the technology industry have some pretty fascinating bits of intellectual property lurking in their patent portfolios. For most, patents are a defensive strategy, rather than a business in and of themselves; although in recent years Microsoft, for example, has become much more sophisticated about how they manage those patents. Some of the [...]

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