http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-01-20T12:56:53-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/angel_investors_in_america.php NOTE: I'm promoting this to the top today because of its comment thread. When I first interviewed Richard Wingard back in September, I thought little of it. He seemed to have a clever way to research basic research, using individual... 8939@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Investment 2006-01-20T12:56:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/05/is_otellini_changing_intel_quickly_enough.php When Paul Otellini was named the CEO of Intel last year, he promised major changes. As the first non-engineer to rise to the top at the chipmaker, he said he would push platforms, and communications, and low power, and change... 45504@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2006-01-05T10:51:27-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/21/sun_coo_endorses_intel.php Not literally. Nowhere in this blog item does Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz even mention Intel. CORRECTION: Jonathan did mention it in passing, in terms of what not to do. Since I've been getting hammered in the comments on this one... 44583@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2005-12-21T12:18:03-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/09/this_weeks_clue_kilbys_law.php In this week's issue of A-Clue.Com we take a new look at Moore's Law, the process that stimulated The Blankenhorn Effect: How to Make Moore's Law Work for You. I come to some new conclusions, about this and other things.... 40028@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-12-09T12:29:33-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/07/the_platform_challenge.php America's biggest tech companies are focused today on the problem of creating, not technologies, but platforms. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Intel and Microsoft and Cisco all rose to prominence with platforms. The first two had "WinTel," a... 39765@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-12-07T11:30:37-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/06/buckytubes_phone_home.php One tragedy of the late Richard Smalley's life was that his beloved Buckytubes did not make more progress into the world of real products. So I'm sure he's smiling from heaven at this news, word that Fujitsu has learned to... 39640@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-12-06T11:41:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/what_the_world_of_always_on_needs_now.php The International Telecommunications Union has released a full report on what I've been calling The World of Always On, which they call The Internet of Things. The report correctly identifies the biggest problem, user acceptance: Concerns over privacy and data... 39530@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-12-05T14:28:23-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/02/universal_mobile_phones_coming_soon.php There are cell phones, there are WiFi phones, there are cordless phones, and there are VOIP phones. But never the twain shall meet. Now a universal wireless phone has come a big step closer, with news that WiSpry has perfected... 39340@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2005-12-02T13:52:16-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/29/moores_chicken_pecks_sony.php Maxell is planning to release a holographic disk next year that can hold 300 GBytes of data, and transfer it at speeds to 160 Mbps. (The animated chicken is from Krittercards. Get yours today.) Meanwhile, Sony and Toshiba are continuing... 38922@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-11-29T14:13:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/21/mooreslore_part_of_the_year.php Every year, it seems a new part comes to the fore. Last year it was the hard drive. Between TiVos and the iPod, it seemed everyone was buying a new device with a big honking hard drive in it. This... 38389@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-11-21T14:36:21-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/15/give_me_hotzones_or_give_me_death.php There's a lot of hyperbole there. (Patrick Henry, right, was nothing if not hyperbolic.) But the fact is that the tools and technologies needed to create a "hot zone" -- an area that can get 802.11 wireless coverage -- keeps... 37970@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2005-11-15T15:33:17-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/09/intel_wimax_strategy_fizzling.php Intel's strategy of delivering a fixed 802.16 WiMax standard, then moving immediately to a mobile version, is fizzling. There's not enough equipment for the fixed, because everyone is waiting for the mobile. And anything for the mobile has to face... 37765@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2005-11-09T12:17:47-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/01/cops_vs_robbers.php Some recent posts at Techdirt have me thinking of some basic questions, about the pace of change and the continuing battle between cops and robbers. In successive entries, we have dismissal of new anti-crime ideas from the banking industry, copyright... 37622@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-11-01T15:19:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/31/how_the_bucky_man_transformed_my_alma_mater.php Dr. Richard Smalley passed away last week. Few men have ever transformed an institution as profoundly as Dr. Smalley transformed my alma mater, Rice University in Houston. It started before he got there. When I was an undergraduate I went... 37593@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Science 2005-10-31T12:28:01-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/28/replacing_edison.php Thomas Edison was America's greatest inventor. He was wonderfully prolific, a symbol of the 19th century who stayed active well into the 20th. But many of his inventions have been replaced: His ideas on the use of DC current were... 37542@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-10-28T10:08:03-05:00