http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-01-05T10:51:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 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/2005/12/07/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/2005/11/09/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/2005/10/30/the_50_cellphone.php The $50 phone is coming. I’m not talking about a phone that costs $50 to make (that retails for $250). I’m talking a phone that costs $50 or less to make at retali. Americans already get free phones, subsidized by... 37580@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2005-10-30T19:14:44-05:00 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 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/25/intel_losing_power.php The headline is a pun. Intel's new chip road map, announced today, implements a commitment to lower-power processors the company announced earlier. But in some ways the headline is not a pun. Intel really is losing some of its power,... 37281@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2005-10-25T14:38:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/you_know_for_kids.php Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab fame, still trying to remain relevant, has announced a program called One Laptop Per Child, which wants to mass produce fully-loaded Linux laptops for schoolchildren in the dveloping world. Given what happened here in... 36659@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2005-09-29T14:38:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/the_best_way_to_kill_technology.php The best way to kill a promising technology is to argue about it in standards bodies. That's why UltraWideBand hasn't come to market yet. The technology works, but there are two ways to implement it. One path is offered by... 36656@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-09-29T13:42:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/26/apples_friends_are_foreign.php Last week's tirade by Motorola CEO Ed Zander, set alongside the nasty noises about Apple from music publishers , Microsoft's noise about its entry into the market and iSuppli's autopsy of the iPod Nano design all point to one salient... 36541@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-09-26T12:28:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/18/rice_wins_again.php No, not on the football field, silly. (The original Rice seal, to the right, dates from 1911, and carries its own story, including Confederate gray "warmed into life by a tinge of lavender.") I'm talking about the laboratory, where... 8956@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Semiconductors 2005-09-18T10:15:30-05:00