Intl has laid claim that efforts by system-on-chip (SoC) sellers to optimize Google’s Android mobile operating system for multicore processors are insufficient.
The American chip maker and world’s largest semiconductor provider offers its single-core Medfield Atom processor at a period when nearly all major ARM SoC vendors are riveting campaigns on dual-core and quad-core processors. However, Intel claims that chip makers must exert more on Android optimization for multicore processors to …

PointGrab Comes With Surprises For Windows 8 Users. (Image via LaptopMag)

In case you do not know who Pointgrab is, it’s enough to keep in mind that many manufacturers of recent devices, like notebooks, all-in-one systems, Smart TVs or tablets, are using software solutions from them.
Designed as a platform for reading gestures that uses a classic webcam, Pointgrab will be available as software solution compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8. To better understand the magnitude of this trend …

Using the ancient Chinese medicinal principle of Zheng, a new computer software developed by University of Missouri researchers helps you check your health. (Image: via arch1design.com)

A new computer software analyzes pictures of your tongue and determines your health according to the principles of zheng, an ancient Chinese medicinal system.
This software was developed by researchers from University of Missouri. According to Dong Xu, computer science department chairman for University of …

GrexIt, a relatively new startup, is aiming to help companies have better collaboration by preventing information from getting lost and forgotten in company inboxes. GrexIt intends to help companies create an easy-to-use company-wide knowledge repository with simple tool that’s effortless to use straight from the Gmail inboxes of people.
That may be a tall order, but the company founded by Niraj Ranjan Rout and Nitesh Nandy believes they have the right tool for the job.
GrexIt traces its …

Intel and Huawei will collaborate for LTE TDD network tests in China with interoperability test lab. (Image: Sergio Uceda, via Flickr / CC)

Intel has teamed up with Chinese networking firm Huawei to build an interoperability test lab for the deployment of Long Term Evolution Time-Division Duplexing (LTE TDD) networks.
The giant American chip maker – an outspoken advocate of WiMax, once considered as an LTE rival – has collaborated with Huawei to build a China-based interoperability …

Asia is Targeted Base of New Digital Enterprises: US Showbiz Investor Chernin / image by J Emilio Flores for The New York Times

Peter A. Chernin of the powerful US entertainment investor Chernin Group is expected to announce today a series of deals for the television and film entertainment industries that, among others, will see Asia as the base of the projected new series of digital showbiz enterprises.
The New York Times reporting from Los Angeles said the core principle of the Chernin …

Electric cars populate the streets but not in significant numbers and this owes to a few challenges electric cars pose, the biggest of these being battery range. Most current electric cars have batteries with a range of some 150 miles, a distance range that causes range anxiety in owners as well as potential owners.
Described as the fear that the vehicle will not reach where you are going without running out of juice, this range anxiety is what IBM is hoping to put to rest with its new …

Video is one of the most popular mediums on the Internet today and the popularity of YouTube is testament to this. One catch about video is the fact that adding advertising often results in one of two things, taking the watcher away from the video and/or disengagement by the watcher.
One innovative company seems to have cracked this dilemma with a very interesting approach to the whole issue. Typically, any purchases made as a result of a video are made via a store that links away from the …

Flexible, semi-transparent solar panels – Image via TheVerge

Solar power is the promised land for all renewable energy and sustainability proponents but so far, the technology has not quite been able to keep up with the optimism. Technologies used to create solar power generation are at best base line and can only convert into electricity a paltry 15% of the solar energy that hits the planet’s surface.
Another impediment has been the installation surfaces solar can mount on, …

Every now and again, a new startup comes along with an obvious-seeming but hitherto undone idea, and Wavii defines that sort of startup. The startup, which has been in super stealth mode for the past three years, has finally come out, is building interest, and is catching quite a number of headlines.
Started by a bunch of engineers who had formerly worked at Amazon and Microsoft, the service will attempt to go after the biggest social network in the world, but not in the way you may think. …