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Thanks to all the developers who stopped by our booth at the 25th annual Game Developer’s Conference last week in San Francisco! We had a blast seeing our old friends and meeting some new fans in person. I’m...

Thanks to all the developers who stopped by our booth at the 25th annual Game Developer’s Conference last week in San Francisco! We had a blast seeing our old friends and meeting some new fans in person. I’m...

With Google IO fast approaching and GDC just completed I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the game engines available for mobile devices, specifically for x86 based mobile devices. There are many game engine choices out...

The Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM) is a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) to speed up Android app emulation on a host machine. In combination with Android x86 emulator images provided by Intel...

After more than a decade of reviewing thousands of business software websites, I still come across too many that are missing the single most critical element to their success. In fact, I daresay the vast majority of software websites...

By now you’ve probably heard about Ultrabook and this next evolution in personal computing. Like me, you are probably curious about all of the cool things you’ve been hearing; they’re really light and thin, fast, and have longer battery life...

Dr. David Valentine, Slippery Rock University It is with the utmost pleasure, I’d like to call your attention to the Dr. David Valentine’s “Making Parallleism Nifty” video series. Dr. Valentine said at SIGCSE 2011 in Dallas that “good instructional materials...

Given the constant competitive pressure on executives to expedite product time-to-market, many developers are given tight deadlines to deliver functional software. This software is often geared for localization once the source language version is ready for release. Keeping these pressures in...

Quick note to point out that I added a few days ago the last modified date and time of files and directories in the web based remote file browser in Meshcentral.com. Some have been asking for this feature since they...

Your business cards are printed, your bag is packed, you’ve got Evernote loaded on all of your devices. It’s time to head to an industry conference such as ISV Con for a great learning experience and some quality networking time....

Driver version: 8.95. Read the rest at amd.com ...

This series of blogs describes considerations for Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors to expand their sales and channels outside their home countries. It discusses SaaS developed for businesses with more than 5 people, which is distinct from software intended...

One of the great features of the latest Intel® vPro™ technology-based clients is that it supports the encryption of communications that an IT manager would have between the management console and the vPro client.  In order to enable this capability, a developer...

I am keeping up the bug fixing and development on meshcentral.com, the remote computer monitoring and management web site. Today, I am very glad to announce that I just added RDP support to the site. You can now start a...

Summary This blog is a collection of hands-on notes on building Android ICS 4 virtualbox installer for x86  from official Google x86 virtualbox target vbox-x86-eng (included in ICS 4.0 source)  and using a Linux 2.6 kernel provided by Intel to add...

There have literally been thousands of books written on how to create a company’s marketing strategy. It can be as complicated or as straightforward as you like. To hit the ground running in getting your company’s brand out into the...

Wow… what a year for PC Gaming! The PC Gaming Alliance has just released our latest Press Release results covering PC Gaming’s latest revenue milestone now exceeding $18.6B. The in-depth details are available to PC Gaming Alliance members...

In my previous blog [Software and TV Watching evolve: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain] I mentioned how our TV viewing abilities have changed dramatically in the last few years. Starting with the VCR, then DVD...

Our free introductory webinar on social media management is now available for Intel® Software Partner Program members! If you are currently using, or planning to use, social media as part of your marketing mix to increase your customer base, this...

In the life of a project you work on, the last few weeks can be very stressful. So before I dive into those final weeks of intense coding, this is a good time for me to take a step back...

If you have just purchased and Intel(r) AMT Client and are wondering how to get started managing your new system, you can watch this short ~10 minute video on how to quickly configure Intel AMT. This video also demonstrates...

If you have either a Notebook or a Desktop equipped with Intel(R) vPro Technology and you are also working with one of it’s components, Intel(R) Active Management Technology, chances are you have the “Intel Management and Security Status” software installed...

The Intel AppUp show for developers “Show 19″: in this segment of AppUp RoundUp, Host Bob Duffy reviews, Willpower 360, an exclusive app, only available at the Intel AppUp center. Bob shows how Willpower360 leverages Intel® Advanced Vector...

Before investing valuable time and money selling to different geographic markets, you need to have a strong understanding of the various software modifications that are needed to globalize your product. With the international market presenting significant growth opportunities, small to mid-sized...

The first thing you may think about after you have purchased an Intel(r) AMT system is “Where do I start?”  Getting to “know” the MEBx* menus is probably one of the first things you might want to do.  This video...

Hi All, Raghav Darisi and I will presenting the Intel AppUp(SM) developer program, how you can bring your apps either native or HTML5 into the Intel AppUp(sm) center. we will also show you the tools and SDK offerings provided by the...

Create richer experiences for consumers and earn new revenue streams for your apps! Visit with us face-to-face to learn more about creating and selling apps for UltrabookTM devices at SXSW in Austin, TX! We’ll be there for the interactive portion...

The Intel AppUpSM Application Lab is coming to Bangalore this March!  Attend this event to understand more about how you can start building HTML5 apps for UltrabooksTM, PCs, and netbooks.  With the Intel AppUpTM encapsulator tool and Intel AppUpTM SDK APIs,...

An effective elevator pitch can break the ice in networking scenarios and used the right way, can garner new clients, customers, or investors. Working through developing an elevator pitch will give you more clarity surrounding your target audience and business...

Next week I’ll be in San Francisco hoping the weather forecast is right and we get 7 days of sun, and the reason for my stroke of luck is I’m giving a talk on creating a better gaming user experience...

I’m blogging fromthe Platform of Choice Event in Barcelona Spain.  This is an event from Intel’s Developer Relations Division designed to inform and connect with developers across a breadth of offerings for developers on Intel based devices Steve Shakespear, EU Region...

Mobile World Congress is upon us and day 1 has been busy for us at the Intel AppUp booth.  Here’s a review of what we are showing off and discussing at the AppUp booth. Optmization demo:   Our tools team is showing...

Today we are introducing Intel’s first enterprise focused SaaS offering that brings the best of Intel cloud offering ECA 360 and McAfee Cloud Security Suite product into a multi-tenant offering. The same core functionality that our on-prem product ECA...

Working with Consumer electronics and being a Techno Geek I find the evolution of our Radio and TV Viewing habits an interesting commentary on our connected world. In the early days of Radio, shows were broadcast at a certain time, and...

This will be the final post in my planned short vectorization series. Although I reserve the right to post more on vectorization in the future! In the first post on this topic, I explained that vectorization was parallelism...

At GDC 2012, I will be presenting with Ian Ni-Lewis (from Google) on best practices for writing cross-platform native Android games. This presentation will discuss some lesson we have learned creating native Android apps that run on the widest...

Last week, I was in cycle of several Android developers and partners who have needs to compile and build their own Android for Intel x86 platform from Google source repository, and read through a lot of success/unsuccessful stories.  I decided...

Hi Everyone – I hope to see some of you in a few weeks at GDC. This year I’ll be doing an Introductory Session on Security Best Practices. This is going to be a fast paced debrief...

In an ideal world, lead generation results in a sale. To get to that sale, many B2B marketers recommend approaching lead gen as building a better business partnership. What’s the best way to build that partnership? Use the skills you’ve...

Before I tell you the whole story here is a backstage clip: Behind The Scenes (Player) / (YouTube) / (Download) The series is a ’six pack’ of videos starting from the basic introduction and covering everything you need to know in order to understand...

I know I know, but I am really overly excited to go to Barcelona on Sunday for Mobile World Congress and cannot help myself and need to state as often as possible Barcelona Baby. Like Joey from Friends who was...

Mathematicians from Europe and the United States are reporting a flaw in the RSA encryption method that apparently hinges on crypto keys being created with insufficient randomness. You can read more about this story in a NY Times article by...

When using Twitter for business, you want to keep in mind that you’re building relationships. It’s a dance with people you can’t see and who may or may not end up being future customers or clients. Here are 5 ways to...

Oh boy, have to admit I did not come up with an appealing (or even catchy) headline, so added the +++ to make it more interesting – not sure if it works… Anyway, would like to give you an...

The excitement is building – there are only a few more weeks until AngelHack 2 on March 3! If you haven’t registered for the event yet, it’s filling quickly – you’ll want to hurry! It’s shaping up to...

When the semiconductor industry was turning to multicore chips and lowering clock rates, Herb Sutter wrote a seminal article entitled “The Free Lunch is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software.” Up to that point software developers relied on the...

The Intel AppUp show for developers “Show 18″: in this segment of SkypeUp, Host Rhonda Peters interviews Meghana Rao, AppUp Technical Marketing Engineer. During this segment, Rhonda chats with Meghana about some of the come issues and solutions for...

Picture yourself in ten years. You’ve been making games for a decade. You’ve been to the wars, returned with some successes, some failures (trophies and scars). But you wake up and…what is it that motivates you out of bed? The Level...

Join the Intel AppUp team for a free 1 hour webinar on the Intel AppUpTM SDK on Thursday, March 22, 2010 at 12 noon PST and learn how to create differentiated apps using In-app upgrade and In-app unlocking APIs offered...

For more social media management tips, join us for a free webinar with HootSuite on Friday, February, 17 at 11 a.m. PST. This webinar is open to Intel® Software Partner Program members in North America. Find the registration link...