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2013
October
16,
2013
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07:18 AM
America/Los_Angeles
I'm in Las Vegas this week as a guest of Tibco Software's user conference, TUCON13 - an annual event. I've been to plenty of them and they are often full of marketing razzle with a dash of dazzle but this year things were different.They were …
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2012
April
13,
2012
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05:58 AM
America/Los_Angeles
(The spectacular Oracle Arena.) It was a dark and stormy evening but it was also Bollywood Night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland and I had two tickets to see the Golden State Warriors play the Dallas Mavericks -- thanks to Tibco Software. [Vivek …
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2011
October
10,
2011
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22:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
(Pearltrees is a consulting client.)Pearltrees, a French-based curation platform, today released an iPad app that lets users easily explore the curated collections of websites created by more than 200,000 people, via a unique visual and touch …
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2010
July
29,
2010
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11:45 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The last couple of months I've been working with a very cool French startup called Pearltrees in an advisory capacity. It's part of my nascent consulting services business which helps me continue publishing and funding Silicon Valley Watcher.I'm a …
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May
12,
2010
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06:21 AM
America/Los_Angeles
I'm spending some of this week in Las Vegas at Tibco's User Conference. Tibco has been a great supporter of SVW and I like the company, it is doing some very impressive things in a market that doesn't get much media exposure.Tibco's technologies …
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2009
May
19,
2009
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04:52 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Tuesday morning Intel (an SVW sponsor) hosted a media conference introducing a new Atom microprocessor code named Pine Trail and released Moblin Version 2 Beta into the community of open source developers.There was little performance data on Pine …
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May
10,
2009
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12:16 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel (an SVW sponsor) on Monday morning (May 11) is launching its largest marketing campaign in 3 years and its first promoting the company and not a product.The "Sponsors of Tomorrow" campaign is focused on the people of Intel and will be …
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April
20,
2009
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08:26 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software (Tibco is a sponsor of SVW) has been in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years and is one of its top entrepreneurs and very well connected. Here are some notes from our conversation:- I'm a little saddened to see …
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April
14,
2009
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04:56 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel has been a long time supporter of SVW for many years. Intel has also been a pioneer in social media among large companies thanks to Ken Kaplan, Bill Kircos, Bryan Rhoads, Bill Calder, and many others at Intel.In "Intel's Social Media Story - …
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March
30,
2009
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05:20 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Intel is a sponsor of SVW]Intel today revealed impressive benchmarks for its new Nehalem Xeon 5500 server microprocessor, calling it "transformational" in terms of it's expected effect on customer's applications.The new chip represents a large jump …
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February
03,
2009
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15:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
(Tibco is a founding sponsor of SVW)Tibco Software has launched its first hardware product -- a messaging appliance that can do the work of ten servers for one-tenth the cost. Its an interesting move for Tibco and it will be interesting to see how …
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2008
April
30,
2008
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08:55 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Tibco Software is a founding sponsor of SVW and one of the top supporters of SVW--keeping it free to all readers. Its user conference TUCON 08 is on this week in San Francisco April 29 to May 2.TIBCO ActiveMatrix to Provide Predictive Service Level …
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2007
December
12,
2007
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17:13 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel is challenging modders (hobbyists who alter the standard PC) to show off their creative skills in building Intel processor-based mods for an online competition. Intel delivers the unrivaled performance and energy efficient processors that …
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October
08,
2007
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07:26 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This comes from Intel's publicist Burson-Marsteller, I haven't had a chance to check it out yet... (Intel is a sponsor of Silicon Valley Watcher.)Cool Software.com (http://coolsw.intel.com) is a forum where people -- from software developers, ISVs …
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September
19,
2007
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01:49 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Gordon Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel, is known widely for his observation that the number of transistors that can be built on a silicon chip doubles about every 2 years. This became known as Moore's Law and has been used as a way to explain …
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September
18,
2007
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15:06 PM
America/Los_Angeles
This kinda works . . . which is both weird and interesting at the same time. "Everything has changed" a short music video directed by Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest for Intel. (Hat tip: Ron Deutsch.) http://www.intel.com/go/itgetseasier/index.htm
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July
24,
2007
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04:13 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Over on the Intel blog (http://blogs.intel.com/views/ ):Kirk Skaugen, Intel vice president and Co-General Manager of the Server Products Group at Intel announced information about Intel’s new MP server platform Codenamed ‘Caneland’.* Caneland is …
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May
10,
2007
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04:17 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Intel is a sponsor of SVW} On Wednesday I went to Intel's launch of its latest Centrino chipset for notebooks. Everything, of course, is a lot faster, but what caught my eye was a new technology embedded in the chips which, although aimed …
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May
02,
2007
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00:38 AM
America/Los_Angeles
I really should spend more time with my sponsors. I spent most of Tuesday at Tibco's user conference, catching up with the the company's business strategy team and having some great conversations, and thinking I really should spend more time with my …
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April
30,
2007
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04:52 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[I should write about my loyal and very patient sponsors more often, my apologies! They make it possible for me to do what I do, which I enjoy tremendously. They are my co-pioneers in this emerging new media world.] Intel says that more than 5,000 …
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April
04,
2007
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02:31 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel's PR agency, Burson-Marsteller says that there are some misconceptions in the mainstream media about Intel's new Quad-Core microprocessor. (Intel is a sponsor of SVW). Samantha Saephan from Burson-Marsteller writes: Since the launch of the …
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March
29,
2007
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03:19 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel's new processor families are on track to deliver faster processors without consuming more power. The Penryn family will be released this year and the Nehalam family is due next year, The New York Times reports. The chips will have wires as …
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March
28,
2007
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10:47 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel (an SVW sponsor) has encouraged PC makers to go beyond the beige box for many years. Here is Intel's latest challenge to PC makers, and this time Intel is seeking help from PC users to vote and comment on a variety of PC designs.You can win …
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March
26,
2007
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04:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Intel will open a $2.5 billion wafer fabrication plant in China, the first major production facility there, according to the New York Times.Labeled Fab 68, the new plant will join just seven other plants in the world capable of producing Intel 300mm …
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March
08,
2007
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04:51 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The judge in the Intel-AMD lawsuit ordered both sides to work with a mediator to figure out how serious Intel's loss of email is, InfoWeek reports.Intel admitted recently that it had
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February
15,
2007
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07:17 AM
America/Los_Angeles
We are pleased to announce Cohn & Wolfe as a sponsor of our new sister site: New Rules Communications - reporting on the new rules in media and pr. It also marks the launch of Cohn & Wolfe's blog: Boomerang - What goes around, comes around. …
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February
11,
2007
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12:47 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The New York Times reports that on Monday Intel will demonstrate a computer chip with 80 separate cores. While the chip is not compatible with Intel’s current chips, the company said it had already begun design work on a commercial version that …
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January
27,
2007
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05:47 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Intel is an SVW sponsor.] [UPDATE: Please also see: IBM says Intel not alone in solving 45nm chip roadblock] People mistake Intel for being a microprocessor manufacturer. That's just an application of what it does best: it knows how to make the …
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January
23,
2007
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03:04 AM
America/Los_Angeles
(Intel is a sponsor of SVW) Monday's news that Sun will make Intel Xeon servers and Intel will promote Solaris shocked some observers. Sun's former CEO Scott McNealy used to say nasty things about Intel's Itanium 64-bit microprocessor, a …
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2006
December
07,
2006
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05:51 AM
America/Los_Angeles
I caused quite a stir earlier this year with my Die! Press Release Die! Die! Die! post. It came about from my frustration with the usefulness of the conventional press release. I offered some characteristics of what a new media …
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