Ich Bin Ein Berliner! What’s Intel Bringing to WIPJam Next Week?
Berlin is the mobile place to be for WIP in June:
- Droidcon last week (technically we were still in May)
- MLOVE ConFestival on the 23-25 of June
- And of course next week WIP's headquarters move to Berlin for a week, as Carlo comes over from the US to join me for Mobile Monday Berlin and our WIPJam at IT Profits/LinuxTag on the 9th! (There's still plenty of time to register and get your free tickets, so come join us!)
In addition to the Android App Store competition, Droidcon was also full of cool presentations (all available here) and I was able to interview Kerstin Monzel and Jonas Kollberg from Intel, who presented at the event and will be at the WIPJam next week, too.
While California was abuzz with the Google TV announcement, and Intel powered set top boxes, we chatted more about the mobile device side of things.
WIP: Judging by the warm tweets welcoming Quake running at 120fps on Moorestown... Your presentation at Droidcon was quite popular! What was it about? [I had to admit at this point being in a different room during Jonas's presentation... embarassing!]
We gave a brief overview of Intel’s involvement with software, and then went went over the impact and benefits of the Intel Atom Microarchitecture product family, and finally reviewed MeeGo..
WIP: I have to say that your involvement in software in the past year seems to have increased dramatically. What is this about?
In order to create innovative, premium quality products, hardware and software vendors need to work in close cooperation. Software developers play a key role in this.
Intel identified this cooperation between hardware and software as a critical factor in the success of innovative products. This prompted Intel to establish the Intel Software & Services Group (SSG) in 1995. SSG connects Intel to the worldwide software community.
While SSG collectively works on a broad range of software-related areas, its priorities in 2010 include: Intel’s move into new growth areas, including handheld/mobile Internet devices, smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle-infotainment (IVI) and other embedded devices powered by Intel Atom processors; the shift to visual computing; and multi-core software design (also known as parallel programming) with the company’s Intel Core and Intel Xeon brands. In addition, virtualization, manageability and worldwide academic, university and developer training and partnering are key areas for the group.
WIP : And by the sounds of it open source will play a big role in this. How are things doing with MeeGo?
We just announced the project release of MeeGo v1.0. This release provides developers with a stable core foundation for application development and a rich user experience for Netbooks. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is the first to appear, with the development of the MeeGo Handset user experience moving into the open in June.
This Linux-based platform will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems
WIP : At the WIPJam next week, you will be talking about different devices and form factors. Netbooks have been the craze, now iPad is bringing the tablet form factor in the spotlight? Do you think it's an either / or world or is there space for both?
There definitely is space for both, and the Intel AppUp Center will be supporting both device types in the future.
WIP : Will you be bringing a few toys to WIPJam next week? Will we see a Moorestown device at IT Profits?
Absolutely! We will be coming with a few netbooks and an Aava smartphone with a Moorestown processor! Watch out for the Quake demo!
(or if we're lucky for the Appup appstore running on a Meego phone! Or the Android variant thereof ? =>)