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Intel’s SD-Sized computer and the question of power

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There’s something thrilling and ‘living in the future’ with Intel’s announcement of Edison, a computer with Wi-Fi built into the form factor of an SD card at CES (TNW and others). I suspect the team behind Raspberry Pi are pouring over the specs and capabilities this morning to assess the weaknesses and strengths, but there’s something that caught my eye about the Edison. Where’s the power source? It’s all very well having “Pentium-class computing” in this small form factor, but the power requirements of wearable tech coupled with a need for multiple days between charge (at a minimum) are just as

Why your web app will never be fast enough

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In my day it was ‘compiled vs translated’ but the modern programmer, especially on smartphones, has to consider native vs web apps – even more relevant with the release of a Firefox OS powered smartphone. So, timely reading from Drew Craford, stating not just the argument, but evidence, links, ad research on the subject regarding the state of play today, and tomorrow: You’ll see benchmarks, you’ll hear from experts, you’ll even read honest-to-God journal papers on point.  There are–and this is not a joke–over 100 citations in this blog post. I’m not going to guarantee that this article will convince you, nor even

Mid Moves Podcast

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You may recall during January I spent a week travelling with a number of Intel based Mobile Internet Devices (MID). Along with three other bloggers, the Mid Moves project proved to be a substantial hit… so much so that there’ll be a replay during SXSW interactive. One thing we did do as a team was record a podcast at the end of our tour, which is now live. In it myself, Nicole Simon, Jenn Lee and Steve Paine discuss MID’s, look back at the tour, and talk about the future of the devices. [audio:http://www.midmoves.com/downloads/midmoves1.MP3] Show Notes – MP3 File

Touring with Intel, the Mid Moves Project

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Just after Le Web this year, Steve Paine approached me and asked if I’d be interested in joining the Mid Moves team, where a number of bloggers take some new Intel based Mobile Internet Devices out and about to see what they can do. So Nicole Simon is going to be all business like, Jenn Lee is going on a theme park tour of the US and Chippy is going on a multi-country tour around Europe. And me? As usual I wanted to do something a little bit different. There’s less of a geographical tour to my trip, I’m going