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- Can open source kick-start the hardware hobbyist market?
- This is a different support model – it's community oriented support. To really allow us to reach a lot more people this is not going to be a TI product. It's going under the name Digi-key." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: hobbyist, electronics, texas instruments inc., hardware, open source, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division
- Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...
- Tags: power management, texas instruments inc., heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- Texas Instruments strives to make power management more intuitive, deep within its processors
- Before I get into the guts of this post, a special thank-you to the team at Texas Instruments (Bill Krenik, CTO of the wireless business unit, and Dave Freeman, Texas Instruments Fellow, Analog & Digital Power Control Products) who were patient enough to brief me weeks and weeks and weeks...
- Tags: processor, power management, texas instruments inc., heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Could robots become the open source hardware target?
- Most of you probably just glanced at yesterday's post about Texas Instruments supporting open source with its new OMAP chips, and if so you probably missed an important target market. Robots. (Picture from Willowgarage.com) The age of homebrew robotics has arrived. As with computing...
- Tags: robotics, texas instruments inc., hardware, quantity, robots, open source, emerging technologies, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- TI targets Linux and open source with new OMAP chips
- TI targets Linux and open source with new OMAP chipsPerfect example: Nokia N800/810My Nokia N95 and N800 (same innards as N810 sans GPS) share the same [url=http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?contentId=4671&navigationId=11990&templateId=6123]TI OMAP multi-core chip set[/url].The N95 runs Symbian S60.The N800 runs Internet Tablet OS 2008 (Debian-based Linux).These TI OMAP ARM processors will fuel the...
- Tags: ultramobile pcs (umpcs), internet, operating systems, processors, open source, chip, texas instruments inc., nokia corp., ti omap, ultramobile pc, linux
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- TI targets Linux and open source with new OMAP chips
- Texas Instruments is seeking open source developers with its new line of OMAP35x chips, with enhanced support for Linux in mobile and embedded applications. Kevin Hawkins, marketing manager for OMAP application processors, said "Open source isn't new to TI. We are being more vocal about it now, more...
- Tags: texas instruments inc., chip, open source, linux, operating systems, software, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Texas Instruments joins Linux Foundation for mobile Linux
- Texas Instruments joins Linux Foundation for mobile LinuxDestinationI have no doubts that Linux will conquer this market, as well as the desktop market. In the end, the current monoculture will lose the fight against the virtual diseases viruses and the bad guys criminals.Not only is Linux better structured to face...
- Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, linux, texas instruments inc., mobile linux, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Texas Instruments joins Linux Foundation for mobile Linux
- Texas Instruments has become an official member of the Linux Foundation, with mobility expert Eric Thomas joining the group's board. (This 2006 phone from Imcosys of Switzerland ran mobile Linux with a TI chip. From Ubergizmo.) Thomas was elected to the board yesterday alongside Larry Augustin and...
- Tags: mobile, texas instruments inc., mobile linux, linux, unix, operating systems, open source, software, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Here's TI-powered Google Android UI: but notice something missing?
- From the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Engadget posts a gallery of an anonymous handset running Google Android via Texas Instrument chip under the hood. Prototype is running OMAP 3430 at 500 MHz. Now take a look at the glare-infused...
- Tags: google inc., texas instruments inc., team management, cellular phones, semiconductors, management, consumer electronics, personal technology, hardware, russell shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Applying the transparency taste test
- Last week I was in Berlin as the guest of SAP and Transparency International. For those that are unfamiliar, TI is a pressure group that addresses issues around corruption. It operates in some of the most difficult parts of the world. It tends to focus on the governmental factors impacting...
- Tags: software, tax, industry, texas instruments inc., cisco systems inc., reality, tools & techniques, taxes, strategy, management, financial planning, finance, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Network Appliance: U.S. enterprise spending on the wane
- Network Appliance, a leading network attached storage company, says U.S. enterprise spending among its top 22 largest commercial accounts is waning. However, the company is navigating the slowdown well. The company reported its second quarter results on Wednesday and they were solid. The company reported net income of $83.8...
- Tags: federal government, network appliance inc., financial service, texas instruments inc., storage, hardware, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality
- SonoSite, Inc. is leading in the race to make medical imaging devices smaller and more portable. Its lightweight, hand-carried, point-of-care ultrasound products enable clinicians to deliver safer, better, faster care, right at the patient bedside. For its latest product, SonoSite M-Turbo system, the company wanted to maintain rapid boot-up time...
- Tags: medical imaging, sonosite inc., medical device, texas instruments inc., microsoft corp., clinician, microsoft windows, healthcare, operating systems, software
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- TiX Now (xpi)
- It can stop waiting timer of rapidshare and get direct download links from nhacso.net, tialia.com, etc and can solve the MegaUpload full-download-slots problem. Just very simple: Install the extension and click on the T icon in status bar at the right-bottom corner. Direct-link will be saved to your clipboard or...
- Tags: texas instruments inc.
- Software downloads 2007-09-28
- Nanotechnology leads to better bone implants
- A team of U.S. researchers has found a new and inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating for titanium surfaces used in bone implants. Their nanowire scaffolds can be used 'to create more effective surfaces for hip replacement, dental reconstruction and vascular stenting.' As said the lead researcher, 'We can...
- Tags: researcher, texas instruments inc., nanotechnology, roland piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- 3G: Are we there yet?
- Ericsson and Texas Instruments said Monday that they are teaming up to develop custom technology and chips for 3G devices. My reaction--other than I'm overwhelmed with the acronyms in the statement--is this: How long do we have to hear about 3G? So far the answer seems to be at...
- Tags: wired & wireless, telecommunications, mobile, hardware infrastructure, general
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- What happened to HP calculators?
- What happened to HP calculators?Back to the FutureBelieve it or not, I just got my physics major son a slide rule.It seems that the calculators now have enough symbolic-math capability and storage that his profs are banning them from exams (/me recalls the hot debates 35 years ago regarding the...
- Tags: calculator, hewlett-packard co., texas instruments inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- What happened to HP calculators?
- I have to go buy a new calculator for my combinatorics class, as well as for the physics classes I'm teaching next year. While my old HP 48G still works, it lacks the connectivity options I need for in-class demos and it's painfully slow. To HP's credit, it...
- Tags: education technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Putting HD video on your phone
- Putting HD video on your phoneI really don't get it.Are there really that many people that want to watch ANYTHING on a 2 or 3 inch screen in their PHONE?I suppose, heck people bought pet rocks. Sigh...HD video on a PHONE?I'm right along with No Axe To Grind on...
- Tags: telecom & utilities, texas instruments inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Here's why TI's mobile video projector just might succeed
- Here's why TI's mobile video projector just might succeedWait!Hang on a sec--if cell phones can project video on a wall, how will RIAA be able to charge per eyeball? Clearly, they'll have nip this in the bud--it is obviously a "public presentation", which is prohibited.The RIAA is for music.Get...
- Tags: corporate communications, riaa, video, texas instruments inc., mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Here's why TI's mobile video projector just might succeed
- Texas Instruments is showing its digital light processing DLP "pico" projector at CTIA. This is a tiny movie projector that can fit inside a cell phone. The goal of this unreleased device is to substantially increase the user experience of watching video on a cellphone. ...
- Tags: cellular phones, mobile marketing, video, texas instruments inc., handset, cell phone
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
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