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The Intel AppUp center, an app store for netbooks, is now available to consumers in the UK. AppUp, first announced in September at IDF, includes both free and paid apps for social networking, entertainment, gaming and productivity, and is the first and only app store for netbooks to be made available for consumers in the UK and Europe. The service is being made available by Dixons Retail plc through store fronts for Curry and PC World.





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Intel announced the opening of the Intel Romania Software Development Center today. The Intel Romania Software Development Center represents a multi-million Euro investment for the Intel Software and Services Group. Read more about this in the full news story.





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As the world leader in computing innovation, it’s only natural that Intel is part of an effort to apply technology leadership, specifically cloud services, to scale humanitarian efforts. In fact, at the NetHope Global Summit last week, Intel and other industry, non-profit and government leaders announced significant contributions to leverage innovation for humanitarian and environmental benefits. Learn more about cloud computing in the humanitarian world.





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Today, Intel announced significant upgrades to its high-end software development products, which deliver improved parallel performance and ease-of-use. Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2011 combines enhanced optimizing compilers, error checkers and performance profilers into a single test suite that enables developers to write faster, more reliable and secure code on Windows and Linux. Intel® Cluster Studio 2011 incorporates new compilers and libraries with an MPI profiler to improve cluster performance. More information on these and other enhancements can be found on the Intel Software Blog.





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Intel Survey of Teens Intends to Spark Debate about Math and Science Confidence Versus Performance

 

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• A vast majority of American teens are confident in their own math and science abilities, but they generally agree there is a math and science crisis in the United States, suggesting they may not feel personally responsible for the problem.
• Teens primarily attribute poor confidence in the United States’ math and science abilities to a lack of work ethic and discipline, not a lack of school funding or resources.
• Those surveyed understand that math and science are important to their futures and they expressed interest in these subjects, indicating that poor performance on international assessments is not a result of apathy or lack of interest.

 


 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2010 – Despite high personal confidence in math and science, American teenagers are not confident in their country’s ability to compete in these subjects, a new survey released today suggests. The findings reveal that teens, as individuals, may not feel a part of what they acknowledge is a math and science problem plaguing the country -- a problem illustrated by the United States’ poor performance on global rankings.

 

The teens surveyed primarily attributed their minimal confidence in our national math and science abilities to a lack of hard work and discipline, but not a lack of school funding or resources. This may suggest they need to be challenged more in the classroom. Yet, the silver lining is that, contrary to perceptions that American teenagers are apathetic about math and science, students highly value the importance of these subjects and understand the role of math and science to their futures.

 

This survey of 1,000 American teens was commissioned by Intel Corporation to offer a student perspective on the complex issues facing American education today and to spark a debate about how best to challenge American teens to excel in math and science. Intel, as the sponsor of two of the world’s largest, most prestigious pre-college science competitions, recognizes math and science as critical foundations for innovation.

 

Shelly Esque, vice president of Intel’s Corporate Affairs Group, said: “These findings raise a lot of questions. Are teens overconfident? Or is it that they are not being challenged enough? At Intel, we believe teens are telling us we need to raise the bar for American students through world-class education standards in every state. And that we need innovative programs that celebrate not just “making the grade,” but taking the challenging courses that will prepare our students for the careers of the future.”

 

The Results:

• American teens understand the importance of math and science education.
  
  • 99 percent of teens believe it is important to be good at math and science.
  • 58 percent aspire to pursue a math- or science-related career.
• Despite ranking 21st out of 30 in science and 25th out of 30 in math literacy1 among students from developed countries, 85 percent of American teens are confident in their own math and science abilities.
• Despite high personal confidence, American teens are not confident in the United States’ ability to compete in math and science.
  
  
  • When asked which country is best at math and science today, 90 percent selected a choice other than the United States, with 67 percent choosing Japan or China.
• American teens primarily blame a lack of work ethic and discipline as reasons why other countries are ahead of the United States in math and science.
  
  
  • 51 percent of teens who are not confident in the United States’ math and science abilities believe this is because Americans do not work hard enough.
  • 44 percent of those who do not think the United States is the best at math and science blame a lack of discipline.
• Just a third of teens blame lack of funding or school emphasis for poor math and science abilities in the United States.

 

This survey of U.S. teenagers was conducted online between Sept. 24 and 28, 2010 by Penn Schoen Berland on behalf of Intel. Participants included 1,000 teenagers ages 13 to 18. Demographics were aligned as closely as possible to U.S. Census data. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percent.

 

The Intel Education Initiative

Over the past decade alone, Intel has invested over $1 billion and Intel employees have donated close to 3 million hours toward improving education in more than 60 countries. To learn more, visit www.intel.com/newsroom/education. To join Intel's community of people sharing their stories with the hope of becoming a catalyst for action and a voice for change in global education, visit www.inspiredbyeducation.com. To view ongoing updates, join the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/InspiredByEducation and follow Twitter updates at www.twitter.com/intelinspire.

 

 



Teens understand that math and science are important to their futures and they express interest in these subjects.




A vast majority of U.S. teens are confident in their own math and science abilities, but they generally agree that there’s a math and science crisis in the U.S.




Japan and China, not the U.S., are perceived by American teens as the best countries for math and science.


 


 


About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

 

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

 

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1 Source: Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006





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A new survey of 1,000 American teens revealed that despite high personal confidence in math and science, American teens are not confident in their country’s ability to compete in these subjects. The survey, commissioned by Intel, suggests that teens, as individuals, may not feel a part of what they acknowledge is a math and science problem plaguing the country; a problem that is illustrated by the U.S.’ poor performance on global rankings. Now we want to hear from you – are you confident in America’s math and science abilities? Head to Inspire and take our survey.





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Today, Intel, along with Cakewalk and OurStage.com, announced the Urban, Latin and Singer-Songwriter genre winners of its "Superstars" Competition. The competition invited artists to submit original music and the submitted tracks were judged by fans of the Intel Facebook page. The top five ranked artists won Intel® Core™ processor-based PCs, Cakewalk SONAR Producer Software, V-Studio 100 and V-Studio 20 recording solutions. The top 20 in each of the 6 genres advance to the final round of competition, which runs through December, for a chance to win $10,000. Check out our Facebook page for more information and to vote.





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With the release of the MeeGo* 1.1 software development kit (SDK) today, the Intel AppUpSM Developer Program introduced a MeeGo portal on the Intel AppUpSM center and associated storefronts. Intel AppUp Developer Program is committed to helping developers be successful on MeeGo, which was the result of merging the Moblin and Maemo platforms. In preparation for the official launch of MeeGo-supported applications in 2011, Intel is inviting application developers to download the MeeGo 1.1 SDK and visit the AppUp developer site for MeeGo to get started.





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Integrated Products Drive Next Generation Digital Signage Devices

 

Tokyo, November 10, 2010 - Intel Corporation (Intel; NASDAQ: INTC) Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft; NASDAQ: MSFT) and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) t today announced that the companies will enter into a strategic relationship to provide an integrated digital signage offering for the global market, including Japan.  This collaboration will result in an optimized digital signage platform that addresses the retail and digital signage market segment’s need for a more streamlined, high performance and highly reliable solution that supports digital content, interactivity, intelligence and lifecycle management.

 

In January 2010, Intel and Microsoft announced a strategic relationship to develop and promote a validated platform for intelligent digital signage applications. NEC will integrate solutions and services including content management and media distribution with the digital signage platform based on the Intel® Core™ i5/i7 processor running Windows Embedded Standard 7. The companies have discussed collaboration in the areas of hardware, software, system integration and services.

 

NEC’s joining this alliance will further promote the concept of intelligent digital signage and embody next generation digital signage products. This includes a strategic cloud computing collaboration, which is intended to eventually increase alignment between NEC, Intel and Microsoft.

 

“Interactive and intuitive digital signage that leverages cloud based services presents a tremendous opportunity for retailers to greatly enhance the customer experience,” said Greg Buzek, president of IHL Group.  “By taking advantage of innovations being developed by technology leaders, OEMs can produce more streamlined and reliable digital signage solutions that will drive in-store sales through targeted, personal and effective customer connections”.

 

The main emphasis of this proposed collaboration is as follows:

 

1. Collaboration of new control devices and displays based on Intel® architecture

• NEC will enrich its product portfolio by adding a newly developed controller module and display specialized for digital signage based on the Open Pluggable Specification (OPS), Intel’s initiative to standardize the design and development of digital signs.
• These products support the development of low cost, high quality and highly reliable digital signage solutions.

 

 

2. Collaboration to develop software applications running Windows Embedded Standard 7 with Windows 7 technologies

• The collaboration utilizes Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 technology innovations through Windows Embedded Standard 7. These include Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Touch and Windows Flip 3D navigation for multigesture touch interfaces and context-aware applications.
• Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for streamlined connectivity; and smart power-management APIs.

 

3. Audience Measurement Solutions

• NEC will enhance its audience measurement solutions by increasing accuracy of its state of the art age and gender recognition technology.
• The use of business intelligence maintained in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database software provides more flexibility to create visual analysis of collected data.
• Intel® Core™ i5/i7 processors and Microsoft Windows 7 technology within Windows Embedded Standard 7 enable NEC to develop the controller capable of managing digital signage software and audience measurement software in a single board.

 

4. Upgrades NEC’s operation management functions

• New remote management functions by Intel® Active Management Technology such as power management and software upgrading of displays and controllers.
• New efficient system to provide online controller management, OS updating, software updating, asset management and others by operating the management software.

 

“This alliance is about innovating and collaborating in the growing the global digital signage market to drive additional benefits to our joint customers,” said Masaru Takaishi, General Manager of Carrier and Media Service Solutions Division at NEC.  “NEC will empower the products and services to provide innovative digital signage solutions by leveraging our solution, expertise, experience in deployment, product technologies and power to cultivate the global market with Intel and Microsoft.”

 

“The proposed strategic partnership between Microsoft, NEC, and Intel is another step forward for the digital signage industry by helping to ease the path for OEMs to quickly bring innovative products to market,” said Barb Edson, senior director of marketing for the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft. “With cloud computing services and the optimized digital signage platform built on Windows Embedded Standard 7, the future of digital signage is here today to empower retailers.”

 

“This alliance is a fundamental component to easing the fragmented digital signage industry as it exists now,” said Jose Avalos, director of retail and digital signage at Intel. “By developing digital signage devices in accordance with Intel’s Open Pluggable Specification, companies such as NEC will be able to make digital signage experiences everywhere more intelligent, interactive and connected.”

 

The new products and solutions under this alliance will be exhibited at “iExpo 2010”, NEC’s private show on November 11, 2010 in Tokyo.

 


About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

 

About Intel

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

 

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.  For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

 

NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. ©2010 NEC Corporation.

 

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12, 2010 –Intel Corporation today announced that its board of directors has approved a 15 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to 18 cents per share (72 cents per share on an annual basis), beginning with the dividend that will be declared in the first quarter of 2011.

 

“Intel remains on track to have our best year ever and we continue to generate strong cash flows,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “Our ongoing operational performance and confidence in our business going forward provide the ability to return more cash to shareholders.”

 

Intel began paying a cash dividend in 1992 and has paid out approximately $20 billion to its shareholders in dividends. Intel cash dividends for the first through third quarters of 2010 total approximately $2.6 billion.

 


About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

 

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• Dividend declarations and the dividend rate are at the discretion of Intel's board of directors, and plans for future dividends may be revised by the board. Intel's dividend program could be affected by changes in Intel's operating results, its capital spending programs, changes in its cash flows and changes in the tax laws, as well as by the level and timing of acquisition and investment activity.
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A detailed discussion of these and other factors that could affect Intel’s results is included in Intel’s SEC filings, including the report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 25, 2010.

 

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