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"Turbo Boost basically measures the power going into the chip, and as long as that power's under a certain threshold for a predetermined period of time, it'll let one or more cores, including the graphics cores, accelerate to over their clock speed and then shut off," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld...

"It's good to say you may have some samples working in a lab somewhere, but it's a whole different story to put technologies like these into production," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "It takes three to five years for a technology to ...

"Acer has been working on mobile designs for at least five years," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld Acer's known for offering low-cost PCs and laptops, and it might have to offer its tablets at the lower end as well, Enderle speculated....

"We've been looking for a good point-to-point wireless interconnect for some time," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "Bluetooth hasn't received wide adoption across all categories so there's a big effort to go on WiFi because it's the de facto wireless standard in the home."

"Why did the IEEE even let this paper be presented?" asked Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat. "I think this proves that not only the participants but also the experimenter should be candidates for next year's Darwin Awards," he told TechNewsWorld The Darwin ...

"They're talking about x86 technology, which isn't necessarily on par in power consumption with ARM technology, and ARM technology isn't standing still," Jim McGregor, chief technology analyst at In-Stat, pointed out "The Snapdragon and other ARM products won't be single-core ...

"Canonical's flailing around in the dark," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told LinuxInsider. "It understands the necessity of having content and apps, but you have to have the momentum. You have to have the solution, the devices, the platform, and most of all, the content."

"Despite the business market's not upgrading to the next generation of Windows as quickly as Microsoft would like, consumer PCs start selling on Day One with the next-generation operating system," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "I can understand Microsoft's putting the suite on Windows 7 and Vista."

"It's easy to make pie-in-the-sky predictions and say, 'We're going to have this, we're going to have that, and oh yeah, world peace is there too,' and everyone's happy," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "If CEOs want to be seen as visi...

However, it may take more than this redesign to boost Twitter's advertising in the view of Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with In-Stat "I don't think it will have a great impact for Twitter's advertising potential, simply because there are too many ways for people t...

"Intel's integrating the graphics processing unit into the Sandy Bridge and has added a lot of multimedia accelerators to the graphics accelerator," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld The processor has a "very cool" design, McGregor said....

"I've always liked the Palm operating system, but in today's market, it really comes down to what operating systems app developers are developing for, and that's just a handful -- Apple, RIM (Research In Motion), Symbian in Europe and Android," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "The rest of them don't really matter that much anymore."

As more and more devices get connected to the Internet, mobile devices face the same security problems as PCs will, or worse, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times "The mobile environment's wide open, and Intel's trying to break into t...

Mobile apps are the key driver for sales of mobile devices ranging from smartphones to tablets, and some, like Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist for In-Stat, think mobile apps will largely replace online and computer-based apps at some point "The biggest innovation out...

"I think you have to assume that they are referring to broadcast TV, but I would point you to Qualcomm's FLO, which has struggled in the U.S.," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "Don't get me wrong -- broadcast TV on mobile devices is ...

Amazon has actually indicated that it is "not interested in building another tablet, which is rapidly becoming a crowded market," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with In-Stat, pointed out Rather, "Amazon seems content building a device with limited functionality and...

"I really don't know what HP is doing with the webOS," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "It wouldn't talk to me about its strategy with that platform. There are rumors floating about that it's thinking of bringing back the Slate now." D...

"As we look at new devices accessing the Web -- the iPad, smartphones, and now there's talk about putting 3G on mobile game consoles -- browser technology needs to be more than an experience you can just run on your PC," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, pointed out...

While it may be tempting to view Cisco's entry as an attempt to take on Apple's wildly successful iPad, that's actually not the case, Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with In-Stat, told LinuxInsider "Cisco is not trying to compete with Apple," McGregor explained. "The...

"Now, the PC will have to redefine its value, because the vast majority of the standard things we do for mainstream computing involve the Internet and don't require the PC anymore," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, pointed out "Mobile apps, which are chang...