With the IT industry apparently recovered from the downturn of recent years, Intel Corp. will spend its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) talking about what it considers technology's next era: increasing mobility, the digital home, and the "tera era" of large data sets and complex applications, executives said Monday.
Intel will work more with hardware makers to design smaller computers and mobile devices that will be linked via wireless technology, the chip maker said Feb. 27.
Both Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have upped the ante in the mobile applications development field. Microsoft launched Windows XP Embedded OS, while Sun touted the peer-to-peer capabilities of its Project Jxta running on Sun