Introducing the Intel Atom Developer Challenge
My name is Tonya Bowes and I am managing the Intel Atom Developer Challenge. I’ll be posting here about updates to the challenge, milestones, prizes, and cool stories that develop along the way. I decided to use this first post for a broad overview. The challenge is all about recognizing and rewarding you for cool components and applications that change the user experience on netbooks. To be eligible for prizes in 2009, you can submit your entry now through December 14, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. PDT. read more

Highlights from IDF 2009- San Francisco, CA
IDF San Francisco 2009- Click on the below link to find out highlights from this year’s IDF event. Inside link also includes information on resources for each day, including keynote webcasts, content blog, announcements & press releases and more! IDF Highlights Enroll in Intel Software Partner Program today and learn how the program can help you deliver innovative solutions to meet your users' demands. Learn More

Want better performance on a Netbook?
Optimize your software for power-efficiency with the help of our new Intel® Atom™ technology area. Looking into developing and selling your app? Join the new Intel® Atom Developer Program now! Enroll in Intel Software Partner Program today and learn how the program can help you deliver innovative solutions to meet your users' demands. Learn More.

Simulating do-nothing mutexes -- null_mutex and null_rw_mutex
Early this year a TBB user requested in the forum for the feature that simulates mutexes that do nothing. The user wrote “Lot of times, when we do template meta programming, we need to provide some containers with no mutex (tbb containers) and some containers with a tbb Mutex...[snip]... If we can have a NullMutex feature ... it would be easy to handle such situations.” (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-threading-building-blocks/topic/63003/). We agreed and thought the idea made sense, and added null_mutex and null_rw_mutex to Intel® Threading Building Blocks's mutex

How to Shine in a Crowded Field: LinuxCon Keynote by Dirk Hohndel
At the Linux Foundation LinuxCon event, Dirk Hohndel gave a keynote to a packed room about what it takes for open source companies to shine in the crowded market for technology products. Dirk says that it takes four things to succeed in this crowded market of software and the devices that run the software, and you really need to have all of them rig