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Intel believes it knows what developers are –and are not – looking for in mobile platforms and plans to use the knowledge to win them over as part of its long term MeeGo strategy.

Cor Blimey, the mobile chip space is heating up, as the various players carry out their own little ARM’s race to beef up on performance, mainly through the addition of more cores.

Nokia Corp.’s announcement it would be dropping MeeGo and going Windows Phone 7 caused quite a “kerfuffle” inside Intel Corp., admitted Peter Biddle, general manager of Intel’s AppUp products and services.

While Texas Instruments and Qualcomm were busy paper launching dual and quad core processors at this year’s MWC, NVIDIA seemed a step ahead, demoing what looked to be a working model of its upcoming Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor.

After Nokia Corp. very publicly distanced themselves from MeeGo development late last week, many wondered what would become of the in-development mobile OS, which was born out of a partnership between the Finnish phone maker and ubiquitous chip manufacturer Intel Corp.

At today’s big Nokia / Microsoft announcement, Nokia’s ballsy new CEO Stephen Elop dished some details about the Finnish phone maker’s plans with regard to the OS future handsets will be running. Obviously, Window Phone 7 featured heavily, however more interesting were the plans for Nokia’s own platforms.

Digital security firm McAfee says the number of malicious software attacks rose by 46% last year and that hackers have started zoning in on mobile phones – specifically the popular Android and iOS platforms.

The app store battle that used to rage between Apple Inc. and Google Inc. appears to have finally cooled down, with both parties seemingly happy that they have a huge enough catalogue of apps to satisfy even the most voracious smart phone user. However, some of the app distribution platforms on other systems leave a lot to be desired.

Just as Intel’s latest and greatest chips, the so-called “Sandy Bridge” lineup has only just starting finding its way into new machines, and today Intel has released an advisory that a problem with the chip’s SATA controller could degrade transfer speeds over time.

Business News Americas | January 28, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski The Latin America division of US chip manufacturer Intel (NYSE: INTC) plans to shuffle more budget toward innovation efforts this …

San Jose based Networking firm Netgear was out in force at this year’s CES show in Las Vegas, showing off a plethora of products it says will help push towards a fully internet enabled home, where content can move seamlessly from one device to another.

A little device which created a rather big buzz at this year’s CES was the new Mobile Gaming PC from Razer – dubbed the “Switchblade” – based on Intel’s Atom chipset.

SanDisk | January 5, 2011 | Business Wire LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that its 32 gigabyte (GB)1 and 64GB SanDisk® …