Intel laptop boss to make Ultrabooks context savvy

Pretty scary stuff!

I remember an old joke saying that in Soviet Russia you were not watching TV, it was the TV watching you. Now in addition of TV, we have to keep an eye on those pesky laptops snitching on us.

"...Ultrabooks to become fully context aware"

Oooh errr!

Is that like the new Apple Retina Display?

This is for people who use their ultrabooks outside

I find it amazing how many people think GPS always knows where you are. To work with any decent consistency GPS needs to have a clear view of the sky. It's not going to locate you when you are in an office building unless you are close to the window. Even then it's touch and go. It won't work on the ground floor of a normal house or in a block of flats. For city-dwellers it's pretty rubbish.

Phones can get away with combining cell ID with where GPS last saw you to give something of an estimate but most of the decision-makes who think GPS is magic do so because their car Sat-Nav does a good job.

These work by comparing a map to wheel sensors (often the ABS) and rarely resort to GPS, even then cars tend to have a clear view of the sky.

Mapping wi-fi is a much better solution for laptops.

Simon

Credibility ?

I'm hardly a fashionista.

Nor terribly conservative.

But there is no fecking way I am buying anything (other than a latte) from somebody dressed like that.

Never trust a guy named "Mooly"

Nuff said.