CinemaNow’s movie library is about to get a bit larger and a good deal sharper, thanks to a new deal with Intel. Yesterday, the video on-demand service announced that it’s now offering a slate of 1080p HD movies for the first time, available on PCs packing a second generation Intel Core CPU. According to the company, “several hundred” new releases and other popular films from 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. have already been added to its library, in addition to the 15,000 movies and TV shows already on file

If you are looking for a new desktop to replace your ageing one, then perhaps an all-in-one solution that is so in vogue these days might be right up your alley. We’re talking about the Dell Inspiron One 2320 desktop here, where it has been dubbed by Dell to be the “ultimate ‘stay-connected’ all-in-one desktop” which delivers the latest in entertainment and interactive experiences for your whole family. It doesn’t matter if you’re fighting with the dog to prevent him from eating your homework, hence finishing it up on computer, or to keep track of household expenses and to prevent debt, the Dell Inspiron One 2320 is said to offer a little bit of something for everybody. I must say that it looks pretty much like any other all-in-one machine out there, so the differentiating factor ought to be the kind of hardware that is implemented underneath the hood.

Intel’s chips are finally going to start showing up in phones next year, and Ultrabooks are due soon, but it looks like the world’s top chip maker’s making a push in mobile software, too. Intel just bought Isreal-based mapping software company Telmap for $300 to $350 million. More??

The future of Meego has become a little clearer this morning, now that the Linux Foundation has announced that it’ll be replaced with Tizen — a new Linux -based, open-source OS. Samsung and Intel have been tapped to lead the development of the platform, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation — a consortium of companies including Panasonic Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo and SK Telecom, among others. According to its stewards, Tizen will support HTML5- and WAC-based apps and will be designed to run across a wide spectrum of devices, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-car infotainment systems. The MeeGo project, for its part, already seems to be on board with the initiative, promising to “make sure that users of MeeGo can easily transition to Tizen,” while assisting MeeGo developers, as well.

The Intel Developer Forum showcases the near-threshold voltage processor. Photo: Intel Researchers at Intel debuted an experimental processor at the company’s developer forum this week, which could lead to devices with significantly lower energy consumption. The chip — codenamed “Claremont” — is known as a near-threshold voltage processor, which allows transistors to operate at super-low, near “threshold” voltages to increase efficiency and decrease energy consumption