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EDITORIAL : The middle ground—is there one or many?

Techwatch February 3rd 2010

When Steve Jobs presented the iPad, he set up the premise that we have smart phones, and we have laptops, and there is a gap between them that should be filled. As he made his presentation, I thought, I just saw this presentation a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. Jen-Hsun Huang did it at CES. Huang said the exact same things, and showed tablets that would fit in the middle. And then I thought about Intel, who also wanted to fill the perceived middle. Intel called it a mobile Internet device—MID. Intel wasn’t successful in creating that category, but a lot of interesting products were created that were neither mobile phones nor PCs. We called them gadgets, and now Intel has also adopted that term. And, some of those gadgets are tablets. Tablets, of course, aren’t new. We first started talking about them in 1970, and the first commercial product was shown in 1989, when GRID computer introduced the pen-based GRIDpad, 12 years before the Windows XP tablet, and four years before the Newton. A whole community was built up around the notion of a touch sensitive, large-screen mobile device, but no general-purpose usage model could be found …

Are you a Social Networking Expert? Be sure to keep your Networking Edge

Posted by Webmaster on January 17th 2010 | Discuss (0)
Categories: In the News

Everyone considers themselves an expert on Social Networking and in a sense that is true. Social Networking is about people and the myriad ways in which they're using the Internet to connect for business, education, and pleasure. Jon Peddie's latest report "The Social Web and its Implications", by industry …

First thoughts on CES and tablets

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 10th 2010 | Discuss (1)
Categories: Blogs, The Market

CES has dawned bright and clear. The crowds have come and there is interest in buying – or at least that’s how it’s looking now. Plenty of news is coming out of CES, but in the PC world, tablets are consuming the attention of the buyers in the aisles …

Analysts Speculate on Larrabee flap

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: In the News

Jon Peddie weighs in on the Larrabee announcement from Intel. Jon Peddie figured Intel looked at the flattening growth numbers for discrete GPUs and decided Larrabee didn't have what it takes to compete in a tightening market. But he's less sure if Intel will regroup and make a second …

Intel will never buy Nvidia

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: In the News

Industry analyst John Peddie has dismissed reports of Intel buying Nvidia as "naïve speculation." According to Peddie, Intel plans to design a "whole family" of Larrabee chips based on X86 architecture. Considering the recent FTC filing and Nvidia siding with the FTC, this rumour is pretty well stomped out. …

Henry Choy Joins ActiveVideo Networks

Posted by Webmaster on December 18th 2009 | Permalink
Categories: In the News

Henry Choy, highly regarded as a thought leader in the consumer electronics industry for more than 20 years, has joined ActiveVideo Networks(TM) as Vice President, Business Development, the company announced today. Among many other feats, Henry Choy served as an analyst for Jon Peddie Research.