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First thoughts on CES and tablets

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 10th 2010 | Permalink
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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 as well as reporters, and we’re pretty fascinated as well. For the past couple of years, Amazon and Sony have helped make a convincing case for the eBook as people are not only buying the devices, they’re downloading and reading more as well. In fact, according to a December report from the…

Chaos in stereovision land

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 28th 2009 | Permalink
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This is moment of great opportunity I’ve been attending and speaking at stereovision conferences for the past year or so. As a matter of fact, I just spent three days in Paris at the Dimension3 Conference and Expo where there was a lot of great information shared by people actually trying to make stereovision work. As it turns out I have a lot to say about the subject having worked in and with stereo for several decades. As I and others have reported there are conflicting proposed standards in the cinema, for the TV, the PC, and handheld devices. All four…

My life on free; why Gutenberg and a bunch of monks are rolling in their graves

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 24th 2009 | Permalink
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Let me tell what I did for a few hours today. I opened up a short story I wrote seven years ago. I used Open Office Writer, a free and very powerful, fully compatible, word-processor to do do my edits. Then I went to Wordpress and registered for a blog page. Then I installed in my free Firefox web browser (I have three actually, Firefox, Opera, and Safari) a tool for converting from “word” files to HTML for blog entries, called ScribeFire. I took my word-processor file, which I had saved in Word 2007 format and and dropped it in Scribefire.…

Ion arrives

Posted by Jon Peddie on April 7th 2009 | Permalink
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We have just learned that the illegitimate, and subsequently abandoned child of Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus, Ion, has been seen in Taiwan hiding in a slick looking blue box that… What?  Oh. Never mind, wrong Ion. Let’s start over.   The dark chocolate found in stores all over Greece is being melted into a new blue box from…  OK, I got this time – don’t interrupt me again. Acer is going to build a really slick little blue box with a positively or negatively charged atom in it, and a regular Atom, which Acer will call AspireRevo.…

The hammer falls – Intel hits AMD and Nvidia – who’s next?

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 18th 2009 | Permalink
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Intel hits AMD and Nvidia 64-bit x86 could be withdrawn -  this is MAD. Remember all those clever comments about how Intel is a hammer so everything looks like a nail to them? Well the hammer is smacking its competitors. First up was VIA who just threw in the towel and gave up on the chipset business. Next was Nvidia who were told they couldn’t interface to QPI – which would shut them out of the chipset biz. Today’s nail was AMD and they were told they’ve got 60 days to get out of Dodge and to stop building x86 parts.…

No longer in Dell’s rear-view mirror, HP now shares the workstation market lead

Posted by Alex Herrera on March 14th 2009 | Permalink
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With ’08 seeing long-time graybeard Sun drastically trimming back its workstation business and fellow industry pioneer IBM dropping its business altogether, the on-going between Dell and HP has become one of the more entertaining dynamics to watch in the marketplace. Dell’s been trying fervently to hold on to market leadership, while HP’s been working even harder to take it away. Not long ago, it was Dell that looked poised to dominate the workstation market the way Nvidia and Intel dominate the platform side: by a wide margin. Quarter after stellar quarter, Dell pleased stockholders and analysts alike. But a few years…

The death of social networking

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 23rd 2009 | Permalink
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Social networking has been climbing its elbow curve of popularity as Facebook reaches a much broader constituency, Twitter coalesces the attention-span challenged, and LinkedIn and Plaxo connect job hunters. There’s a world party going on for the initiated. Old friends are finding each other, new friends are strengthening their links, loves lost are found again, and all that wonderful stuff, but dark clouds are forming. For instance, New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney sent a memo to Times writers admonishing them to social network responsibly as representatives of the Great Grey Lady. His point, certainly valid enough, is that…

Carol Bartz rides in to save a bunch of Yahoos.

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Wow, well this is news (or at least it was yesterday). I didn’t know what I thought about it all until I talked to a reporter this morning who forced me to take a walk down memory lane before I even had my coffee. God knows what I said to the guy that was useful. It felt like he was looking for the one sentence summation, like “she’ll fire everyone,” and somewhere in all my rambling he probably got it, but what Carol Bartz has done and what she can do at Yahoo! is very worthy of some thought and more…

Nvidia laid off?

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 25th 2008 | Permalink
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Having been in this industry almost as long as Gordon Moore and Jerry Sanders I have gotten to know a lot of people in it. And having known Nvidia since before it was Nvidia, I have gotten to know every single employee in the company and all who once worked for the company.  In fact, other than Jen Hsun Huang, I’m the only one who sends them all a Christmas AND birthday card every single year for the last fourteen years – do you have any idea what that costs me in postage? And I get thank you notes back from…

In Prosperous Periods Promote Tactically, In Down Times Promote Strategically

Posted by Andy Marken on October 14th 2008 | Permalink
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The sudden realization that the emperor had no clothes and magnitude of the financial crisis is only now being fully addressed.. But, economists are unanimous that regardless of what governments do, it will take time, a lot of time, to rebuild faith in financial institutions and rejuvenate the economy. In a knee jerk reaction management is moving to cut costs – circling the wagons – by reducing staff and marketing budgets.On the surface it appears logical. But if you look at downturns and recessions in the past it wasn’t financial institutions or governments that led the economy back. Recovery was developed…