Last week’s announcements about new tablets, were hardly news. There are announcements every week now about new tablets. The latest announcement from Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos saying his company will release a tablet based on ...
We’re only a third of the way into 2011 and already it’s been marked with tremendous and sometimes horrendous events; earthquakes, tornados, civilian uprisings, killings by terrorists and the killing of a terrorist, and changes ...
Just got back from COFES in sunny warm Scottsdale Arizona. Ensconced in the conference at a resort, and venturing out only at night to nearby restaurants, we were immune to the tremendous political stress this ...
At least once a week someone asks us how many gamers are there? We then have to go into a long series of questions to qualify the answer so we can try to quantify it: ...
And all the other phrases and acronyms we live with Have you ever wondered how you would explain the technological developments of the past ten years, or the forecast for new technology without using the ...
No they don’t…ah… I’ve been having this debate with myself, my colleagues, and almost anyone who will listen to me for more than 30 seconds, about the game publishers unjustified bias against PC games and ...
It is amazing to see the gold rush fever that’s happening over tablets — no, it’s astounding. Doesn’t seem like anyone’s had an original idea since Apple introduced the iPad and yet everyone plans on ...
Parallel processing is the future. It is how we will increase our processing capability without having to double the clock speed of processors every other year. But parallel processing requires generating parallel processing programs. And ...
This week’s issue of Tech Watch is filled with stories about new products, many of them semiconductors, SOCs to be more specific. SOCs are tricky devices to design, and get right. Almost no one got ...
The first CES conference in New York City in 1967 attracted 17,500 dealers looking for the next CE products. Last year, just wobbling out of a recession the show had a surprising 126,641 visitors and ...
Last week I gave a presentation at the Congress Of Future Engineering Software (COFES) in Tel Aviv on the Opportunities For Innovation In Design And Sustainability. I was the token hardware person at a conference ...
Modern up-scale TVs have as many or more holes in them as a PC. A TV now offers the usual LRV RCA jacks, Composite jacks, S-video, an OTA and/or cable ready F connector, IR audio, ...
