Enigma in the blogosphere
Having spent several days amounting to weeks in various conferences in September around the world, and then reading about them on the web I realize that the bloggers and “news” sites are all frustrated wannabe ...
We’ve come full circle—again
Jon wasn’t the only one to play with time-sharing computers; Bill Gates cut his teeth on them, too. When I was a pup first playing with computers, the machines we had to play with were ...
IBC, what a lot to see
At IBC this year, we learned what is in store for TV in the coming years. What great surprises await us in TV consumer land? Check this out: • Digital cinema: It may actually happen, ...
It’s the application, Stupid
I remember when PDAs first hit the scene and how the very very smart VCs stopped investing in PC companies because “Pocket computers” were going to kill the PC. They were idiots, of course, but ...
The Information Curve
By now you should have seen and studied Kathleen Maher’s Practicality Gap thesis. There is another chart that is interesting to examine, the Information Curve. It’s a phenomenon that a company goes through as it ...
The senility of thinking I have a multitasking system
One of the things you learn quickly in the computer infomation business is that you are not in control, you are at best a laboratory rat running the maze in search of cheese or your ...
Mid-year corrections, forecasts, and procrastinations
Who wants to sit in front of a computer writing crap like this, or worse yet reading it, when there’s a beautiful blue sky over our beautiful bay that’s filled with beautiful people on their ...
Not eyePhone, or uPhone, but myPhone
It was really hard not to write an editorial about the iPhone. We heard (from the San Jose Mercury News) that Hallmark is going to lobby the U.S. Congress to declare June 29 iDay. In ...
Who’s dating whom?
Before AMD acquired ATI it was enjoying a profitable and robust partnership with Nvidia, while ATI was nurturing their multi-decade relationship with Intel. Then AMD’s big checkbook came out and Intel let the jewel of ...
Where oh where is this GP-GPU market?
The reason there’s no report on the GP-GPU market (and lordy, do we need a better name) is because it’s impossible to measure. Nvidia and AMD don’t know who is buying chips for supercomputers, there’s ...
The will to kill—virtually that is
This past week I looked in again on Ageia (and will some more next week). Ageia has found they have to get closer to the developer community—not a big surprise, you say, ATI and Nvidia ...
No one wins when competitors diss each other
When a new technology is introduced it always has some bugs with it, as do products designed to work with it. No new thing has, or ever will be, introduced without mistakes For example, when ...