April 2, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – The WonderCon show this year featured both traditonal print comics and a large variety of digital comics. All of the major publishers have produced some sort of reader for digital comics. These readers have appeared on multiple platforms including windows, Mac OS, Android phones and tables and [...]
April 2, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – At Wondercon this year, the trend of comic book characters being the driver for film, gaming, television and collectibles was still strong. The big stories were about Green Lantern, Thor, Human Target, Doctor Who and Godzilla. Wondercon Doctor Who Panel One of the largest groups [...]
April 10, 2011, NAB , Las Vegas—Sony showed off their HD expertise through some customers and partners. They released a lot of new equipment at this show. The Japan earthquake has affected their production of tapes, but they have a 6 month supply. By the end of July, they will have a forecast for production [...]
April 10, 2011, NAB, Las Vegas—Panasonic reported that the recent earthquake affected some component supplies leading to a short term reduction in revenue. The P2 cards and tape are ok. They are working to become the number 1 green company by 2018, with the goal of recycling 16 percent of their materials within the company [...]
April 5, 2011 – Livermore, CA – We recently had a chance to review the new time managment game on the iphone/ipod touch platform from G5 Entertainment – Jane’s Zoo. This multi-level single person game is one of the new additions to their gaming line of object search & time management titles. The game is [...]
April 1, 2011 – Palo Alto, CA – The Churchill Club held a breakfast event discussing the topic of leadership in the age of transparency. The event featured Gail Becker of Edelman, Peter Blackmore of ShoreTel, Gary Bloom of eMeter, John Hamm of VSP Capital, Anthony Wood of Roku and was moderated by Charlene Li [...]
March 23, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The annual Samsung System LSI group was once again focused on the mobile marketplace. The event featured discussion of the foundry services group and the roadmap for manufacturing technology down through the 14nm/13nm process node. Additional discussions were on the impact of mobile devices on display, memory, [...]
So where will television be in 2020? I posed the question last week at a panel I led during NAB with execs from DreamWorks, Sony Electronics, Starz, Nielsen and Technicolor. Of course, nobody really knows what TV will look like in two years, let alone most of a decade. But the panel took some educated [...]
Seagate and Samsung announced a broad agreement this morning (April 19, 2011) that the two companies will “combine” their HDD businesses. Seagate will pay Samsung $1.38 billion, half cash and half newly-issued shares of Seagate stock, which will result in Samsung owning 9.6% of Seagate, earning Samsung a nomination for a position on Seagate’s board. [...]
April 5, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Fishman of EMC Corporation presented concepts of data protection in an era of shrinking time windows for data safety and recovery. Data protection is related to data availability and the ability to recover those data under any circumstances. Starting at the end, recovery is the ultimate [...]
