As I approached the Anaheim Coliseum the signs and banners for the conference were everywhere. I begin to get excited. As a musician, I knew I was about to enter musician’s heaven. First stop, the press booth to pick up my credentials. The check-in process was quick and painless, but as I witnessed the next [...]
January 11, 2012, CES Digital Health Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the issues of digital health data in an ever changing operation and legal environment. Ray Maker from DC Rainmaker moderated the panel. Panel members included Ian Andes from 4iiiInnovations, Karl-Johan Dahlstrom from Sony-Ericsson, Chris Fickle from A&D Medical, and Mike Stashak from Wahoo [...]
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Steve Bambridge, Global Business Director, GfK Boutique Research and Steve Koenig, Director of Industry Analysis, CEA talked about the changing shape of the global tech device markets. The changes are tabulated by region and category. The developed regions of North America, Europe, Japan, and Korea are seeing signs of increasing [...]
M&E Tech was pleased to be accompanied by Sr Technologist and Business Strategist Michael Lyon at the 2012 CES event and its co-located event Showstoppers. Below is his comments on CES from a non-electrical engineers’ perspective. CES 2012 was typical in that a herd of vendors followed a few salient trends, while a few broke [...]
December 8, 2011, San Francisco—We talked with Broadcom about their recent survey on connectivity. JZ Analytics conducted the survey in November and surveyed 1025 individuals. The respondents provided a quick look into consumer habits and expectations for connections to others. A growing number of people are experiencing connectivity withdrawal, where the person feels stress or [...]
At the 2011 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference held in San Mateo, CA this month, speaker after speaker made it pretty apparent that 3D is for real. Though there are still competing flavors of 3D, and some advocate ‘2.5D’ as a safe stepping stone, the cost and reliability of 3D are now [...]
November 19, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – The Korean Scientist & Engineers Association of Silicon Valley (www.ksea-siv.org) hosted the North West Regional Conference in Santa Clara this year. The event was attended by over 100 members, guests and speakers from the bay area, Southern CA, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland and other chapters in the NW [...]
Nov 3, 2011, Monterey,CA – This year’s MEMS Executive Congress was well attended by close to 200 hundred people representing the 130+ MIG members. The group over the past 10 years has expanded to include the full extent of the MEMS ecosystem and supply chain. These include device manufacturers, equipment suppliers, foundries, end users, product [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Wesoff from Greentech Media introduced the topic and made some comments before leaving for a meeting. Pallab Chatterjee acted as back-up moderator for the panel. The panel members included Don Danh from East-West Bank, Kevin Gao from CA Solar, and Sandeep Sharma from Sandview [...]
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel considered the issues of the multi-platform universe. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated the panel. Panel members included John Clancy from Azuki Systems, Sherry Brennan from Fox Networks, Kurt Hoppe from LG Electronics, and Richard Bullwinkle from Rovi Corp. Bullwinkle stated that perspective changes for the multi-screen [...]
