Sony Computer Entertainment is planning on a much longer shelf life for its next generation PlayStation gaming console with a strategy that appears to be based around refreshing the platform over its lifetime with a series of high profile, cutting edge peripherals. Masaaki Tsuruta, CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment Masaaki Tsuruta, CTO of Sony Computer [...]
January 6, 2011, – Livermore, CA- We talked to Camille Tang of Convienient Power which was one of the original members of the Qi Wireless Power Consortium. In a pre-CES update, she talked about the progress made in the group and the surpirsing developments in the adoption. Qi Wireless Charging pad The past couple of [...]
We talked with Jeff Ravencraft of the USB-IF about the current status of USB 3.0. The main talking points were that Superspeed USB is becoming widely available, and is providing end-to-end solutions with over 350 certified products. The latest version of USB has the capacity to deliver streaming video and other media to any platform [...]
December 5, 2011, UCB, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, Berkeley, CA—Krishna Mikkilineni from Honeywell and the local workshop leader noted that technology is increasingly difficult to transfer to high volume. Specific aspects of a technology become a tradable property within the world-wide product development and manufacturing areas. The workshops are important to validate the work of the [...]
December 5, 2011, UCB, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, Berkeley, CA—Tom Kalil from the office of the President’s Office of Science and Technology described the governments’ efforts to advance domestic manufacturing capabilities. These next-generation processes will be both the necessary and also the enabling technologies for world-wide competitiveness. Advanced manufacturing is a broad topic, so the first [...]
In prepartion for the on-coming big conferences of CES and NAMM in January, we took some time to have a short 1:1 interview the Mr. Joe Lamond, President and CEO of NAMM, to get some quick insights on how the music business has been doing this year. In direct fashion, here are the points of the [...]
October 25, 2011 – At the ARM Techcon we had a chance to catch up with Marvell Semiconductor to talk abou their Avastar wireless controllers the 88W8797, 88W8787, 88W8764. As high bandwidth wireless networking extends to more and more devices in the household and SMB, advanced control technology is required. The SoC is targeted at [...]
October 27, 2011, Association for Corporate Growth, Santa Clara, CA–The Silicon Valley chapter of ACG looked at big data in a panel moderated by John Furrier of Silicon Angle. The trends in big data are being generated by the growing rate of data production and by consumers who are using these data in new ways. [...]
Oct 25, 2011 – Chicago , IL – At the 4G world conference, Imagination Technologies intorduced the HelloSoft V.VOIP solution for smartphones. This solution is the first major integration into the Imagination product line from the HelloSoft acquisition. The V.VOIP (for voice and video over IP) is an SDK for smartphones that supports their mult-platform [...]
Oct 24, 2011 – Armonk, NY – We had the chance to talk to IBM about their recent work in media workflow and infrastructure that earned them an Engineering Emmy® Award for Innovation from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The work was started over 5 years ago at the start of the digital [...]
