January 2012. Anaheim, CA – a major component of the NAMM show was the expansion of home and personal studio recording and playback technology. The prevalence os distributed computing (in smart phones, tablets, laptops and embedded in devices) has now brought the location of these recording devices from the dedicated studio to the home, local [...]
January 2012. Anaheim, CA – Tascam, a division of TEAC America, lead the press conference with the announcement of the partnership with Onkyo and the integration of their products and channel. They also introduced several products in two classes – the prosumer/professional performer and the mobile musician. On the Prosumer side, they introduced thier new [...]
January 2012, Anaheim, CA – President and CEO Kaz Tanaka of Roland Corp from Japan, kicked off their 40th anniversary product rollout at the Winter NAMM show. The company which has been dedicated to innovation since 1972, introduced the tag line a “Better Life with Music” at the event. The first announcement was that the [...]
January 5, 2012 – San Jose, CA – Xilinx announced support for high performance video display processing for use in TVs and flat panel displays for both 3D and 4K2K applications. The 7series FPGA products – Zynq, Artix7, Kintex7 and Virtex7 are fast enough, have enough programmability , datapath space and high performance I/Os to [...]
January 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The automotive products group at Xilinx introduced a new Ethernet Audio/Video Bridge (EAVB) Development Kit co-developed Alliance Program member Digital Design Corp. (DDC) which gives automotive system developers the framework and tools to do large bandwidth data management. Automotive systems are incorporating more video data both in [...]
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 [...]
Dec 2011 – We recently had the chance to review the Cobra Delux CBTH1-Plus over-the-head style Bluetooth Wireless headset for use with cellphones. This single speaker design, has an adjustable “boom” style mic that can be positioned for optimized voice pickup in noise environments as well as being comfortable to wear for extended periods. Cobra [...]
December 1, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, – At the AppNation conference in San Francisco, Infinite Monkeys was showing their free to create app builder platform. The product is complete “wizard” based workflow that allows someone to create an HTML5 or Android App for smartphones & tablets free and with no programming knowledge. The site [...]
December 15, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Renesas Electronics Corp. just announced the availability of their new embedded Flash memory IP for the automotive industry. Supplementing their 90nm process solutions, they have chosen to bypass the 65nm and 55nm nodes and moved directly to a 40nm process. This is a fully qualified automotive process [...]
December 7, 2011- San Jose, CA – As a head start to CES, Samsung’s SSI division showed off some of their new products. These included offerings from the optical drive group, digital signage group and advanced displays. The digital signage group showed and update on the transparent retail display product. The screens and the associated [...]
