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 [...]

 November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hakaru Mizoguchi from Gigaphoton talked about efforts to produce a manufacturing-grade EUV source. This photon source will be needed for the next-generation processes below 20 nm. Some of the shortcomings for EUV sources are low power and short lifetimes. To date, the industry has promised production-quality sources [...]

 November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and [...]

 November 3, 2011 – Monterey, CA – The MEMS Executive Congress continued the second day with presentation from further members including end users who were creating finished goods with the devices. This brought an overview of the development ecosystem for MEMS to start with process technology and devices and continue through final product development with [...]

 November 4, 2011 – Berkeley, CA – The E3S center at UC Berkeley, continued its research overview on energy efficient electronis. The second day of the conference focused on new device physics and circuits based on phenomenon other than electron movement along with new ideas for logic design. The day opened with a presentation from [...]

 The 2nd Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems was held November 3-4, 2011 to promote international collaboration in the growing research field of energy efficiency in Devices and Circuits. The Symposium was at the University of California, Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium and featured 20 research leaders from Europe, Japan, and the US [...]

 July 20, 2011 – San Diego, CA – Before the start of the San Diego Comic-Con, ICV2 held its annual business conference. The session opened with a presentation by ICV2 founder Milton Griepp. Milton presented the trends in comics, graphics novels and the industry as a whole.  Milton Griepp Opens ICV2   The summary of [...]

 June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Confernce, Culver City, CA—Saker Klippsten, head of engineering and IT at Zoic Studios, described the changes in equipment at their studio due to the change to file-based production. The hardware and software in their operations has evolved dramatically in the last 4 or 5 years. Since 2005, their headcount and [...]

 March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– we talked with Zeitera about their audio and video fingerprinting technology. Over the Top (OTT) TV devices are delivering content to viewers directly over the Internet. In many cases these devices must deliver content from various sources that have inconsistent or incomplete metadata causing problems with the viewer [...]

 March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– we talked with Wowza about their unified media server. It takes digital content through a single flow to any applicable transport protocol and encoders, and can simultaneously streamed to any screen–desktop, mobile, and living room. These media streams can be configured for all popular media platforms including Flash, [...]