January 6, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—The CEA presented the global sales trends from their data and that of GFK consulting. The data and perspectives have some gaps, as the many companies do not report Q4 numbers until later this year. All figures are in US dollars, but may be distorted by taxes, exchange rate fluctuations, [...]

January 8, 2013, Connections Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the nature of smart TV and the possible future of entertainment. Brett Sappington, Director of Research, Parks Associates moderated the panel. Panelists included Kurt Hoppe, Director of Smart TV Innovation & Alliances at LG Electronics, Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director of FiOS TV Product Development at Verizon, [...]

CES, January 2013, Las Vegas—We talked with Timo Korpela from MultiTouch Americas about their latest offerings in displays and couch controls. They offer industrial grade displays in wall and tabletop formats. On their wall displays, they now have one version with a 6mm total gap on stacked panels. The close spacing images reality and makes [...]

January, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—We talked with some people working under the umbrella organization Ant+. The organization is promoting interface specifications for sports equipment interconnectivity. The alliance had a number of diverse showing off their products, and demonstrating the ability to interconnect diverse functions across multiple pieces of equipment. The interface is a short-range, low-power [...]

January 7, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—Press day at CES is a chance for exhibitors to capture some members of the press for a while, and make a pitch about their latest and greatest new gadgets. This event is an opportunity to package a message and put new releases into some perspective, in an environment more [...]

 I was happy that Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of CEA was able to make time for a short interview during the 2012 CE Industry Forum, which took place in San Francisco in October. It is a busy time of year when the industry leaders gather to predict the trends and discuss the consumer electronics [...]

 Digital photography over the past few years has become, not only the popular choice, but the standard. While there are many photo editing platforms available, After Shot Pro is Corel’s affordable entry into the photo workflow marketplace($99.95). Corel has taken the core technology from its acquisition of Bibble Labs and its own PaintShop Pro and [...]

 January 2012, Las Vegas, IP technology licensor Imagination Technologies was showing their next generation industry leading IP cores for the mobile, settop box, television and VOIP systems at CES. The new cores, scalable to to 2xnm process nodes and in line for scaling to the 1xnm processes, unlike some of the IP providers was not [...]

 January 2012, Las Vegas, In addition to the massive floor display of TVs, appliances, and mobile electronics which dominated the Central Hall of the LVCC, Samsung also filled most of the Cosmopolitan Hotel conference rooms with specialized product briefings. One of the briefings was an update and the release of the Smart Media Hub. Since [...]

 January 2012, Las Vegas, One of the big discussions at CES was the prevalence of 4G networks, and the hopeful availability of video conferencing. The promise of 4G networks with their high bandwidth potentials has brought a great deal of excitement to the marketplace. At the CES show, Alcatel was showing an LTE transceiver pair [...]