January 19, 2011 – Las Angeles, CA – Multi-award winning recording artist and Jazz/Fusion icon Stanley Clarke took time from his schedule to talk to M&E Tech regarding what he is up to lately. His new band, The Stanley Clarke Band features three new young artists, Hiromi, Ruslan Sirota and Ronald Bruner, Jr. are continuing…
In a recent discussion with Atheros, they indicated they were driving the IEEE 1905 working group on convergent digital home networks that utilize heterogenous technologies. The goal is to create a unified data interface standard that applies to the existing IEEE data transmission specification for Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Power Line [PL] (IEEE 1901) , WiFi…
In a recent interview with author Jonathan Deutsch, I had an opportunity to discuss his new book Time’s Dual Nature (ISBN #1453780998). The book is based on his own 30 years of research and mathematics to address some of the issues of quantum mechanics and create an explaination that is both based on an intuitive…
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas—Imagination Technologies is trying to become a full solutions company with the acquisitions of Hellosoft and Caustic. HelloSoft has wireless LAN and multi-function radios as well as connection management software in its portfolio which will enable advanced video-VOIP for 4G phones. The hardware will enable low power, small form-factor video…
November 30, 2010 – San Jose, CA – At a recent Churchill Club dinner, they had a discussion on the history and directions on wireless with Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, and HP’s Jon Rubenstein former CEO of Palm. The topic was – “Wireless is the Biggest Tech Platform in History. Now What?”. This started…
Odyssey Software has been in the MDM (Mobile Device Management) space since 1996,. Their primary business to date has been in the enterprise space with apps and enabled access between thin client devices and private, public and hybrid cloud configurations. Recently the company has added end device management and channel security to their offerings. This…
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – One of the major topics at the AES conference was Surround sound processing for cinema and music playback. A number of different technologies have been used based on multiple speaker configurations. One of the first major attempts at commercializing surround sound was the quadraphonic systems of the…
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – at the 129th Audio Engineering Society conference there was an exhibition of providers of high performance, professional recording, broadcast and playback equipment. One of the long time exhibitors is David Fern, founder and president of D.W. Fern. The company designs and manufactures vacuum tube based microphone preamps,…
October 2010, San Francisco, CA – Splitfish Corporation introduced their new redesign of their FragFX controller called the Shark for the PS3 and PC. This wireless controller pair is designed for high performance, professional level gaming for first person shooter (FPS) games such as Call of Duty and the newly released Call of Duty Black…
In a recent interview with Paul Grayon of Alibre Design, we discussed the emergence of 3D printing and its use in industrial design. Their software product is currently available in two version a personal level and a professional product. Alibre – personal version The software in available on the Windows platform and in…