May 4, 2011, Multi-core Expo, San Jose, CA—Marcus Levy, president of the Multi-core association talked bout the issues and challenges facing the multi-core industry. He noted that the industry sector is showing a lot of imagination and is creating innovative products and concepts for multi-processor CPUs. The idea of multiple processor cores in a single…
February 14,2011, RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco–Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com presented his thoughts on security in the cloud. Computers have been on a 10 year major revision cycle since the ’60’s. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers in the ’70’s, which in turn were eclipsed by client/server configurations in the ’80’s. The PC…
November 3, 2010 Santa Clara, CA—Cloud Expo—Brian Wilson, director of cloud services at Quest Software talked about “The Private Cloud Top 10 Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid” in one session. Starting out, he defined the requirements for private cloud computing. Private clouds are part of the move to virtualization and cloud management. Users must…
August 19, 2010 San Jose, CA—The Emerging Display Technologies Conference focused on other areas of displays, touch screens. Jennifer Colegrove, director of display technologies at DisplaySearch unleashed a tsunami of data and trends on the touch screen market. The technologies associated with touch screens are rapidly becoming part of a everyday life. The drivers for…
August 17, 2010, San Jose, CA the Digital Signage Conference opened with an overview of the market from Paul Semenza, senior vice president at Display Search. He first defined the public display market as a complex integration of information technology and audiovisual components. Public displays are often large projects and mostly are used for infrastructure…
Kionix is moving their KXTF9 3-axis accelerometer into volume production this summer. The first applications will be in Android-based smart phones, to be released later this year. Other applications include gaming controls, 3-D mice, and other pointing devices. The outputs for this product are optimized for a smart phone form factor. The product is a…