November 2, 2011, International Game Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Susan Bonds from 42 Entertainment talked about gameplay, participation, and storylines in her keynote talk. The world of entertainment is changing as seen in alternate reality games. Here, the participants are changing their expectations of boundaries. They are changing consumption patterns and increasing group participation in these…
October 26, 2011, – Santa Clara, CA – At the ARMTechCon event, Tektronix’s Embedded Instrumentation Group, recently formed from the acquisition of Veridae Systems, showed their award wining Clarus and Certus tools for in-chip ASIC and FPGA validation and debugging. Today’s designs have a complexity level that leaves large numbers of block I/Os and data…
October 27, 2011, Association for Corporate Growth, Santa Clara, CA–The Silicon Valley chapter of ACG looked at big data in a panel moderated by John Furrier of Silicon Angle. The trends in big data are being generated by the growing rate of data production and by consumers who are using these data in new ways….
October 12, 2011, IPSO Alliance, Santa Clara, CA–The IPSO Alliance had Witt Diffie talk about data security. Diffie is half of the Difie-Hellman key exchange protocol for encryption. Technology and cryptography have been on a parallel evolution path since the beginning of the 20th century. When Marconi demonstrated the wireless telegraph, the first users were…
October 12, 2011, IPSO Alliance, Santa Clara, CA–The IPSO Alliance had Bo Begole from PARC talk about changing business models and technologies that will change the way people interact with their worlds. These new models will cause more independent R&D companies to form to address the many changing requirements. Once devices know your location, they…
October 12, 2011, IPSO Alliance, Santa Clara, CA–The IPSO Alliance had Stuart Sikes from Parks Associates talk about the many technology opportunities residential energy management offers. The opportunities for IP connected products and services include saving energy, money, enable lifestyle control convenience, fuel the extensions of machine-to-machine communications, and take greater advantage of eh cloud…
October 5, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel of industry insiders, moderated by Colin Dixon from The Diffusion Group, looked at the coming issues on next generation TV. The panel consisted of Ken Morse from Cisco SVPG, Ted Grauch form Comcast Cable, Rick Dean from THX, Ryan Massie from CBS Interactive, and Brandon Lucas BET…
Oct 20, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the IDEMA’s Diskcon event, there were two main topic for the presentation – the technology behind increasing areal density for rotating media (HDDs) and the consumption appetite of the cloud and media content as the new the driver of the marketplace. With storage and compute in…