Holiday 2014 – At the Pepcom Holiday Preview in SF the theme for the event was Zombies and that theme carried over into the operating system choices for the products. Currently in Zombie mode was Windows. Caught between the EOL of Windows XP, still IT centric Windows 7 and not working on most consumer hardware…
October 2014 – At ARM Techcon in Santa Clara, Micrium was showing their new end-to-end platform for the IoT marketplace called Spectrum. This package is a collection of the embedded software modules protocol stacks, and cloud services to help with applications for Internet of Things (IoT) device development. Unlike most silicon vendor provided tools the…
October 2014 – At the ARM conference in Santa Clara, Rambus was showing their new Differential Power Analysis (DPA) product that was developed by their cryptography research division. The DPA space solution is targeted at keeping data private that may be radiated through fluctuations in the power supply to a chip. The EMC certification for…
September 18, 2014, Uplinq 2014, San Francisco, CA – At the session “Shared Responsibility in the Mobile Security Ecosystem”, five industry experts including Paul Kocher, Chief Scientist of Cryptography Research Division of Rambus; Coby Sella, CEO of Discretix; Rajiv Dholakia, VP Product Management of Nok Nok Lab; Dror Nadler, SVP, Sales and Strategic Alliances of…
September 2014 – At the Uplinq conference for QUALCOMM held in San Francisco, Akamai gave a talk about directions in digital media distribution and consumption for mobile devices. The talk was given by William Law their chief architect. Currently over 60% of all content traveling on the Internet is related to some sort of media…
September 2014 – at the uplink conference in San Francisco, QUALCOMM held a session about the best place for software and applications to reside in a network system. The options are in the cloud, in the end device such as a phone or tablet or laptop, or in the Gateway device inside the building that…
September 2014 – at the GamesBeat conference in San Francisco they held a keynote discussing the change in platforms and consoles for the gaming industry. The discussion focused on whether or not the console wars have concluded and if there is a new platform war starting. The discussion started with the question of “How do…
September 2014 – One of the keynotes was on the topic of transmedia licensing which was titled Hollywood IP: From the big screen to mobile devices. The panel featured Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities as the moderator and Peter Levin of Lionsgate along with Chris Petrovic of Kabam. Lionsgate is fresh off an acquisition of…
September 2014 – At the Games Beat 2014 event, the exhibit area was not filled with gaming companies and designers; rather it featured the monetization partners for mobile, social and casual game developers. The shift to mobile platforms for casual and social games has made the Free 2 Play (F2P) model with in-game purchase the…
September 2014 – At IDF in San Francisco, the keynote added in the application space and shifting content/use that is being driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor technologies. These devices are found in the terms wearable, smart home, connected devices and appliances, and mobile device control. At the keynote, they were showing…