July 2012 – The folks at Always On held their Silicon Valley Innovation Summit to discuss trends and bring exposure to new technology in the valley. After an opening discussion on the Facebook IPO and the resulting valuation questions for technology products with large PE ratios entering the market, the trends and detail discussions moved…
August 2012 – At Siggraph, Fusion I/O was showing their new PCIe interface card that uses MLC Flash to create a cache for graphics operating software (called the IOFX card). Available now in a 420GB or 512GB configuration (with retail pricing starting at $2495USD) the board is targeted at accelerating large data tasks with a…
August 2012 – At Siggraph 2012, ARM was showing the results of their new silicon for their second generation graphics cores in the Mali T600 family. While showing off existing products with their Mali400 series cores that are the dominant graphics in the Samsung SII and SIII mobile phones. The new cores the T624 and…
July 2012 – At the Churchill Club’s annual CMO talk, the Chief Marketing Officers of Google, Dreamworks, Intuit and SAP held a directed discussion on where the role of marketing fits into business directions now and in the future. The opening of the event was a discussion on where the CMO role fits into the…
July 2012 – At Comic-Con this year, one of the bigger gaming areas was occupied by Capcom. Their main feature was the release of their mega-franchise Resident Evil, and the preview of Resident Evil 6. The booth also features 3 other games – Devil May Cry, Lost Planet and a booth for Street Fighter. CapCom…
August 1, 2012 – We had the opportunity to talk to Fusion IO CEO David Flynn before the big Woz 62 birthday event in SF on August first. David introduced their new ION software stack for their SSD products that allow for a software configurable storage system. This software allows the enterprise management console to…
July 2012 – On the PS3 platform at Comic-Con was the Square Enix game Sleeping Dogs which is a classic high tension underworld adventure that is an open-world game. You play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world:…
July 2012 – At Comic-Con 2012, Square Enix had a number of reworked manjor frachise games. I had the opportunity to try Hitman: Absolution on an Xbox360 at the show. The completely redesigned game Hitman Absolution is based on the world’s ultimate assassin, Agent 47™, as he takes on the character’s most dangerous and involved…