July 2012 – At Comic-Con 2012, Square Enix had a two sided booth – one featuring collectibles and accessories for their existing line of video games (including Final Fantasy) and one side with both Xbox360 and PS3’s showing the upcoming holiday release games. I had an opportunity to try out three of their new big…
USA\’s Psych – James Roday & Dule Hill July 2012 – At the panel discussion and interviews, the main cast of USA Network’s series Psych discussed ideas and episodes for the upcoming season. The show, starring Dule Hill and James Roday as psychic detective consultants to the local police department, has been on the leading…
July 2012 – As the graphics world has shifted to computers for the basis of their art, a large variety from low cost entry level tools, to high priced commercial enterprise class tools for the cinema and TV industry have entered the market. Smith Micro has been a long time player in this market, and…
July 2012 – At the San Diego Comic-Con Sony Entertainment once again had a booth dominated by their gaming platforms. Showing off their three platforms – the PS3, the PS Vita and their on-line gaming (for the PC) – they were quite crowed with fans seeking access tot he latest features, downloads and collectibles. On…
July 2012 – At this years Comic-Con, one of the most anticipated features was the “Dark Knight Rises” the thhird episode in the Christopher Nolan story telling of the Batman world. With anticipation for the film driving the event, all things batman were on display. One of the keys of the character is the tech…
July 2012 – The 42nd annual Comic-Con event in San Diego continues to be the anchor point for geekdom’s ruling of the entertainment world was bigger than ever. The show has shifted the past few years from traditional graphic novels & art to film and now is dominated by the small screen & smaller mobile…
July 2012 – At Semicon San Francisco, CEA Leti and their spinoff SOITEC held events to overview their new research and new production capabilities. Both of these groups are focusing on new semiconductor technologies for the mobile marketplace as the drive. The differentiating factors for mobile include: reduced operating voltage, reduced standby and leakage current,…
June 2012 – At the 2012 Creative Storage Conference, we had a chance to talk to Molly Rector of Spectra about their media oriented tape solution. They started in the Media and Entertainment sector in the 1990’s with Sony AIT tape. In 2003, they moved to LTO tape and are now supporting LTO5 storage with…
June 2012 – At the Creative Storage Conference 2012 held in Culver City, the discussion focused on Workflows, large data stores and the growing technologies for near field and active data access. The conference opened with a framing conversation and presentation by conference organizer Tom Coughlin on data storage requirements for current and near term…
June 2012 – Prior to the opening of the new Ford R&D Center in Silicon Valley, they held a discussion and demonstration of new technology for connecting Ford products to the mobile community via applications and the web and also their direction in EV and Hybrid vehicles. The decision to open an R&D center in…