April 3, 2013, IEEE CE Society and CASPA, San Jose, CA—Frankie James from GM described her efforts in supporting EV adoption. The makers of electric vehicles (EV) are working to make EVs more user friendly and plan to use the EVs to meet the coming corporate gas mileage requirements. The latest electric and hybrid vehicles…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Koichi Tagawa from the NFC Forum and Sony asked now that we are on the verge of shipping 100M NFC devices, what do we owe the consumers? Over the past 10 years Sony, one of the founders of the NFC Forum, has been slowly making the transition from…
October 17, 2012, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, C—Mike McClaskey from Dish Network described the efforts and results of a major IT infrastructure rebuild on the company’s business. The IT overhaul affected most of the departments in the company, so a lot of planning and trials had to be done before the cutover. Dish planned…
May 22, 2012, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Colin Bodell from Amazon illustrated the value of finding solutions for internal problems and then sharing the solutions with others. First, an example of the fortuitous results of sharing solutions. About 900 years ago, governments formed in France, Germany, and Spain. The taxing authorities decided to place…
March 21, 2012, SensorCon 2012, Santa Clara, CA—A panel of experts discussed the growing influence of sensors on the electronics market. Pallab Chatterjee moderated the panel. Panel members included Terry O’Shea from Intel, Kevin Shaw from Sensor Platforms, Janusz Bryzek from Fairchild Semiconductor, and MP Divakar from Microlytics. Are there infrastructure limits to increases in…
We talked with Venkat Mattela from Redpine Signals about their new WiFi module. The company has been developing various wireless components and systems for over 10 years and now is offering a self-contained WiFi module. Figure 1 – WiSeConnect Block Diagram This self-contained device is targeting the Internet of things through low-power design, and…
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Arun Sarin currently advising Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts and former CEO of Vodaphone talked about the transition from land lines (POTS: plain old telephone service) to wireless (PAN: personal area network). Although mobile phones were invented before this year, in ’84 the transition…
October 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The Linley Processor conference recently focused on new architectures and trends for network data processing. As video and multimedia have become more pervasive in all aspects of networking – wireless, content delivery, cloud storage & processing, and data center core applications. The larger data sized of this…
June 30, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the Connections conference in Santa Clara, IBM and their Global Business Services (GBS) talked about the connected home and the realities of bringing it about. Their research into to sector, shows that consumer interest is very high for the connected home, and there is a high…
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…