January 2015 – At Pepcom co-located with CES 2015 and also at the main show – there was a dominance of smart phones in the hands of the over 100,000 attendees. The show itself is odd in that it both accessories and obsoletes the handset technology owned by the attendees. This problem of obsolescence of…
November 2014 – The latest version of the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 desktop scanner provides a multipaper autofeeder that scans at rates up to 25 pages per minutes in duplex mode to desktop, laptop and mobile devices. The unit is intuitive and easily connected with both wired (USB3) and wireless (WiFI) connectivity. The integrated WiFi allows…
November 2014 – The latest version of the Fujitsu Scansnap iX100 is incredibly fast, intuitive and easily connected to both laptops and mobile devices. The integrated WiFi allows the device to quickly connect to local networks and also directly with an integrated WiFi host adapter in the device. The portable scanner has an internal USB…
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…
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…
October 2, 2014, ARMTechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Erica Kochi, director of innovation at UNICEF, talked about the need for new technologies that will change lives. The challenges are to have the technologies be appropriate to the locale, a dimension of the problem that was not understood until many failures. One postulate is that doing good is…
October 1, 2014, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, CA—Mukund Srinivasan from Ittiam described the requirements and results of accelerating the newest codecs on GPUs. The needs for higher compression ratios for video is facing the challenges of compute workloads and CPU capacity. The market is seeing much more video on all devices, but particularly on mobile…
July 23, 2014, Casual Connect Conference, San Francisco—A panel looked at the pressures that technology changes will bring to mobile gaming. Kyle Russell from TechCrunch moderated the panel with panelists Greg Hartrell from Google, Jean-Christophe Cimertiere from Unity, and Brian Shin from Pocket Gems. New platforms? Hartrell noted that game developers are considering second screen…
June 18, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel considered the trends and implications for broadcast as over the top and cable change the shape of network TV. Jim Burger from Thompson Coburn LLP moderated the panel, with panel members Mark Aiken form Sinclair Broadcast, Michael Bergman from the Consumer…
June 18, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—The ability to deliver full 3-D audio greatly enhances the AV experience. Sunil Bharitkar from Dolby moderated this panel. Panelists were Sripal Mehta from Dolby, Roger Charlesworth from Charlesworth Media, and Philip Hilmes from Lab 126 and Amazon. Mehta opened with a short…