March 2015 – In the weekend event that was the first annual HardwareCon3, the main session was equally attended at the topic specific breakout sessions. Arranged from introduction to advanced on topics and depth, the 3-4 concurrent breakout sessions were both diverse and well attended. Some of the breakout highlights and topics follow: One of…
January 2015 – At Storage Visions 2015, there was a panel discussion and presentations on the security of data in today’s devices and the methods of protecting this information in multi-tenant facilities such as cloud service providers and on mobile devices. The discussions focused on the use of self-encrypting drives, key management and data recovery….
May 2014, The SIIA Maximize conference took place on May 20-22 and acted as the host event for the the annual CODiE AWARDS. At the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Rhianna Collier, VP of Software Division, SIIA announced the finalists and winners. The awards were announced at a gala dinner by prior award winners and…
March 2014 – Games Connections USA was held in San Francisco. The B2B conference had a number of key themes this year. Typically the conference focuses on connecting developers with publishers and financing, this year more of the conference was focused on the business of game development rather than the titles themselves. The rise of…
March 2014 – The Games Connections USA conference was held in San Francisco this year overlapping with the Game Developer Conference. The B2B event is designed to help independent developers connect with publishers and distribution channels, independent and large developers to connect with specialty service bureaus, and for international trade delegations to promote and gain…
December 2013, Denny Tedesco has been working for 17 yrs to get the film about the historic studio work done the group of musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. Denny’s dad Tommy Tedesco was a member of that group, as well has film participant Hal Blaine. The project is nearing its final stage prior to…
June 2013 – At the monthly meeting of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the IEEE Consumer Electronics society in June, Dolby Labs in Sunnyvale presented their laptop sized and large format (56″) glasses free Stereoscopic 3D display/TV system to a standing room only audience. The S3D TV marketplace has been rocky, as the hype…
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…
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Tech Symposium had its theme presentation on the MEMS market reaching the $Trillion mark in the future, from Janusz Bryzek of Fairchild Semi. The presentation focused on the MEMS commercialization cycle and the extension of the current 15% CAGR from the $1.5B base of 2012 to ~$1 trillion by…
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Technology Symposium opened with a keynote from Prof. Kristofer Pister of UC Berkeley who talked about Sensory Swarms. These swarms are made of large numbers of wireless sensors that form an information interconnect and communication back to a central compute and analysis location. The vast majority of these new…