October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel considered the issues of the multi-platform universe. Jeremy Toeman from Dijit Media moderated the panel. Panel members included John Clancy from Azuki Systems, Sherry Brennan from Fox Networks, Kurt Hoppe from LG Electronics, and Richard Bullwinkle from Rovi Corp. Bullwinkle stated that perspective changes for the multi-screen…
September 28, 2011, Unite 11, Unity Developers’ Forum, San Francisco–David Brevik from Gazillion Entertainment talked about he “golden ages” of gaming. The industry has changed many times and in many ways since its beginnings. Over time, platforms go through cycles and the interesting parts are in the juicy middle of the life cycles. For example,…
April 27, 2011, AppNation, San Francisco—Jonathan Carson from The Nielson Company presented some numbers about the app platforms. The biggest driver for the move to apps is the growth of the various platforms for their use. Starting with smart phones, this platform is growing rapidly and is expected to become the majority platform for mobile…
April 27, 2011, AppNation, San Francisco—Trip Hawkins founder of Digital Chocolate talked about the requirements for high-volume games on various platforms. His company has successfully introduced over 100 different award-winning games and has over 10 M on-line users. The key to new games is to look at the disruptive nature of new technologies. The new…
March 2, 2011, game developers conference, San Francisco– Nintendo president Satoru Iwata gave a historical perspective and also looked into the future of games. The developer community is seeing increasing confusion and instability in a changing world. Over time the industry evolves and changes, but overall, content is key. 25 years ago, HAL laboratory started…
October 27, 2010 Digital media Conference, San Francisco—The second panel of the day addressed “Video Anywhere, Anytime, On any Device” to look at the changing environment for video. Colin Dixon, senior analyst for The Diffusion Group moderated the panel. Other panel members were: Gregg Spiridellis, CEO of JibJab Media, Margaret Kim, vice president of Alloy…
October 5, 2010, Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live, Moscone West, San Francisco—in a morning keynote, Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software platforms at Motorola mobile devices said they changed the focus in an effort to regain market relevance. For the past few years, they’ve had over eight operating systems, which required a lot of effort…
September 16, 2010 GSA Expo, Santa Clara, CA Jagdish Rebello, Senior Director & Principal Analyst, Communications & Consumer Electronics, iSuppli Corporation presented his take on wireless applications in his talk “Consumer Connectivity Trends – The Battle to Meet Wireless Application Demands” Consumer electronics has been evolving from analog devices, to the second-generation digital devices, and…
August 31, 2010—San Jose, CA—Samsung hosted an application developer day for their connected television systems entitled “Free the TV Developer Day”. The event started with Samantha Harris of Entertainment Tonight as the hostess for the event, to give the feeling that the programmers in attendance were part of a high profile entertainment event. Eric Anderson,…