June 19, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—A group of experts considered the issues of achieving quality on the Internet. Joyce Farrell chaired the group, which consisted of Scott Daly from Dolby, John Apostolopoulos from Cisco, and Sunil Bharitkar from Dolby. Apostolopoulos noted the advances in Web media…
June 11, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—AMD demonstrated their latest APUs and graphics cards for gaming as separate components and as fully assembled machines, desktops, laptops, and graphic accelerator cards. The booth was emphasizing their ability to produce faster and more realistic gaming platforms. They were also giving away A8 APUs and Superman capes. One part…
June 5, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Steve Mann from Toronto University is considered one of the founding fathers of wearable computers. He provided a historical perspective and a look into the possible futures of AR. The origins of wearable computers started with welding glasses. These are dark lenses to protect the eyes from…
April 29, 2013, Open source Business Conference, San Francisco—Jim Whitehurst from Red Hat talked about open source going into the mainstream and losing its niche status. The trends and drivers in the industry are coming from a newfound respect for the values of open source software. The shifts start with technology and innovation. As a…
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, las Vegas—We talked with Chyron-Hego about their various products. Their products are integrated across all platforms and allow xross discipline edit, render, etc. for graphics. The advent of blade servers and cloud services facilitates image analysis and production. All of their products are based upon their Lyric system…
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Ross Video about their latest product releases. The inception of social media is changing the nature of broadcast, and the underlying equipment has to change to meet the new requirements. Social polling is showing trends and history in many areas. The analytics and visualizations…
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Dell about their two new product offerings, a cloud-based creation environment and a performance optimization tool. Dell Create is a multi-vendor cloud for content creators. This new professional service is a centralized IT environment with custom packages for content creation. The service and consulting…
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Garret Swart from Oracle identified the potential benefits for applications with the new storage architectures. The different memory structures and performance levels calls for new programming styles. With the advent of DRAM-compatible NVM technologies, the choices for NVM, connectivity, and form factors allows for greater diversity…
January 6, 2013, Storage Visions Conference, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the requirements for digital production flows for media. Pallab Chatterjee from M & E Tech moderated the panel. Speakers included Don Molaro from DataDirect Networks, Jim Jonez from Dot Hill, Tracey Doyle from HDS, and Steven Cohen from Aberdeen LLC. In addition to the…
December 6, 2012, Wireless Communication Alliance, Santa Clara, CA—The WCA held their year-end round-up meeting with a set of presentations from various industry participants. The meeting focus was on the technologies to enable the intelligent, connected home. Michael Palma from IDC offered a number of applications that the intelligent connected home could support. These apps…