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WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity
Posted by Mitchell Weinstock on August 25th 2011 | Permalink
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With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly large install base without serious incentives beyond the token free device to work with.Developers now have an instant total available market of 500K units. Normally it would take a company like Motorola Mobility 7-12 months to reach that sell through on a single carrier focused smartphone type device. Since the number of…
WebGL Security - Kill it before it grows?
Posted by Jon Peddie on June 29th 2011 | Permalink
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When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few bumps in the road in WebGL’s journey to pervasiveness. Last week we were told by Microsoft, the developers of Silverlight, that WebGL is a giant piss-hole into which any yahoo can pour viruses, spoofs, and even DoS attacks - ack! The sky is falling run run run. In a post by James…
The real 3D - Looking at all sides of 3D reveals a future far beyond pixels
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 3rd 2011 | Permalink
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3D is an illusion. Right, got that. Ever since I’ve been working around the computer industry I’ve had people tell me 3D is an illusion. Like, I didn’t know that. The computer screen is a 2D surface, and when we look at objects and turn them, or run into a 3D maze with our big ol’ gun, it’s still a 2D screen. The 3D we think we see is just the illusion of depth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, got it. And, then at the Dimension3 conference in Paris, again, a speaker bemoaned the fact that stereoscopic 3D is just an illusion to…
Game Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Response
Posted by Ted Pollak on March 17th 2011 | Permalink
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By Ted Pollak (contributions by Jon Peddie) Japan’s terrible situation with its nuclear power plant is heartbreaking. Especially sad are reports that some workers are exposing themselves to potentially harmful radiation levels. The bravery of these people is overwhelming. This got me to thinking about how game technology could maybe help in situations like this and also train and educate people about risk analysis. I will disclose right off the bat that I am not an expert in this kind of thing but believe that there must be some way to modernize how we deal with such a terribly dangerous energy source. International…
Social Media – A Company’s Friend, Foe
Posted by Andy Marken on August 2nd 2010 | Permalink
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There’s so much information and misinformation surrounding the power and magic of social media, company management and marketing probably feel like a deer hypnotized by the headlines of a semi on the highway. We all know that word-of-mouth “advertising” is the most powerful – good and bad – promotion for a company that exists. As a result, companies, departments, individuals are setting up social network pages, signing up for microblogs like Twitter, establishing management/marketing blogs on their Web site and establishing customer forums on the Web. The challenge is to understand the true value of social media for your business, activity.…
Playing with six monitors—is that a “full deck?”
Posted by Jon Peddie on March 8th 2010 | Permalink
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mt. tiburon testing
Here at Mt. Tiburon Testing Labs we’re testing a lot of stuff as usual. However, the one system that will get a lot of attention from us and our readers is the six-headed ATI-based EyeFinity. The system consists of six 22-inch 1920 x 1080 displays - yes, that’s 5760 x 2160 resolution in a 3 x 2 array 61 x 24 inches, backed up by a 2GB GDDR5 graphics board, running on a 3.7GHz 4GB RAM, SSD, Nehalem system, with of course, great sound. When the system is first brought to life it is six duplicate displays The next step is…
Marking 101 - Increasing Your Product, Service Street Cred
Posted by Andy Marken on September 17th 2009 | Permalink
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When our kids were growing up, they asked us what we did…really?? The answer changes … constantly. Over the past 20 + years in the PC/CE/communications marketplace, we’ve had to learn and relearn our job 40-50 times. Every time the industry changes, every time the communications avenues shift; life/opportunities change. Since the Internet (recently celebrated its 40th anniversary) and Web came into their own; editorial and promotional outlets/targets have shifted…dramatically. We all read the same studies, the same reports—WOM (word of mouth) is the most effective marketing/sales tool available. Yet PR people – at the cattle prodding of management – constantly…
Seeing double at IBC
Posted by Kathleen Maher on September 16th 2008 | Permalink
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Welcome to Amsterdam, welcome to the International Broadcast Conference. For whatever reason the IBC seems more susceptible to the waves of fashion and new technology than its more stable US counterpart, the National Association of Broadcasters who throws their big show every spring in Las Vegas. Every year it seems there are several consistent themes underlying the show and the conference no doubt because the conference is dominated by a fairly homogeneous crew of industry insiders—so what every gets these old boys in a tizzy is going to be “the issue.” But, I can’t say that this is really such a…
Is this a test?
Posted by Jon Peddie on February 28th 2008 | Permalink
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I once had a cat named Alice. She was great company when I was working late at night, or very early in the morning. I would talk to her and she would look at me attentively, and sometimes answer with a little meow. During WWII Alan Turing developed the Turing test, which was a challenge and the basis for AI that asked the observer to see if he or she could determine if the correspondent (on a remote computer) was a machine or a human. That was the foundation for the A.L.I.C.E foundation, and those AI developers developed Alice the bot.…
Web 2.0 or deja vu all over again?
Posted by Kathleen Maher on October 15th 2007 | Permalink
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I was at dinner with some very interesting and urbane executive types in Boston recently. The subject of what’s next/what’s the latest trend/where’s the money came up as it inevitably does. We were talking about Web 2.0 and how interesting it all was that MySpace had become so last 20 minutes ago in the space of uh, 30 minutes. Now it’s all about Facebook said one of my dinner partners. Really? Why in the world should Facebook prevail where Friendster and MySpace have failed? Doesn’t all this Web 2.0 stuff have the stench of doom wafting all around it? It’s nice…