Kathleen Maher

Scott Belsky named Adobe’s chief product officer

Returns to a fulltime role in Adobe executive offices Scott Belsky came to Adobe with the acquisition of his company Behance in 2012 for a reported $100-150 million. Behance, founded in 2006, is a site that allows people to share their portfolio and work in progress. It serves as a job site where people can find creative people, but the … Read more

Qualcomm and Microsoft announce the latest entrant in the PC wars: the Connected PC

It was a couple of years ago that Qualcomm and Microsoft threatened the status quo with the Always Connected PC, a true PC running Windows 10 on an Arm-based mobile phone processor with enough battery life to run for more than one day, and mobile wireless connectivity to always be connected to the Internet. Today, in Hawaii no less, Qualcomm … Read more

Autodesk increases revenue and brings in new subscribers

Still, investors get nervous on news of restructuring and layoffs Autodesk has reported consistent results with increased revenue year over year and steady transition to subscription. The company has also announced a restructuring plan which will result in a loss of 1,000 people. This is certainly bad news for Marin County, home of many Autodesk employees but not necessarily bad … Read more

FutureWrite Conference: New Input

New announcements, technologies, and alliances announced at FutureWrite conference for digital ink technologies are a portal to the future of human centric computing. There are a lot of people who think you should be going back to the pen for note taking. At the recent FutureWrite conference held in Santa Clara several speakers spoke up about the advantages of handwriting … Read more

Adobe races to the future

Magic over machines: more Harry Potter than the Terminator The overweening theme at this year’s Max is extending creative tools every everyone and brand new apps unveiled this year is enabling the creativity that resides in everyone. In addition, the new apps seem to be built on a continuum that reaches from absolute beginners to professionals and occasional users to … Read more

This is the end, my friend

Welcome to the very last issue of Tech Watch as we have come to know it—a professionally produced, packaged document suitable for print, containing the news of a fortnight. With a lifelong love of print and typography, we tried to create as attractive a piece as we humanly knew how. Long after the fires of the newspaper wars have died … Read more

Welcome to The New JPR

Introducing the all new Jon Peddie Research website. It all started out simply enough. We needed to revamp and create a responsive site. It was also getting obvious to us that continuing to create and distribute weekly issues in PDF has become unsustainable. So much of what we do is traveling to meet companies and developers, go to conferences, and … Read more

We are under attack

Good people can’t leave the fight against disinformation and lies up to governments and technology. That’s really obvious.

Apple’s milestone launch

Putting itself in the center. The veil of secrecy might be slipping or maybe CEO Tim Cook likes to let it slip for a seductive peek or two, because well before the start of this year’s Fall keynote we all knew we were in for a $1,000 Apple iPhone. That’s the kind of news people like to be braced for. … Read more

MSI unveils its 17- inch gaming notebook

Joins the ranks of the monster octal Micro-Star International (MSI) has re-introduced its GT75VR gaming notebook that it showed at Computex. It features a 17-inch display, Intel’s top-end CPU and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 or 1070 GPU, and claims its display features have a response time of 3ms and a refresh rate of 120Hz, while the device’s 10GbE Ethernet module … Read more