Qualcomm and Microsoft announce the latest entrant in the PC wars: the Connected PC
Can a new device segment revitalize the PC market?
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
JPR has revamped its website and is planning new surprises for visitors and subscribers.
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
Customers in charge
One sure sign of a successful launch in the game industry is the rise of an unruly fan base, and AMD has that in spades. Vega is a competitive graphics chip for AMD with benchmarks that challenge Nvidia in performance and have the edge in price. Unfortunately, as we have written here, that attractive price point and the ability to … Read more
Siemens PLM focuses on additive manufacturing
Now that the technology industry has survived the great 3D printing hype cycle, the real changes coming from additive manufacturing are coming into focus. The major CAD manufacturers are all en-thusiastic about the potential and most have made changes to their software to accommodate 3D printing, but Siemens PLM has signaled its intention to make AM a major business in … Read more