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The First Quarter of 2010 Another Solid Stepping Stone in the Workstation Market’s Road to Recovery

TIBURON, Calif- June 7, 2010 – The workstation market posted another round of steadily improving results for the first quarter of 2010, taking one more solid step in its recovery from the lows of 2009. So reports Jon Peddie Research (JPR) after wrapping up its first quarter analysis as part of its JPR Workstation Report series. The technology and market … Read more

The Tyranny of Terminology

Source: Willi Heidelbach    One of the running jokes about the difference between the English, French and German languages are how rich and efficient English is and how complicated and wordy French and German can be. We struggle with terminology here all the time, trying to come up with meaningful, efficient, and entertaining nomenclature to describe the incredibly complex thingies … Read more

The business plan: selling the entrepreneurial idea

With an estimated $800+ billion in funding available for the entrepreneur annually (even in bad times), you may think that venture capital and R&D partnership firms would be falling over each other to fund the latest wave of scientific and technological proposals. Wrong. Venture capital companies such as R&D Funding Corp., Early Stages Co., Mayfield Fund, Asset Management, and others … Read more

To be S3D you have to see

James Cameron called me the other day and told me (he never asks) I should pay more attention to 3D. I told him I’ve been involved in “3D” longer than he has been making movies, and what he really meant was Stereo-3D, or S3D. He didn’t get it, but he will. Maybe about the time I convince Jeffrey Katzenberg to … Read more

A New Model Cometh

EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 eases into subscription model with EA Approved server partners — it’s not a bad thing.