I recently got a new phone, a Motorola Droid X2 to be precise. I have a few other phones, a Nokia N95, an iPhone, and a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Because of tariffs and roaming ...
Ever since the GPU up-ended the FLOPS curve and pointed it skyward we’ve been measuring ourselves by how we’re moving erlative to Moore’s law GPU technology is moving faster than the development of process technology ...
As I was registering at the Dimension3 stereovision conference in Paris last week I did a double take when I looked at a large (42-inch) display next to the counter that was showing a black ...
As we were putting this issue together The Burson-Marsteller FaceGate scandal was just breaking. At the time it seemed like a very big deal, but as of print time, the stench is already evaporating. I’m ...
Last week’s announcements about new tablets, were hardly news. There are announcements every week now about new tablets. The latest announcement from Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos saying his company will release a tablet based on ...
We’re only a third of the way into 2011 and already it’s been marked with tremendous and sometimes horrendous events; earthquakes, tornados, civilian uprisings, killings by terrorists and the killing of a terrorist, and changes ...
Just got back from COFES in sunny warm Scottsdale Arizona. Ensconced in the conference at a resort, and venturing out only at night to nearby restaurants, we were immune to the tremendous political stress this ...
At least once a week someone asks us how many gamers are there? We then have to go into a long series of questions to qualify the answer so we can try to quantify it: ...
And all the other phrases and acronyms we live with Have you ever wondered how you would explain the technological developments of the past ten years, or the forecast for new technology without using the ...
No they don’t…ah… I’ve been having this debate with myself, my colleagues, and almost anyone who will listen to me for more than 30 seconds, about the game publishers unjustified bias against PC games and ...
It is amazing to see the gold rush fever that’s happening over tablets — no, it’s astounding. Doesn’t seem like anyone’s had an original idea since Apple introduced the iPad and yet everyone plans on ...
Parallel processing is the future. It is how we will increase our processing capability without having to double the clock speed of processors every other year. But parallel processing requires generating parallel processing programs. And ...
