Grandma used to tell me, Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire. Grandma was right about most things. Who’s buying who or building what? There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the CPU and GPU companies. ...
Not small as in Lilliputian or pygmy, or small as in weak or puny, but, well, tiny, and shrinking all the time. E. F. Schumacher popularized the notion, and the term, in his landmark 1971 ...
If you write for a living, expressing your opinion and making forecasts, you can be expected to make a few mistakes. When that happens, it can be embarrassing. In the extreme it can be damaging ...
If the markets we serve continue to consolidate I may have to go to work for a living—gack! What company would have me? I’m old, cranky, have an inflated opinion of my worth, and I’m ...
Companies need a venue—they are hungry for a place to speak I remember the party we had in 2001, the “Thank god we don’t have to go to Comdex” party. We had it several times ...
I went to the doctor the other day, to see about a persistent pain in my right shoulder. I told the doctor that my wife thinks it’s from lifting heavy weights (like suitcases into the ...
That’s not technically accurate and maybe a little cruel, but it’s a great headline and not completely off the mark. The stuff that we take for granted today, mip-mapping, texture mapping, z-buffers, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, ...
Did you ever stop to think about all the portable media players we have? I’m not even a media freak and I have several. My phones, for example, will play MP3 tunes for me, if ...
The nice warm press center at Cebit is packed with journalists testing the capability of wireless.. (Photo: Jon Peddie Research) This year Cebit and IDF fall at the same time so JPR is splitting up ...
The road goes on forever and the party never ends The party never ends at Cebit. (Photo: JPR) I can’t stand too much more fun. That’s all this is, y’know, fun, fun, fun, ’til daddy ...
3GSM, the gathering of the mobile phone industry in Europe, opened with sunshine and big ambitions. The town is booked solid with big-shot executives begging for reservations for the hot restaurants on Valentine’s Day like ...
To read the press and speak with industry leaders you’d think the whole world revolved around trade shows. They plan product launches, special events, and announcements, and even small stage shows for them. To give ...
