Jon’s amazing birthday back page
Aye, Jon, I’m afraid we’ve got a wee bit of a problem. It’s Jontober here in Tiburon, when people from all over the world come to celebrate my birthday and bring me gifts. Each year ...
Running scared – runnin’ fast
I was pleased to see that a major three-letter market research firm has caught up with us and now agrees that the PC industry will probably have a nice 12% to 14% year-to-year growth in ...
Can game developers survive in London?
THE CROWDS WERE THIN at ECTS in London. How many game exhibits and conferences does one city need in one week? Well, it's London it's the first week of September, and the answer is six. ...
Chasing pixels
People ask from time to time, “What do you do?” People who don’t know me ask that question, assuming I actually do something—it’s because I’m such a snappy dresser and drive such a nice car, ...
What is a handheld device?
What is it? Well, obviously it’s something you can hold in your hand. So under that broad definition we might have to include the nozzle of a gas pump as a handheld device. OK, then ...
Life’s not that bad
When I think about what it was like to use a computer in the sixties compared to using a computer today it makes all those little problems we deal with every day seem kind of ...
Too much is not enough
Ever heard me say that? Ever been near me for more than 20 minutes? And no, I’m not talking about supersizing or the world’s growing problem with obesity; I’m talking about technology. In computer graphics ...
Just what the heck is digital TV?
Unless you’ve been in deep freeze waiting for millennium meltdown or Longhorn, most countries are either in the process of, or have a schedule for, the introduction of and then the cut-over to all digital ...
Games in your hands
We see huge growth in the handheld game market. It’s a market that has three or four segments: dedicated game-only handhelds such as Nintendo’s Game-boy, mobile phone game machines like Nokia’s N-Gage, PDA game machines ...
VolksVideo
Philo Farnsworth, inventor of television, died in 1971, disappointed with how the medium had turned out. “He foresaw something a little more useful to the public,” said his biographer Donald Godfrey. You got video, ...
Graphics processors are a parallel universe
It’s spring and a new crop of graphics processors are being readied for market and I’m very excited about what’s coming. I was going to say graphics processors are so cool—but then I would have ...
The war of the hand
Two gigantic camps are forming for a war of the hand. One is the incumbent Nokia/Symbian-TI axis, and the other is the bullies from PC-land, Intel-Microsoft. Nowhere in the history of technology has a market ...