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Enormous changes at the last minute

Nvidia buys MediaQ and boards the fast train to handheld devices  Nvidia is buying MediaQ? Now that’s a good use for all that dough Nvidia has had lying around. MediaQ has a line of controllers ...

Welcome to Siggraph … Maybe

Siggraph returns to the West Coast and cuts costs on everything from food, to panels, to signs Hey! Where are we? In order to recover from the fiasco that was Siggraph 2002 in San Antonio, ...

Where would I be, without my TV?

In 1999, when we finished our landmark Digital Entertainment Box (DEB) study, I came to the conclusion that television is the center of the universe. Ever since then, like King Arthur’s knights, I’ve searched for ...

Jon Peddie’s Cebit Awards

Going to Cebit wouldn’t be half the fun if it weren’t for the astonishing and strange things one gets to see there. Space simply does not permit showing all the wacky, wonderful, and weird things ...

Cebit 2003

The working press in the Halles of Cebit. The messages for Cebit this year are pretty much the same. The big issues are Wireless Networking for fun and profit, Recordable DVD for fun and profit, ...

Looking ahead by looking backwards

It seems like a good time to reflect on the year past. If you look at the stock trends for the year and project them forward, the JPR graphics index goes to zero February 7, ...

I came for the ride

Taipei is an amazing place, full of contradictions and surprises. The place is haven for taxi users. There are more taxis in Taipei than all of China, Korea and Alaska combined. Well, probably not, but ...