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Are you seeing the trend for increasing performance? Computing Intel CPU multicore (currently, 8 cores) NVIDIA/AMD GPU multicore (currently, hundreds of cores) Storage Fusion-IO Drive multiple flash RAM modules (currently, hundreds of [...]
The rumor mill has been buzzing, once again, about the possibility of a new iPhone. Apple's Senior VP, Phil Schiller, mentioned that June is the normal release time for new iPhones, and the last 2 years have been right around that timeframe. So wh [...]
Talk in the rumor mill keeps flying to the topic of Apple needing to release a Netbook to survive this economic downturn. There have also been ongoing rumors that Apple will release a Mac Tablet - essentially a large version of the iPod Touch or iPh [...]
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I incorporated a start-up company called 3oc, Inc., in Kirkland, WA, a few years ago. However, the name, 3oc, often was confusing to explain. Is it 3oc, threeoc, three0c, etc. The venture has since been re-incorporated under a different name (and st [...]
Techspansion announces it's "closing its virtual doors." According to the developer..."VisualHub, AudialHub, and iSquint have been discontinued. The Support Forum and Support E-mail will be available for a while longer to take care of any remaining issu [...]
Podcast interview (Listen Now!) with world-renowned, wildlife, landscape, and travel photographer Art Wolfe, as he talks about season two of his PBS TV series, "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge." This season he travels to 12 different countries and captu [...]
Spore is, without a doubt, the future of the gaming industry. That isn’t to say that it has its draw backs, but it is the first non-MMO that I have played to date that is so intertwined with the next evolution in gaming, user generat [...]
I just read The New York Times article, As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll. While it is true that there is more significant and monetary damage that occurs when a web page or cloud computing servers go down than there used to be, it is n [...]
Apple has multiple revenue streams. The items that are most often noted are: Macs, iPods, and iPhones. However, there are other things that contribute to Apple's bottom line. The diagram below gives an overview: [Blue = hardware; Orange = sof [...]
Microsoft has several products that are monopolies and hold dominant market share positions: Windows Office Internet Explorer As the Microsoft Empire continues to march on we are beginning to see the chinks in the armor. In the past we hav [...]
The main bottleneck in computers today is not the CPU, but the mechanical hard disk drive (HDD). When an application mostly waits on the CPU to get things done, it's called compute bound. On the other hand when it's mostly waiting to get data in or ou [...]
If you search the web for companies leading the current Radio Frequency identification revolution you will quickly run into a company called Digital Angel. Their broad array of RFID products delivers functional value to markets as diverse as livestoc [...]
With thousands upon thousands of social networks already launched, and more coming in the ongoing social network wars what are reasonable valuations? Is this irrational exuberance? Will the companies that buy them ever make their money back? MyS [...]
Today I would like to share with you an interview with an outstanding fine art photographer by the name of Gary Hamburgh. Before we get into the interview, however, let me briefly introduce Gary to you.I have known Gary and his family on a personal level [...]
I wrote a while back about the Downfall of the Microsoft Empire. In that article I wrote about all Microsoft's competitors and how they were attacking Microsoft on all fronts. I digress, with today's news that Microsoft made a $44.6B offer to buyout [...]
Apple has some of the best products in the world. They have world-class hardware: Macintosh computers, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV; and world-class software: Mac OS X, OS X, iTunes, iLife, Final Cut Studio, Safari, etc. However, there are improvements I w [...]
Bandwidth costs greatly impact profit margins of organizations that deliver enormous amounts of data. Several products and services that are immediately impacted by bandwidth costs are: Content Sites Fancast Flickr Hulu Internet Archi [...]
Companies that can make a comeback: AMD AOL Dell eBay E*Trade Friendster Jamba Juice Sony Transmeta Washington Mutual Yahoo Companies that have already made a comeback: Apple Disney Intel Merck Nintendo Sam [...]
Ever worry about losing something valuable to you? Of course we all do. Now what if there was a way you could instantaneously track down whatever was lost or stolen? Welcome to the world of RFID –Radio Frequency Identification- the fut [...]
Who would have thought that the third largest retailer in the world would go small instead of big? With Wal-Mart and Costco eating up the “Mom and Pop” stores, it is not a bet that many retailers would be willing to make. You may not have heard [...]
The computing platform is what matters. It's one thing if you're the big fish with THE platform. But what do you do when you're the small fish, your competitor already owns the dominant platform, and has millions of customers? How do you switch cust [...]
People seem to think Apple is a big, risk-taking company. That is true, but the risks they take are calculated ones. The switch from IBM PowerPC to Intel x86 chips was a big risk at the time -- given the possibility of alienating Apple's customer ba [...]
Pervasive Software is a company focused on dealing with the complexity of multicore CPU architectures. Much of the current software out there does not take advantage of multicore CPUs; thus, many systems are utilizing their hardware inefficiently. T [...]
Google Book Search initiative has met some resistance with publishers. Nevertheless, Google has been steadily scanning a significant portion of the world's books and putting portions of them online to browse and purchase. The significance of this is [...]
Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zeroconf that is included with Mac OS X. Bonjour is a service discovery protocol which has the primary function of discovery services on a local area network (LAN). It uses multicast Domain Name System (DNS) ser [...]