It’s been a while since I visited the topic of Taiwan’s pivotal role in the global technology supply chain. So, it’s long overdue for some not-so-shameless plugging of news involving my favorite island country’s technology industry and the impact they’ve had on the technology space: HTC shipped the first mobile phone to run Google’s Android [...]
Although my good friend Teresa might not want to admit it, print media is dying. After all, why buy an unwieldy stash of paper when blogs and online web versions of newspapers (crazy idea huh?) can do the trick? Well, Ben Claassen III (always gotta show some support for another Ben) came up with some [...]
I’m a big fan of Firefox (and much of open source). And I’m all for Taiwan’s prominent position in the tech industry. So, of course, I had to post about the adorable mascot of the Taiwanese Firefox/Mozilla community, Foxmosa (HT: Mozilla Links): From Mozilla Links: The design of Foxmosa was done by Taiwanese illustrator, Tatit, [...]
Having been thoroughly chewed out by Charles and Teresa and Lester for using Blogger’s very poor commenting system, I’ve finally jumped ship and am now using the Web-2.0-enabled Disqus platform for commenting which we currently use (and which I’ve become a big fan of) on Xhibiting and Bench Press. Now, I and readers of this [...]
I recently read The Race for a New Game Machine, a new book which details the trials and tribulations behind the creation of the chips (which run on the POWER architecture, hence the title of this post) which powered Microsoft’s Xbox360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 next-gen gaming consoles. The interesting thing that the book reveals [...]
I’m a bit late to this story, but it’s about time Presidential portraits were brought into the 21st Century. Mr. Obama goes to Washington – and gets the first presidential portrait taken with a digital camera (and I’m sure along the way he downloaded a H264 movie on his laptop, immediately converted it to flash [...]
Last week, I posted on Creative’s “ambitious” ad campaign for their new Zii product, the one laden with “intense” PR-speak proclaiming the dawn of an age of “stem cell computing”. Well, as expected, this was somewhat overhyped. Now, don’t get me wrong the Zii chip architecture (block diagram to the left) is very innovative. The [...]
Tech PR has a bad reputation – and for a good reason. While my blogs have never been popular enough that I’ve been inundated with PR requests, as a consultant, I have spent endless hours sifting through meaningless “hot” buzzwords written by individuals who seem to know very little about the products/services they are peddling. [...]
I recently made a post on Bench Press about the potential for distributed computing (projects like Folding@Home and SETI@Home which combine the computing power from volunteers over the internet to do supercomputer style calculations) to help any initiative needing extra number-crunching power, as well as steps that the scientific and distributed computing communities can take [...]