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CES Summary Part 3: The Processor Horse Race

Aziz Gilani — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:00:15 +0000

All three major players in the processing world had huge announcement during CES this year. All were the results of multi-year efforts, and reveal their visions of the future. ARM Although ARM isn’t a household name, its designs are the brains behind Apple’s iOS devices, along with the low power processors used in Android devices. [...]

CES Summary Part 2: Tablets Everywhere!

Aziz Gilani — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:00:57 +0000

With the exception of the Intel and Microsoft Booths, I felt like every company at CES was pitching a tablet of some ilk. This was the result of a perfect storm that was fed by 1: The incredible success of the Apple iPad 2: Seeing how Apple squandered its lead in smart phones to Android. [...]

CES Summary Part 1: Microsoft Keynote

Aziz Gilani — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:17:44 +0000

Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, gave the opening keynote at CES this year. This isn’t particularly new for him; he gave the opening keynote last year. What is different about this year are the calls that he not be invited to speak at CES again. Steve’s talk covered a few topics: Kinect: Steve announced [...]

Adobe’s Big Problem

Aziz Gilani — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:25:42 +0000

Adobe is a vibrant software veteran that has held market leadership positions as far as I can remember. Back in the early 80s, Adobe PostScript basically invented the desktop publishing market by giving laser printers the ability to handle graphical output. In the 1990s Adobe made the electronic distribution of documents mainstream with their Portable [...]

WikiLeaks Was Inevitable

Aziz Gilani — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:55:48 +0000

I will briefly ignore the morality of WikiLeaks to discuss the bigger story; how you can’t have it both ways with data. Data has become insanely portable. You can easily buy 128GB flash drives smaller than a finger. That’s more data than you can fit on a floor of a library. While the physical space [...]