5th March 2012
Another breakfast briefing by Strategy Analytics discussed the connected everything. Your car will become a mobile WiFi hotspot. Using sensors and your mobile phone you'll be constantly hooked up to a virtual hospital monitoring every heartbeat. And - of course - everything in your home will be connected to everything else and they will all be connected to a smart meter which in turn will be connected to the national grid etc etc.
This theme was…
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29th February 2012
The atmosphere of Day 2 felt much more business-like, with some of the novelty of Day 1 wearing off and the serious business of client, partner, supplier and analyst discussions being the focus for attendees.
My day started by attending a briefing by a market research company Strategy Analytics on what they see as key dynamics in the marketplace. The presentation focussed on the predicted huge growth in network traffic over the next few years, driven in the main…
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28th February 2012
Anticipation…excitement...curiosity...all of these feelings were apparent in abundance as the crowds streamed up the avenue this morning in front of the Wolfson booth under a clear blue spring sky in Barcelona. The Wolfson team were in place and ready to rock, final adjustments were made to the meeting plan, the demos were fired up and the organisers even switched on a couple of dozen fountains outside our booth to give us a nice added background frequency for…
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30th November 2011
Jimmy Iovine, music producer and chairman of Interscope-Geffen A&M and Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, are today's towering celebrity Audiophile heroes. With their Beats brand, they have been tirelessly driving a movement to allow consumers to hear music and other media the way that creators and producers intended it to be heard. How many of us when we see on TV footage of an artists recording studio, with desks the length of a car covered in knobs, dials and sliders, equate that to the tiny…
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10th October 2011
In the not too distant past, you would be forgiven for believing that the semiconductor content within most consumer electronics was melding together into one single super device that would not only handle your processing, but also your Bluetooth, FM radio, GPS, Audio as well as making the tea and doing the laundry. "Integration" was all, in the name of cost and space. Those of us close to it knew that billows of smoke and more mirrors than a department store's cosmetic department were being…
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