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Embedded World – Nuremberg

Thursday, February 28, 2013

By Jim Harrison In traversing the various isles at this huge show, one can’t help but think this is a true engineer’s paradise. This is a true EE’s show with no consumer stuff and nothing that would interest anyone but EEs. There is also serious overload here. There must be a hundred different makers of [...]

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Processors for Raspberry Pi and Arduino CoMs

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

by Jim Harrison Two popular low cost computer-on-modules (CoM) are the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino. Raspberry Pi reportedly sold out the 11,000 unit first production run in one day. So what’s the big deal? Price of $25 or $35 is the big deal. With HDMI and Ethernet 10/100 and USB connections, the credit card [...]

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Need some recipe suggestions for Raspberry Pi

Friday, December 21, 2012

So, recently, our friends at Newark / element14 were kind enough to send over a complete Raspberry Pi kit for us to tinker with. ^This is what a full Raspberry Pi kit looks like straight out of the box (hard to believe this is a full computer here)^ We’ve covered most of the basics surrounding [...]

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Western Digital told to pay

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

By Jim Harrison Disk drive maker Western Digital has lost an arbitration action in response to charges of misappropriation of confidential information and has been told to pay Seagate $25M. Western Digital says it will continue to fight the suit started in 2006 after a former Seagate employee hired by Western Digital allegedly shared confidential [...]

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Data storage is the next big thing

Saturday, September 10, 2011

We have the famous ‘Internet of things’, and now and we also have the ‘storage of things’. During a recent discussion at IBM’s offices in San Francisco, VP Steve Wojtowecz talked about the explosion of data and the storage it needs and how companies are trying to deal with it. IBM expects there will be [...]

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Market Creation: In Tablets Or Otherwise, Success Requires Meaningful Differentiation

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

By Brian Dipert I’ve found myself of late pondering the tablet computer market both in an absolute sense and relative to the cellular handset business. Consider that Apple near-singlehandedly created the smartphone market with the first-generation iPhone, unveiled in January 2007 and shipping beginning in June of that same year. Google responded with the T-Mobile [...]

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‘Computer’ is dying

Thursday, June 2, 2011

“Have you noticed,” a colleague remarked to me today, ” that we no longer call computers ‘computers’? Here’s my iPhone. It’s a computer, but we never call it a computer.” He went on to say that the only thing we call a computer has a keyboard, such as a desktop or a laptop. It’s true. [...]

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