The Linaro-hosted “Enterprise Group” (LEG) is dedicated to accelerate Linux ARM server ecosystem development and extends the list of Linaro members beyond ARM silicon vendors to Server OEM’s and commercial Linux providers.
Fleur Pellerin Interview, French Minister of IT
Posted by – December 31, 2013
Here’s my quick interview with Fleur Pellerin, she is a politician and minister delegate in the French government. She was appointed Minister Delegate with responsibility for Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and the Digital Economy attached to the Minister for Economic Regeneration (the former Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industry) by French President François Hollande on 16 May 2012. After my part in English that lasts 1 minute 55 seconds, I also filmed some of what she said to some other media in French.
My question is about what the Government can do to speed up Technological innovation, from Startups, to established small to medium sized companies to the big Tech companies in society. At the end I also try to ask if there is any chance that the French Government would re-introduce the Socialist party’s idea of Global Licence, an idea of introducing taxation at the ISP-level to finance arts and culture, pay artists, pay musicians/film makers/writers even bloggers and programmers is what I think could be good. Not to replace all existing monetization for content on the web, but to supplement it and to stop trying to put children in jail who pirate content on the Internet or to punish them by cutting off their Internet access.
My opinion is that Government has a big role to play in trying to help speed up Technological Innovation worldwide. Not just to let companies do what they want, where so much relies on the good intentions and good judgement of a few giant corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Intel, I think that Governments should do the most possible to speed innovation forward in the best interest of all the people. That is to enable the usage of Smartphones, Smart devices, Apps ecosystems, etc to improve society for all citizen, to fix certain problems like health, food, education, accomodation, jobs, transportation, the economy, all those can be fixed by clever use of the existing potential of technology. I wonder if all those solutions do appear if Government just sit back and wait for big enterprises or for small new startups to become big enough successes fast enough to decide to develop and implement each of these technological solutions to fix each problem in society when they think it can be profitable enough for them or for when they think they have a good enough reason to provide solutions for each problem.
Here you can see Fleur Pellerin’s keynote discussion Q&A in English at LeWeb 2013:
And there was also another French Minister at LeWeb 2013, Arnaud Montebourg, who did some great performance in his Q&A answering questions from Tech Investors:
Lapka Breathalyzer and PEM, Geiger, EMF, Organic and Temperature/Humidity Sensors
Posted by – December 31, 2013
Lapka releases this new Breathalyzer for iOS and Android, they also have their Lapka personal environment monitor PEM kit, that connects to your Android/iOS phone to measure, collect data and analyze your surroundings. Lapka’s PEM kit features 1 Geiger counter (measure radiation around you), 1 EMF (High Frequency and Low Frequency electromagnetic fields) sensor, 1 Organic sensor (nitrate measurement in fruits and vegetables) and 1 temperature/humidity sensor.
Excelitas DigiPile Proximity Sensor at 10µA (passive infrared) Veritas Detection Group
Posted by – December 31, 2013
Gregory Gallinat of Excelitas Technologies (a Veritas company), demonstrates their new DigiPile Thermopile Detector proximity sensor, ultra small consuming only 10 microamps, would for example enable a future smartphone to detect presence to turn itself on (not even need to touch the device like in the Moto X).
You can read more about these sensors here: http://www.excelitas.com/pages/product/Thermopile-Detectors-Sensors-and-Array-Modules.aspx
NAO Emotional Autonomous Humanoid Robots Interview, Bruno Maisonnier Founder of Aldebaran Robotics
Posted by – December 30, 2013
Bruno Maisonnier Founder of Aldebaran Robotics talks about his french autonomous humanoid robots, including the NAO Robot, an autonomous little humanoid robot that can interact emotionally. They are developing Robot hardware platforms, developing a Linux based operating system dedicated to humanoid robotics, understanding emotions, understanding dialog, an SDK and Tools to enable all developers to develop apps for the Humanoid Robots in their apps store.
You can also watch the keynote video by Bruno Maisonnier at LeWeb 2013:
Nizar Romdhane, ARM Director of Media Processor Ecosystem, working with Game Engine, GPU Compute
Posted by – December 30, 2013
ARM works with the ecosystem to support the game developers to take optimally advantage of the ARM Mali Graphics, GPU Compute. ARM is to be in the core of the future of Gaming. Already dominating in Smartphones and Tablets, most Smart TVs and Set-top-boxes also use ARM, most of them are becoming Home Consoles now also, quickly closing the gap with home consoles (from Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft). In the very near future, we will probably see most high-end video games running on ARM Powered devices. Here showing the Unity Engine running at 1080p smoothly at full framerates on Exynos5420 with ARM Mali-T628 with OpenGL ES 3.0. Working closely with developers, working closely with Google collaborating on the tools for development of advanced video games. Supporting the most advanced video-games on the latest Android.
Latest ARM Server solutions booths tour
Posted by – December 30, 2013
Showing off the latest Applied Micro 64bit X-Gene ARM Server Development Board (which Rob Savoye of Linaro eagerly wants to start playing with), Dell’s 64bit ARM Server solution running Fedora 19, working on a proof of concept for early 2014 for Dell’s key cloud server customers (Google? Amazon?) before going into mass production (Dell already did some 32bit ARM Server tests in Europe with some customers), some things like Oracle JDK still has to fully come over (needs some tuning) to the platform. This is just me walking kind of randomly around some of the ARM Server demo area at the ARM Techcon. Then checking out the HP ARM Server booth, showing off some of the latest HP Moonshot ARM Server solutions also talked about in HP’s Keynote at ARM Techcon, watch the official video of that keynote or my version (sitting on the front row).
James Bruce, ARM Director of Mobile Strategy, talks Next Generation Smartphones
Posted by – December 29, 2013
James Bruce talks newly announced ARM Mali-T720 for Entry-level and new ARM Mali-T760 for High-end devices. ARM Mali-T720 brings GPU Compute OpenGL ES 3.0 to the entry level smartphone in the next 18-24 months. AmLogic now ships Mali-T450 in their new M802 chip. James Bruce talks further of what ARM can do for the user experience, talks designing benchmarks to measure the performance of the user experience vs certain benchmarks measuring things that aren’t relevant to the user experience. The ARM Architecture ecosystem is amazing, for example, in Q2 2013, there were more ARM Cortex-A5 devices shipped than all x86 PC/Laptops combined in that quarter.
Google Glass app Glashion “OK glass, I want this!” buys anything you see
Posted by – December 29, 2013
Glashion is a Google Glass project that allows you to buy fashion products that you are looking at. Look at any fashionable bag or dress on a bypasser or in a store, and then the app queries the ShopStyle API for similar matches based on object recognition technology. You simply tell Glass when you see a product, “Ok glass, I want this!” and you can then buy the product with a blink. At least that is their idea.
MokiMobility real-time analytics for Android app developers
Posted by – December 29, 2013
MokiMobility is a cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) platform and development company which specializes in single-purpose iOS and Android devices. MokiMobility is the first cloud-based platform for managing, monitoring, and securing tablets and smart phones.
streamroot 4K p2p video streaming over HTML5 WebRTC for FranceTV
Posted by – December 28, 2013
Stream for example 4K video for cheaper bandwidth costs as all users can upload using this p2p live video streaming technology from http://www.streamroot.io/ StreamRoot is a JavaScript/HTML5 solution which optimizes the bandwidth consumption of your video streaming platform by turning the mass of simultaneous viewers to advantage. When a user streams a video on your website, he connects to the other viewers watching the same video and downloads parts of it directly from them. StreamRoot is based on HTML5 and uses WebRTC so there is no plugin or application to install for the end user
David Hornik at LeWeb 2013
Posted by – December 28, 2013
David Hornik is an investor at August Capital and he talks about ventural capitalism with Web startups, with tech companies, if he thinks that there is a new tech bubble going on now with Facebook/Twitter/etc or not.
And here’s the US VC Roundtable at LeWeb 2013:
Dina Kaplan, Co-Founder, Blip at LeWeb 2013
Posted by – December 28, 2013
Category: Exclusive videos, LeWeb
She traveled all around the world over the last few years after quitting her job CEO of Blip.tv.
You can watch her keynote at LeWeb 2013 here:
Reach Tech Smartphones and Tablets
Posted by – December 27, 2013
Reach Tech is a Shenzhen based company of smart phones and tablets that both manufactures and develops products. Reach Tech currently employs 100 people for research and development. Reach Tech is a Qualcomm partner. Reach tech makes a 5.5″ (720p) smartphone with Qualcomm MSM8225Q processor. Reach tech makes a much smaller 3.5″ device. Reach Tech also makes a tablet with an iPad Mini screen. Prices on all the devices are unspecified.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013
Carbon Design Systems architectural analysis and pre-silicon firmware development
Posted by – December 27, 2013
Carbon Design Systems is a seller of virtual prototypes for ARM Processor makers in partnership with ARM to enable architectural analysis and pre-silicon firmware development. Carbon Design Systems has been around for 12 – 13 years. Carbon Design Systems employs around 40 people. Virtual prototyping is the process of creating a computer designed prototype before a physical prototype is created. Carbon Design Systems helps ARM processor manufacturers by doing virtual prototyping for them. Carbon Design Systems provides its design systems for major companies such as Samsung.
Intrinsic Snapdragon 800 APQ8074 Dragonboard
Posted by – December 26, 2013
This new Intrinsic Dragonboard uses as Snapdragon 800 processor and has an optional display. The Dragonboard is capable of playing 4k video. The Dragonboard can even run Ubuntu. The dragonboard is already available for a price of 499 USD. INTRINSYC makes both system on module designs for 200 USD as well as development boards.
Zhongkewei K3V2, Actions, and MT8389 Tablets and PCBs
Posted by – December 26, 2013
Zhongkewei makes a K3V2 Android tablet with a 10″ (1280×800) screen as well as a K3V2 pcb. Zhongkewei tablets also come in 8″ variants. Zhongkewei sells around 5,000 tablets per month. The 8″ version sells for 130 USD for 1,000 pieces and 150 USD for the 10″ version. Zhongkewei also makes a MTK 8389 device for 130 USD with 3g built in. The actions CPU 7″ tablet with TV function sells for 120 USD.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013
AMD at ARM Techcon 2013
Posted by – December 26, 2013
AMD in 2014 will be delivering a 64bit ARM processor for servers. The ARM Architecture and Ecosystem enables servers to achieve greater performance per watt and greater performance per dollar. The code name for the product is Seattle. AMD Seattle is expected to reach mass market cloud servers in the second half of 2014.
Diadem 55 USD MT6572, NFC MT6572 99 USD, MT6589 100 USD, Qualcomm 5″ FHD 195 USD
Posted by – December 25, 2013
Diadem is manufacturer of mobile devices which sells around 100,000 – 200,000 devices every month. Diadem makes devices with both Qualcomm and MTK processors. Diadem makes a MTK 6572 based device for around 55 USD. Another MTK 6572 device with NFC sells for 99 USD. Diadem makes a MTK 6589 device with 5″ screen for 100 USD. For 195 USD Diadem makes a 5″ FHD device with a Qualcomm processor and NFC. Diadem makes a much smaller device for a MTK 6572 processor. Diadem makes a water proof feature phone for 37 USD.
Atmel Sensor Hub Solutions
Posted by – December 25, 2013
Atmel shows their latest Sensor Hub microcontroller solutions. Here showing a demo showing accurate controlling and measuring with 3d tracking. Showing also a true virtual reality augmented reality 3D accelerated software demo.
