EDN Senior Technical Editor Brian Dipert exposes, analyzes and opines on diverse topics in technology. Follow the Brian's Brain Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/BrianzBrain. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040.html?nid=2679 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:18:33 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/620050862.html?nid=2679 Microsoft's probably feeling pretty annoyed right about now. Back in July, and just a few days before Microsoft provided business details on the cl... http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;217624134;12103198;u?http://www.actel.com/products/iglooseries/default.aspx Actel’s IGLOO family of reprogrammable, full-featured flash FPGAs is designed to meet the demanding power, area, and cost requirements of today’s portable electronics. Find out how the industry’s lowest power FPGAs will help you meet all your low power needs for your portable design. http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/320050832.html?nid=2679 I'm still chewing on and otherwise digesting the information Google provided on Chrome O/S during last week's briefing, so stay tuned for the analy... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/60050806.html?nid=2679 In past writeups, I've discussed the range-versus-frequency tradeoffs of 802.11's two ISM bands (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), along with the more fundamenta... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1390050739.html?nid=2679 A sea level follow-up to my long-running high altitude 'Thin-Air ATSC' blog series, which culminated in a recent cover story... I've reviewed a lo... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1250050725.html?nid=2679 A few weeks back, I alerted you to a rumoured release of the Google Chrome O/S source code...a heads-up that unfortunately ended up being premature... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1120050712.html?nid=2679 Some of you might recall, as contributing blogger Steve Leibson pointed out last New Year's Eve, that Microsoft had a 'bit' of trouble with its fir... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/910050691.html?nid=2679 Continued from 'Analyzing Nokia's Business: Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Success'... The O/S (and broader consumer support infrastru... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/860050686.html?nid=2679 A friend of mine (as I mentioned the other day) is currently using (and in the process, evaluating for me) the Nokia E71 handset that I previously ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/570050657.html?nid=2679 Friend and colleague Peter Glaskowsky, who's held a diversity of Silicon Valley positions over the years and who I've mentioned several times befor... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1110050511.html?nid=2679 Back in September 2007, Apple warned iPhone owners not to jailbreak and carrier-unlock their handsets, citing the potential for permanent inoperabi... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/750050475.html?nid=2679 The Hackintosh (aka OSx86, i.e. running Mac OS X on generic PC hardware) phenomenon is something I've been closely following since Apple announced ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/430050443.html?nid=2679 Two weekends ago, I noticed that my Apple TV was outputting wonky graphics from its UI, along with heavily distorted images when I attempted to pla... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1830050383.html?nid=2679 Much discourse is regularly made in the tech press regarding the single-chip integration effects of Moore's Law, and the associated extinction of c... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1560050356.html?nid=2679 One of my meal meetings at the Intel Developer Forum back in late September was with Steve Roux, Senior Strategic Business Development Manager for ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1460050346.html?nid=2679 Plenty of companies pitch me on new products, armed with nothing but a pile of PowerPoint foils. Inevitably, many of the promised chips never appea... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1200050320.html?nid=2679 A week ago, I shared with you my experiences two nights earlier watching the live stream of a U2 concert on YouTube. Although the band's performanc... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1760050176.html?nid=2679 Following up on yesterday's disappointing re-test of Gigle Semiconductor's HomePlug AV-plus powerline networking adapters, today's evaluation focus... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1550050155.html?nid=2679 Remember Google's Linux-based Chrome O/S, which I wrote about back in early July? Well surprise surprise...the company just released a beta build, ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1520050152.html?nid=2679 Back in late July, I shared my initial (and underwhelming) testing results on Belkin's Gigabit Powerline Adapters based on Gigle Semiconductor's GG... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1160050116.html?nid=2679 I'm a pretty big U2 fan, so Sunday night I caught the live streaming performance of the band's Los Angeles concert on YouTube. As I've written befo... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/450050045.html?nid=2679 My friend's DSL service was activated on Monday, and all in all it was a pretty good setup experience. Speakeasy reports that downstream speeds on ... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/180050018.html?nid=2679 Hopefully by now at least some of you have gotten a chance to peruse my Prying Eyes teardown of Microsoft's new Zune HD portable multimedia player,... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/110049811.html?nid=2679 Yesterday afternoon, I endured a half hour of pure frustration. The day before, I'd started getting grumble-email messages from my company's IT dep... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1840049784.html?nid=2679 This blog post references my feature article 'Transporting High-Def Video Broadcasts: Are Wireless Networks Up To The Task?' in EDN's August 20, 20... http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1430049743.html?nid=2679 My friend's broadband Internet aspirations unfortunately haven't been solved by the booster recently installed at her residence. Although she now h...