In this blog, EDN Editorial Director Maury Wright focuses on digital consumer-electronics gadgets and the converged networks that feed them with video, audio, and data. [Editor's note: As of Feb. 2008, this blog is no longer active and is presented here for archival purposes.] en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015.html Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:03:31 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1410019941.html?nid=2554 I didn’t attend the CES show. This is the second straight year that start-of-the-year management tasks have kept me from the show. In this ca... http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;219509080;12103198;y?http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exkpnt?opendocument&metc=mtxzsk National Instruments introduces PXI Semiconductor Suite, a collection of 10 new software-defined modular instruments for mixed signal chip test. View white paper to learn more. http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/120019812.html?nid=2554 Since the news about Warner came down last week indicating that the movie studio would only support Blu-ray high-definition technology going forwar... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1590018359.html?nid=2554 I don’t know why, but I remain infuriated with analysts and members of the media that continue to point out irrelevant issues in the broadban... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/900017690.html?nid=2554 Some so called experts still don’t get the challenges of Internet technology. In the recent USA Today article “Video, interactivity cou... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/720016672.html?nid=2554 I’ve heard some technology executives make some pretty strange and entertaining statements over the years. But Alereon CEO Eric Broockman rea... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/510016651.html?nid=2554 For the second time in four years, many of us in Southern California spent last week dodging a fire storm. I know that the fires aren’t exact... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/180016018.html?nid=2554 In all honesty, I still don’t have an opinion on whether we have a shortage of engineers in the US. I am constantly told that there are short... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/580015058.html?nid=2554 I just wrote a municipal Wi-Fi column for the next print issue of EDN about issues with planned deployments. A number of experts are suddenly quest... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/540015054.html?nid=2554 We’d like your opinion on a number of engineering career-oriented issues. Complete a survey today on our charity day and you will be entered ... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/410015041.html?nid=2554 It’s Wednesday night as I write this, and my son and his gang of gamers have been beating on Halo 3 for more than 24 hours excepting school a... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/260015026.html?nid=2554 How are Blackberry mobile devices and global warming related? Well it’s a tenuous link but regular EDN Europe contributor David Marsh recentl... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1960014996.html?nid=2554 I’ve been conspicuously absent from the blog world for a while. I have good excuses such as working on the launch of our video platform that ... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1180006918.html?nid=2554 I’ve been traveling nonstop the past few weeks and carrying a USA Today business section that’s a couple of weeks old. Sorry for the la... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1640006764.html?nid=2554 I spent two days last week at the Demo 07 conference where companies get six minutes on stage to demonstrate a new technology or product. By nature... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1470005947.html?nid=2554 Today in the San Diego Union Tribune, the story “Report questions iTunes’ savior status” reported a decline in sales at the iTune... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1190005919.html?nid=2554 Previously I’ve stated my opinion that the cell processor in the PS3 wouldn’t be tamed anytime soon. Indeed even the three homogenous p... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/940005894.html?nid=2554 I just ran across this blog post by Alereon CEO Eric Broockman on the smartphone replacing the PC. Alereon is a Wireless USB chip vendor and presum... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1860005786.html?nid=2554 Like most trade press sources, The EDN Network covered the major merger and acquisitions news yesterday including the Qualcomm acquisition of Airgo... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1840005784.html?nid=2554 The game console wars are going to be fun to watch for a while. The winner between the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 (PS3) will be bigger than just th... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1920005592.html?nid=2554 Since the beginning of last week, I’ve been in Europe – primarily to attend the Electronica trade show and also to visit some other com... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/90005409.html?nid=2554 I have really been hoping that Microsoft would hit a home run with the Zune player next week. And it’s not that I’m a Microsoft fan. I&... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1420005342.html?nid=2554 I was catching up on my reading this weekend and went back to a story I pulled out of the San Diego Union Tribune earlier in the week. The story &#... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/1400005340.html?nid=2554 You may well have seen stories in the last few days about a joint effort between Intel and Verizon to support PC video games in the living room. Mo... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/580005258.html?nid=2554 I browse a number of newspapers every day but make it a point of reading Kevin Maney’s Technology column in USA Today. In his Wednesday colum... http://www.edn.com/blog/150000015/post/470005247.html?nid=2554 Recently, both Texas Instruments (TI) and Ikanos announced new VDSL2-capable chip familes – that presumably will help jumpstart the telco car...