Qualcomm Snapdragon Speed

Qualcomm keeps cranking out faster processors. The first benchmarks on the MSM 8960 look pretty impressive. Read the full Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Preview story at AnandTech.

Broadcasting from Barcelona

Next week I will be doing a live broadcast from Barcelona, Spain during Mobile World Congress. Come back to this page on Monday, February 27th at 6:00 PM in Barcelona (that's 9:00 AM on Monday in San Diego) and talk to me live. See the full story at QDevNet.

Hockey Robot

Canadians aren't especially known for their scientific innovations, but who else would make a hockey robot?  I love it.  Clearly we just needed to provide the right incentives to Canadian scientists.  What else can we combine with hockey?  Genetic engineering?  Nuclear power?  Let's get these hosers in the game.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/canadians-teach-darwin-to-ice-skate-play-hockey

Trusted Computing

When you entrust your information to a format you can't control you lose control of that information.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

Pitching Snapdragon in Barcelona

Here's a video of me in the Qualcomm booth at Mobile World Congress 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

I'm No Lawyer

I spend a lot of time looking at copyright law and a few other areas related to digital media but sadly, I am not an attorney. However, there is a William Frantz, Esquire located in Murrieta, not too far from where I live. Apparently he prefers to use his middle name, "Mike" but don't hold that against him if you are looking for an attorney named William Frantz.

Murieta, CA

Robert Coles

William Frantz Elementary School gathered a little more fame recently. It turns out that Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Coles attended William Frantz in 1960 when Ruby Bridges ended segregation. Coles writes about that day in a new book called Handing One Another Along published today, August 31.