Event Info 2015_4: Game Deveopers Conference 2015

Game developers Conference 2015
March 2-6, 2015
Mascone Center, San Francisco, CA
Expo: March 4-6, 2015

As a game developer you must have already visited the GDC site. If you have missed here are some details.

Developer focused Game Developers Conference 2015 begins March2. 
Hurry up, the registration closes tomorrow, Feb 25, 2015.
Microsoft, Sony, Intel are presenting the sponsored sessions:

 

Visual design highlighted sessions

 

Highlighted developer sessions

 

 

Highlighted Business related sessions

 

 

 

 

Details here:
http://www.gdconf.com/
Lots of Tutorials here:
http://www.gdconf.com/conference/tutorials.html (Monday and Tuesday)

Conference Stop: London, England - IoT World Forum 2014

Explore the future of IoT and learn how IoT makes a tectonic shift in how we live and communicate.

Communication companies; software and cloud vendors; and the sensor and sensor gateway companies come together in this conference in London, England during November 25-26, 2014.

Speaker list includes professional from all of these companies and more.

More details here:

Agenda:
http://iotinternetofthingsconference.com/conference-agenda/
Registration:

http://iotinternetofthingsconference.com/registration/

I just had a look at some of the 'things' related companies as we are all familiar with 'communication' and 'software and cloud' companies and they do have a lot to say.

Here is a video from 'Net4Things'



Here are screen shots that summarizes the activities of two other companies, Neul (www.neul.com) meaning 'Cloud' in Gaelic and Libelium.

neul

 

Libelium



Research in Motion goes for Microsoft's exFAT

This deal will be one of several taht Microsoft signed with others such as, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon (all Japanese). The motivation for RIMM is to be able to face Apple and Google squarely in the face and of course it aligns with Microsoft's wish as well.

exFAT created for flash drives has better specs than the FAT system (which is not all that fat, could not stiffle the pun) in terms of file sizes (32 exabytes vs 32GB), formatting size, files in a directory limits all eliminated. Vista was not popular but exFAT was made its debut in Vista SP1. You may ask why not NTFS but NTFS has overheads for its special structure not suited for a small footprint.

exFAT is not just for Microsoft windows you can use it on MAC as well for models later than with SnowLeopard (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2790170?start=0&tstart=0)

Well, good luck to you RIMM.


Get a some more tech info here:
http://www.on-time.com/rtos-32-docs/rtfiles-32/programming-manual/in-embedded-applications/

Of course there is a lot on Wikipedia as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
 

End of days for Cathode Ray TV Tubes

On hearing that Sony is going to stop making TV CRTs...

This endangered species is facing imminent extinction, but you will not regret it. This is yet another dinosaur fading away.

I personally feel great loss as I used to harvest the High Voltage sources from thrown away TV sets to power my lasers during Sydney days.