Zinn on Brexit - Video
July 08, 2016The UK has ceded form the EU. Does that mean the sky is falling, or is it much ado about nothing, particularly in the technology space? That’s the key question I posed to Ray Zinn, the former CEO of M
Zinn on Autonomous Cars - Video
June 30, 2016Autonomous cars are coming, whether you like it or not. The biggest unknown to this point is when. The other variable is just how autonomous they’ll be. Do you sit in the back seat and work or snooze?
Zinn on Big Brother - Video
June 24, 2016The technology is available to monitor peoples’ action 24/7. Is that a good thing? That’s a good question, and one that I asked of someone who made that technology available, Ray Zinn, the former CEO
Zinn on when to pull the plug on your startup - Video
June 17, 2016Many startups are based on varying parts of inspiration, perspiration, and finances, amongst other ingredients. If you’re the person adding at least one of those ingredients, it may be difficult to se
Zinn On When to Pull the Plug on Your Startup - Video
June 17, 2016Many startups are based on varying parts of inspiration, perspiration, and finances, amongst other ingredients.
IoT Roadshow, Austin, TX - Octavo: Complete BeagleBone Black in a Module - Video
June 14, 2016Octavo is led by long-time T.I.er Gene Frantz. The company has taken a BeagleBone Black development board and shrunk it down to a small module. Hence, you do your design work on the full-size board, b
Zinn on who to invest in - Video
June 10, 2016Since retiring from Micrel, after 37 years at the helm, Ray Zinn is now an investor. In his bird’s eye view, he gets more than his share of folks approaching him looking for funds. This week’s discuss
Zinn On Who to Invest In - Video
June 10, 2016Since retiring from Micrel, after 37 years at the helm, Ray Zinn is now an investor. In his bird’s eye view, he gets more than his share of folks approaching him looking for funds.
IoT Roadshow, Massachusetts - Nuance: No Good Reason Not to Add Voice Input - Video
June 03, 2016Nuance does voice recognition. That means that it offers an entryway into a ton of cool applications.
Zinn on valuations of hardware companies verses software companies - Video
June 02, 2016It’s no secret that software companies are valued higher than hardware companies, even though, in many cases, they don’t have a tangible product to sell. So why are they worth more? That’s a great que
IoT Roadshow, San Jose: Cadence: Your engineers are located where? - Video
June 01, 2016I had a brief encounter with Cadence’s Krishna Balachandran, who is responsible for low-power products. As you can see in the video, I handled the toughest part of the interview — pronouncing Krishna’
IoT Roadshow, Milpitas, CA ? Sierra Monitor: Giving intelligence to non-smart devices, part one - Video
June 01, 2016When we went to Sierra Monitor to shoot a video for the IoT Roadshow, they were more than prepared for us. In fact, they took matters into their own hands — literally.
IoT Roadshow, Milpitas, CA: Sierra Monitor: Giving intelligence to non-smart devices, part two - Video
June 01, 2016When we went to Sierra Monitor to shoot a video for the IoT Roadshow, they were more than prepared for us. In fact, they took matters into their own hands — literally. In part 2 of the video demo, Kel
IoT Roadshow, Milpitas, CA: Silicon Motion: Dazzle users with embedded graphics - Video
May 31, 2016Silicon Motion develops technologies for the embedded graphics subsystem within your IoT device. According to Arthur Lee, a director at the company, they do this by developing a series of SoCs that co
IoT Roadshow, San Jose - NXP: We Can Do it All (Almost) - Video
May 31, 2016The IoT roadshow took us to northern California, better known as Silicon Valley. The IoT expert: Asit Goel, who is the vice president and general manager of NXP’s IoT group.
IoT Roadshow, Santa Clara, CA: Renesas: Connections? We've got 'em - Video
May 31, 2016If you’re designing an IoT system that needs to communicate over various media, or you’re just not sure which one is the right one for you, Renesas has a solution. In my discussion with Jason Chieng,
IoT Roadshow, San Jose, CA: WindSpring: Size definitely matters when you're sending data - Video
May 31, 2016I saw some demos at WindSpring that really got my attention. The company takes data compression to a level that I had not seen before. One great example was a device that’s a person locator/communicat
IoT Roadshow, Massachusetts - STMicroelectronics: One-Stop Shopping for Most of Your IoT Needs - Video
May 31, 2016There are many building blocks required to put together an IoT system.
IoT Roadshow, Massachusetts: Red Hat: You're looking at this thing the wrong way - Video
May 31, 2016Red Hat has an interesting take on IoT, which I found out when our IoT Roadshow traveled up to Massachusetts. When I asked Ken Johnson, Senior Director of Product Management for Red Hat what it’s all
IoT Roadshow, Massachusetts: Red Hat: Why open source? - Video
May 31, 2016I could come up with a lot of reasons why I wouldn’t want to develop my IoT system on an open-source platform. Apparently, there are just as many reasons where the opposite thinking is true, and maybe