Joel Silver, president and founder of the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF), is one of the industry’s rock stars…who frequently writes articles for leading journals and also consults for organisations such as CNN, Epson, Bose, the BBC and many more.

But less known is that one of the main reasons he’s now an industry rock star is because of his work in IT: Joel is the co-inventor of the patented Microsoft Media Centre Calibration Wizard now in over 111,000,000 PCs.

Now CEDIA joins with the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) to offer a course on delivering professional services for accurate and dependable electronic imaging.

Hosted at the Panasonic Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, UK, the 3-day course will run from 17th – 19th April 2012. Continue reading...

HP announces an "organisational realignment," merging the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) with the Personal Systems Group (PSG)-- forming the Printing and Personal Systems Group.

"Combining these two entities will rationalize HP’s go-to-market strategy, branding, supply chain and customer support worldwide," a HP statement claims.

Leading the group is is PSG executive VP Todd Bradley, as IPG executive VP Vyomesh Joshii is retiring after 31 years with the company.

HP is also streamlining other Continue reading...

ARM reveals what it claims is the most energy efficient microprocessor yet-- the Cortex-MO+, a 32-bit processor the company says uses around 30% of the power a basic 8-bit processor consumes.

It is the successor to the Cortex-MO, the chip carrying the smallest ARM architecture. The MO+ retains the architecture, yet slashes power consumptions to 9µA/MHz on a low-cost 90nm LP process.

ARM says the MO+ chip can find a variety of applications-- not necessarily mobile devices, but home appliances, Continue reading...

As DVD and Blu-Ray disk sales continue dropping and services of the Ultraviolet variety come and go, Hollywood now looks at storage makers Western Digital and SanDisk for new anti-piracy initiatives.

Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox, SanDisk and Western Digital are forming the Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA)-- a group aiming to "create and license solutions" allowing users to purchase (and play) HD movie files on HDDs, USB drives and SD cards.

"Project Phoenix" (working title) will allow Continue reading...

HP CEO Meg Whitman went all out to assure partners she "gets the channel" at the HP Global Partners Conference 2012, insisting the company will not turn into the software- and services-led firm Léo Apotheker wanted.

"I get what you do and appreciate the importance of what we do together," Whitman said, before describing HP's 200000-strong global channel partners as a "competitive advantage."

Channel partners have plenty of reason to be wary of HP-- during his reign at the company, Apotheker preferred to focus HP efforts away from hardware and towards enterprise services and software. Whitman does agree on the importance of software, but core printing, PC and infrastructure markets still generate 70% of HP sales.

One of the first decisions Whitman took upon becoming CEO on September 2011 was to reverse plans to sell off the $40BN PSG group in a Great Garage Sale.

Dell misses profit targets for fiscal Q4 2012 due to failing to have enough HDDs for its high margin product line-- with net income reaching $764M, a -18% Y-o-Y decline.

Company EMEA revenues see growth in Q4, increasing by 8% Y-o-Y.

On the other hand Dell revenues for Q4 total $16BN with 2% Y-o-Y growth. Revenues for fiscal 2012 reach $62BN, as Dell shifts is business strategy away from the consumer market to higher-margin enterprise markets.

The Dell consumer segment is down by 2% Y-o-Y (reaching Continue reading...

Microsoft unveils the new logo for Windows 8-- abandoning the familiar multicolour "flag" in favour of a minimalist take on the Metro design already seen within Windows 8 itself.

According to the company the new design is "Authentically Digital" by not imitating real-world materials (such as glass or wood) and "humble, yet confident." The logo will be found throughout all Windows 8 releases, and will change colour according to the user's choices of themes and preferences.

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Acer is looking for a makeover-- doubling European marketing budgets in the hopes to "change perceptions of the Acer brand," the Financial Times reports.

While the still the 2nd top PC vendor in W. Europe (following HP) Acer faces severe declines. The latest Gartner totals show European Q4 2011 Acer shipments are down by -46.1% Y-o-Y, with market share reaching 13.4% (down from 20.8 in Q4 2010).