I’ve talked about the regrettable 3-D TV trend at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in a separate post. But I spotted some other trends among the 2,700 exhibitors at the show as well. Gesture control and multi-touch screens: Part and parcel of good industrial hardw...

Gesture recognition is one of the most exciting new technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week. A variety of companies — inspired by the Nintendo Wii’s gesture control and the iPhone’s multi-touch screen — developing new ways to interact with gadget...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said at the International Consumer Electronics Show today that Congress should authorize more funds for converter box discounts so that more consumers will be prepared for the digital TV transition. This week, the incoming Obama administration ...

As Palm introduced the new Palm Pre phone and the Palm Web OS platform today, its executives told the story of how they hatched the plot to save the company. Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who spearheaded the iPod development, had retired from Apple and was living at a beachside home in ...

This evening I went to CES Unveiled, the beginning party for journalists at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The place was packed with the usual tech journalists. We were in our own little bubble of excitement while the world economy melted down outside. Midway through the e...

2008 has been a big year for the games market. Game sales soared to new heights this year and resisted the onset of the recession. Here’s a recap of our biggest game-market stories this year (including some links for related stories) for those of you who may have missed them: 1. T he Nintendo ...

Peter Nieh is a founder of Lightspeed Venture Partners. The venture capital firm manages over $2 billion in capital and just closed its most recent fund, Lightspeed VIII, worth $800 million, earlier this year. Some of Lightspeed’s hits include Brocade, Ciena, Informatica and Riverbed Technolog...

This year, VentureBeat wrote about 58 game companies that raised more than $500 million worth of venture capital and angel funds. That’s nothing compared to the $5 billion or so going into cleantech, but it’s probably one of the biggest years for venture investment in video game companie...

Here are my picks for the best games of the holiday season. There is a lot of violent fare here, but this is the first time that I’ve included an iPhone game on my favorites list. 1. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) Microsoft/Epic Games, Nov. 2008. Epic livened up the dark and gloomy world from the p...

Bill Watkins is always good unplugged. The chief executive of Seagate, the $13 billion Scotts Valley, Calif.-based hard disk drive maker, is trying to avoid commodity mud-wrestling and is trying to develop his own version of chip-based flash memory to replace the low-end of the hard drive market. It...