Vitrium Systems

The rain continues to come down here in Taipei, Taiwan, and so do the vast number of E-book readers, slates and tablet coming to market.  It is the 30^th meeting of Computex Taipei, and wow, I am excited about the future.  Consider that there is a paradigm shift occurring here in Taipei away from the PC (or personal computing) to mobile computing!

On May 25^th I attended the SIIA NetGain Conference and Technology Innovation Tour in San Francisco, California, to Adobe Systems, Google and Apple.  I was at Apple Corporate Headquarters standing in the Apple Store examining the new iPad.  Slick doesn’t begin to describe what Steve Jobs has done in transforming already 2 million folks away from their PC’s to mobile computing!  So, where is the Microsoft supported version of this really cool device?  Well, look no further I found a ton of them here in Taipei at Computex!

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This is my third time attending Computex Taipei in ten years.  This year marks the 30^th year that this party has been going on and the magnitude of this conference continues to grow.  To facilitate the madness, this year’s show is being held in four separate venues across the city. Candidly, there is too much to see, try 5,000 booths with supermodels and promotional giveaways abound. What recession, tech is sizzling!

There are lots of new chips being announced, it is hard to keep up with all their names and the collision of the CPU and the GPU on a single piece of silicon.  Day two was really iPad killer day at the show, also netbook killer day as tablets are back!

Intel introduced the next generation of Atom Chips for netbooks, tablets and smartphones which will ship by the end of the year. Qualcomm is out and shipping their third generation Snapdragon chips. AMD demonstrated two of their Fusion accelerated processing units. The Ontario and the Llano will ship in the first half of 2011.

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It’s the first day of Tools of Change in New York! For the next two days, Vitrium Systems will be there and we’re looking forward to listening to all the speakers, but a few in particular:

• Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) of O’Reilly Media is one of the keynotes and his talk is titled “The Future of Digital Distribution and Ebook Marketing”. We’re especially excited to hear what he thinks the next generation of digital distribution infrastructure is going to look like. If you’re at TOC, make sure to catch his talk at 2:25pm Wednesday in the Broadway Ballroom.

• Sameer Shariff of iPublishCentral is another keynote speaker. His speech, “The Next Generation of Ebooks – Invent It or Witness It!” is not to be missed if you’re interested in finding out how ebook publishers are pushing the envelope and creating innovative ways to leverage technology to develop the next generation of ebooks. Don’t miss Sameer at 10:45am on Tuesday in the Wilder Room.

• Scott Sigler of Dark Overlord Media is speaking to both authors and publishers about the pros and cons of authors partnering with publishers versus publishing independently. “Who Needs You, Big Publishing? How Authors Can Own All Rights and Make More Money” is at 1:10pm on Wednesday in the Broadway Ballroom.

If you’re at TOC this week, check out these keynote speakers and tell us what you thought.

And don’t forget to stop by booth #19 for your chance to win an Apple iPad!

With only a few days left until O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference in New York, we’re gearing up to make sure it’s a great experience. Peter Nieforth and Mark James, our CEO and Business Development and Product Management Director are going to be there. So make sure you drop by the Vitrium Systems booth and see what they’re giving away. Click here to find out!

One of the main topics that this year’s TOC conference is focusing on are new technologies that are changing the publishing industry and helping to create a more profitable future for it. That’s where Vitrium comes in. We want to showcase to large and small publishers how they can begin to track and monitor their electronic content if they aren’t already and if they are, how they can do it in an affordable and user-friendly way.

We’ll make sure to keep you posted about TOC and who we’re excited to hear speak!