Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Nokia acquires TrollTech, a Linux company, for $153 million. In return Nokia gets Qt, a Linux-based software platform that is behind KDE, Google Earth, Opera or Skype. TrollTech also owns Qtopia, a platform for embedded Linux-base software platform for mobiles.
The move clearly shows that Nokia reacts to Android, even if they ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | No Comments »
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Two weeks ago I found, as a guest post at GigaOM, an interesting article from STL Partners on the future of broadband. While I disagree on a few points, it does bring some fresh ideas about the evolution of telcos:
- Wholesale. Increasingly important model as we see in wireless with ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
A game console is in essence a computer with a "gaming operating system". Sony PS3 specs outshine most of our PCs at home, and not only in Graphics power:
CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 218 GFLOPS
GPU: RSX @550MHz - 1.8 TFLOPS floating point ...
Posted in Digital Home | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Music and Movie industries are across a major transformation. The technological disruption brought by Internet and Mp3 requires a sharp disruption in their business model too.
In the past, consumers were hostages of labels and studios, that were able to set the price for CD albums and DVD films well ...
Posted in Media & New Economy | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
An effective architecture for the Digital Home requires two main elements: a centralized shared storage for media files, and a Media Player that connects to each of the displays at home: TVs, LCD, Plasma screens in different rooms.
We reviewed the shared storage for media, be it a NAS ...
Posted in Digital Home, TOP Popular Posts | 4 Comments »
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
As we anticipated in our 2008 predictions, the demand for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices at home is rapidly increasing.
Apple announcement of Time Capsule, even if not a proper NAS, goes into that direction.
There are two trends we all recognize in our digital style-life:
1) An increasing number of media files (photos, ...
Posted in Digital Home, TOP Popular Posts | 5 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Once more Guy Kawasaki's blog writes an illustrative post on a book and the ideas of its author. In this case, the book is Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. Here just a summary of questions from Guy and answers from Garr.
Q: What make a presentation stick?
A: ...sticky, compelling, and memorable ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
This is a guest post on Guy Kawasaki's blog from Scott Shane, professor of enterpreneurship, author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live
Below are Scott Shane's top ten myths and the realities behind:
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It takes a lot of money to finance a new ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
2008 Apple's keynote has introduced great products: MacBook Air, iTunes Movie Rentals, AppleTV Take 2, new applications for iPhone and iTouch, and Time Capsule.
Keynote highlights in nine minutes from YouTube:
If you only have 60 seconds to view the 90 minutes keynote, click here.
For the full keynote go to events.apple.com
Posted in Digital Home, Digital Lifestyle | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
If Apple was from Spain:
http://www.ijam.es/
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