Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Gizmodo reports that sources have "confirmed" that the 3G iPhone will be announced on 9 June during the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. It is expected to be available worldwide right after the launch. Gizmodo says:
"In Spain, for example, the 3G iPhone will be available for sale at the June 18th grand ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
So The New York Times predicts in The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits.
The premise is that no company is able to dominate the Computer Industry spanning two technological eras. Microsoft has reigned on the PC era, as IBM did during the mainframe times. When Microsoft software monopolized personal ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
This is the short version of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. You can see his original complete lecture at Carnegie Mellon here. It is 76 minutes long.
A moving speech about life. Thanks Randy.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
In January, Google disclosed that the traffic to Google from iPhones had surpassed any other smartphone, despite iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones, Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%.
Later in March, M:Metrics confirmed that 85% of iPhone users access the web from their handset, ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Google has disclosed 46 of the 50 winning Applications of the first Android Developer Challenge. Each of them wins a prize of $25.000. You can see the complete Applications list at Google Android Developers blog and see a selection of ten favorites from TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb . Here is ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Google presented yesterday Google Friend Connect. This new product enables to any Website to add Social Networking features. The video below is quite illustrative:
By simply copy and paste of code, any webmaster of a small website can add social capabilities to his site. In the video you see the example ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Without a clear (public) business case, the latest king of the social networks is raising $100 million, according to Business Week's FaceBook: Friends with Money, and also echoed by TechCrunch.
Here is some interesting data from the Business Week article:
Facebook already raised $360m in last seven months: $240m from Microsoft for a ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Microsoft keeps losing market share slightly and continuously, in part thanks to Vista.
But let's admit it, Vista is not that terrible, even if far from perfect. Microsoft monopolistic habits and greed to milk the licenses cow, make people have a negative feeling (not to say hate) about Microsoft. Steve Ballmer's arrogance ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Mobile TV continue to expand in Asia, Europe and US. AT&T just launched a broadcast Mobile TV service, offering 10 channels for $15 a month. Verizon launched their service one year ago. In Italy UMTS mobile operator 3 (Hutch group) is the most successful commercial launch in Europe for Broadcast ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address book, etc.
As an user, you can envision IMS as ...
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