Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Highly recommended videos for anyone planning to ask funding from venture capital. Guy Kawasaki is one of the star entrepreneurs and venture capitalists of Silicon Valley, and if you listen to his speech you will understand why.
I extract from the talk the ten slides Guy advises when presenting your idea ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, as strong contenders to put IT systems on the clouds.
But ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Apple App Store and Android App Market are bringing more spotlight than ever to the applications for mobile handsets. Though a vast number of applications already exist for Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, developers are working hard to write the next killer app on the iPhone and Android platform.
What ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Google is re-investing the revenues they get from ads on projects to improve our world. Following google.org initiatives (RE<C, RechargeIT and others) Google is now calling for ideas from outside to make them happen in Project 10 to the 100.
Googlers are brilliant people and you can notice that from the great ...
Posted in Inspirational, Media & New Economy | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Yesterday was a great day for America as T-Mobile launched the awaited first Android phone. Plenty of coverage for the announcement in NYC, but is the G1 up to the expectations?
On the good side: the anticipated powerful processor with touchscreen, qwerty keyboard, camera, GPS and full integration with Google applications ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
While the IT industry has Moore's law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins.
Microprocessors, hard-drives and memory cards double its performance/cost ratio every year. The ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on a 1GB microSD card that will sell for $7-$10.
Blogs unanimously ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The clip from Google answers the question in its first part. "To take the Web to the next level". Web browsers were designed for web pages much simpler than the web interactive applications we enjoy today, such as Gmail, Google Maps or Google Docs. JavaScript executes extremely fast in Chrome, ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless technology that enables communication between devices over very short distances (less than 10 cm). The technology has been available for a while in the form of contactless (or proximity) cards that are mainly used for public transportation and payment. One of the most ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Gartner published a few days ago their assessment of the Smartphone market in Q2 2008. These are the highlights by handset maker:
Smartphone market grew 15.7% compared to last year.
Nokia remains the number one vendor, but it is losing market share from 50.8% in 2007 to 47.5% in 2008.
RIM is the ...
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