Archive for June, 2009

Apple Beware, CrunchPad is Coming

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Apple tablet has been much anticipated and rumored, but Mike Arrington and TechCrunch are creating something quite cool! Read more. An these kind of new devices will have some impact in the way web apps are developed, with emphasis in multitouch features.

WolframAlpha: Not Really a Revolution

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

As the graph via TechCrunch perfectly illustrates, WolframAlpha has not revolutionized Search... at all. It is a very nice concept, but far from delivering any real everyday value other than being somewhat useful to find numeric facts. By comparison Bing has resulted in a good surprise to put pressure on Google ...

No More Bing for China

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

NYT, GigaOm, and others attribute to the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen the fact that Twitter, Blogsplot, YouTube and many other sites are not accessible from China these days. Even the brand new Microsoft search engine Bing is now blocked!! I wonder if the cause of Bing blockage will not have anything to do ...