Archive for the ‘Digital Home’ Category
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
If Internet is a great tool for entrepreneurs to test business ideas, YouTube is becoming the natural place to disclose inventions and test their relevance.
Leslie Berlin, a Silicon Valley historian, writes If no one sees, it is it an invention? for NY Times. Leslie explains that inventors have found in ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
When will my laptop be totally wireless, even to recharge the battery? The future might be sooner than we thought, and Nanotechnology will be part of it.
There are many types of Wireless Energy Transmission although none of them have gone further than a prototype. For home use, powerbeaming could be the ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
As can be seen in the demo video from SoftKinetic, 3D motion-sensing software is becoming quite powerful. Similar to EyeToy in PS2, I would not be surprised if Sony soon brings this technology to PS3 to counter-attack Wii's revolutionary game controller.
3D motion-sensing, or gesture recognition, could change the way we ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I have nothing against Microsoft, although many posts in tech-talk.biz could seem to be against them. I admire Microsoft and Bill Gates for what they have done from the computer industry to change our lives.
Still I can not be happy when I just had to reboot Vista twice after one of these ...
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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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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Just google "Vista sucks" and you get 2.5 million results. It is now unanimous: Vista is slow, unstable and annoying. Apart from my Commodore 64 and the OS/2 Warp of my days in IBM I have always used Windows: 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, XP and now Vista. So if ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Apple has presented results for the past quarter. Apple shipped 2.3 million Mac computers in the quarter, 51 percent year-on-year growth, with a revenue increase of 54 percent. iPod sales were flat compared to last year with 10.6 million units sold. More financial details on GigaOm or TechCrunch.
Mac is quickly ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The level of taste is not there. Whether a spoof or the real thing, this video of Vista SP1 is making Microsoft image sink even more, compared to the stylish Mac OS X.
If this video is part of a viral campaign, the awareness has clearly been created, but the ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Microsoft has openly declared that its bid to acquire Yahoo aims at improving their position in advertisement and fight the dominant position of Google. Do not expect Google to remain quiet.
What are Google options to defend from Microsoft, apart from sending missives? Counter bidding for Yahoo, is not an option ...
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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 ...
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