Category Archives: Digital Lifestyle

Dealing with email

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

No doubt email is an extremely useful tool for communication. It has replaced fax and snail mail in enterprises and it is widely used …and abused. Email has made organizations flatter. Any employee can reach anyone in the organization, including … Continue reading →

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iPhone SDK and attacking Blackberry

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple is reinforcing its iconic iPhone (even more) to grab the business segment, now owned by Blackberry. Apple announced support for Microsoft Exchange, putting iPhone in a position to swap the professional Blackberry handsets with the stylish iPhone for email … Continue reading →

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Japan: Mobile Phones and Fashion

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Each season Mobile Operators in Japan present their new handsets, often developed in exclusive by Japanese vendors as Hitachi, Sanyo, Panasonic or Kyocera. See these articles with details on the latest models announced by KDDI and Softbank: KDDI spring’08 phones and … Continue reading →

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Nokia and Yahoo moves

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs Keynote 2008

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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iPhone and Google will transform Mobile phones

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

According to NYT technology article by Miguel Helf, iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones. Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%. Yet, during Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surpassed any other smartphone. This data … Continue reading →

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CES 2008: the Robot I dreamed of

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Among the gadgets at CES, this is the robot I would take: WowWee’s Rovio From the creators of Robosapiens, this is a ‘Wi-Fi enabled robotic webcam’. Like Roomba it goes around the house, but instead of cleaning, it sends you … Continue reading →

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Is mobile music service a handset vendor’s business?

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone. Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games. And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong … Continue reading →

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Music DRM is dead

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

At last, the Music industry seems to start accepting that Internet and mp3 have changed the way people consume songs. The announcement that Sony BMG will launch a DRM-free music download service, confirms the death of Music DRM. Last month Warner Music announced … Continue reading →

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Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Amazon, as usual, has got it right and Kindle is a great device. Once you get to know the detailed specs, you realize it is not just  another ebook reader. Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3. Not … Continue reading →

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