Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Nanotechnology aims a the fabrication of a wider range of materials with atomic precision. Advances in nanotechnology will have a huge impact in solving some of the challenges of today, such as global warming, sustainable energy, new cures for diseases, more powerful computers or ultra-high performance materials.
Some of the immediate ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Building a broadband network based on Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) is a big investment. Once the fiber is deployed Telcos usually offer IPTV as one of the main revenue generating services to pay-back the investment.
Some Telcos argue that once they put all this huge capacity available to the user, anyone ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
After ten months of travel, spacecraft Phoenix Mars Lander will reach Mars tonight to explore the Artic Plain in search of water. It will take seven minutes to slow down from 20.000 km/h, entering Mars atmosphere, to 8 km/h when touching ground.
You can follow the live webcast of the landing ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Just the same day Google announces the invention of the web time machine, these guys announce a JV with Virgin to establish a permanent settlement in Mars in the next 20 years. The JV is called Virgle, and they are recruiting the first settlers or Virgle Pioneers. See video announcement from ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Google Australia announced today a search service able to search pages in the future. The service is called Gday.
Gday relies on a technology named MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). Excerpt from Google:
"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I just read the New York Times article on blogs, So you want to be a blogging star?, with some advice for bloggers. Paul Boutin's main bullets are:
- Don't expect to get rich
- Write about your passions
- Fit blogging into holes in your schedule
- Just post it
- Keep the rhythm
- Join the ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
This clip recreates the lat day of Bill Gates as a full time employee of Microsoft, which is planned to happen mid this year, when Bill Gates will spend more time running his foundation. Shown at CES 2008, during the last keynote of Bill Gates at CES, it is a funny ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
This is the full video of the Apple keynote at MacWorld in 1997, just after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as interim CEO. In this historical keynote, we can see Bill Gates joining by videoconference. But even more impressive it is to see how Steve Jobs set the foundations for ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008
Telecom
Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among others, and the spectrum efficiency is superior to 3G. Incumbent wireless operators ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
When I started this blog one month ago, I could not imagine that 21.000 people would be reading it by year end, as it happened on 22 December. Thank you all for the support and for all your comments, specially on the Linux MCE debate.
Merry Christmas and enjoy your holidays!
Jose Miguel
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