Category Archives: Internet

[Chart] Apple Makes HTML5 Video Grow

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With more than 7 million iPads sold in a few months, no one doubts that the iPad has forever changed personal computing. The chart, via the Business Insider once again,  shows the growth of HTML5 video this year, which is … Continue reading →

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[Read] NYT: Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The moment came when Apple surpassed Microsoft in Market Cap [*]. A few numbers: Market Cap: Microsoft at $219 billion – Apple at $222 billion (yesterday) Revenue: Microsoft at $58.4 billion – Apple at $42.9 billion Net income: Microsoft at … Continue reading →

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Google TV in Short

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google TV, as described by Google is about: Less time Finding More time Watching Control and Personalize what you Watch Make your TV content more Interesting More than just TV Google TV is built on Android 2.1 and Google Chrome … Continue reading →

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How much is an Internet Visitor Worth?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google makes $18 a year for each unique visitor. Facebook makes roughly $3. Three observations from the chart: 1)  Google is far ahead of the others in monetizing their visitors. A sign that search advertising is much better paid than … Continue reading →

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Flash Vs. HTML5: Google Will Decide

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The future of Adobe Flash is in the hands of Google. Apple’s reluctance to support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad is putting tremendous pressure on the future of Adobe’s ubiquitous platform, present in 98% of browsers worldwide. The … Continue reading →

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Why Is Google Acquiring On2?

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google has announced the acquisition of On2, the company that owns some of the video compression codecs widely used in online video, but that were recently losing ground in favor of h.264. Why is Google spending $106 million in purchasing … Continue reading →

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WolframAlpha: Not Really a Revolution

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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No More Bing for China

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Wolfram Alpha: Revolution in Search or Hype?

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

I am sure you have already heard about Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine that will shake the thrones of  Google and Wikipedia as kings of Internet knowledge.  Soon to be launched, Wolfram Alpha defines itselft as a Computational Knowledge Engine, … Continue reading →

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Boxee: Hulu’s Dilemma

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Boxee is getting so successful that many of its users are seriously considering to stop their Pay-TV subscriptions. Boxee is a cool open source software for Media Centers based on Mac or Ubuntu. This software transforms a Mac Mini, Apple … Continue reading →

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