Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless technology that enables communication between devices over very short distances (less than 10 cm). The technology has been available for a while in the form of contactless (or proximity) cards that are mainly used for public transportation and payment. One of the most ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Internet is the paradigm of next generation communications. One of the wonders of Internet is that it allows to de-couple Services/Applications from the access network. e.g. Anyone still uses the email or hosting services from your broadband access supplier? Most people prefer these Services independent from the broadband provider. One ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Megabytes and megabytes of commentaries after its launch are setting yet one more record on top of Chrome's top speed marks of one percent market share in one day, and fastest ever browser.
Most analysis agree that Chrome is aiming at Windows, and not to Internet Explorer. Together with Gears, Chrome's performance ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Google has surprised the world with its new browser. The product introduction through a comic was a brilliant exercise of showing the superior features of their browser, most of them quite technical, in an simple, plain, easy to understand manner.
Google wants the browser to make the OS irrelevant. The intent ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Google Gears lets web applications store data locally in the browser, making those applications available even when off-line. Almost a key requirement for people afraid to switch to Google Docs fearing they would be stuck to work on documents when on a airplane or when unable to go on-line.
Gears is ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore's Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months.
Following this exponential growth these are the specs for a $1500 Laptop in 2018, and some accessories:
Microprocessor number of Cores: ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Competition among ISPs used to be fierce in the initial times of dial-ups access, with tens of ISPs in the market. That might explain why ISPs did not manage to retain any control of users and flat rates were made the rule to provide plain open Internet access. Comparatively, the ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Om Malik got an interesting interview with Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO.
Bezos explains how they worked tough at Amazon to develop a hard interface between their network engineering group and their applications programmers group. Once they had architected a set of APIs for their platform, Amazon thought why not make it ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Cloud Computing is a fancy term these days that applies to many different things. Concepts such as Software as a Service (SaaS), On-demand Computing, Utility Computing, Managed Services or even older ones as Hosting or Outsourcing, seem to all fall under the Cloud buzzword.
The basic concept is that the Cloud ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
I just discovered this interesting graph in Brough Turner's post 3G's biggest success is as a dumb pipe.
The graph highlights two main points: 1) 3G data trafffic has increased more than 10 times in Finland, and 2) 92% of that traffic is Internet Access from PCs. UMTS modems and Data Cards in ...
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