Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Mobile Internet Platforms: Do we need a different Web for Mobile?

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Mobile Mondays dedicated its latest event in Madrid to Mobile Internet Platforms, where my good friend Alex Romero from Yahoo! presented their vision of Mobile Internet. Mobile Internet is finally coming. Unlimited data plans and high speeds (HSDPA, EVDO) are finally enabling it. Although most 3G data traffic is still associated ...

Converging into Clouds

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, as strong contenders to put IT systems on the clouds. But ...

Why is Google building a Browser?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

The clip from Google answers the question in its first part. "To take the Web to the next level". Web browsers were designed for web pages much simpler than the web interactive applications we enjoy today, such as Gmail, Google Maps or Google Docs. JavaScript executes extremely fast in Chrome, ...

The Internet of Things

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 ...

The Future of Telecom: Clouds and Pipes

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 ...

Is Chrome Enough to Kill Windows?

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 ...

Google Chrome: Get Equipped for Clouds

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 ...

Google Gears: The Browser Is the OS

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 ...

2018. What Laptop Will You Use in Ten Years?

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: ...

Metered Broadband: Pay-per-Use or Abuse?

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 ...