Archive for the ‘IT’ Category

Flash Vs. HTML5: Google Will Decide

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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 Adobe Flash Player  is the engine behind 99% of  Video in the ...

Telecom Slowdown? Seven Reasons for Hope

Friday, January 30th, 2009

We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements. GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 job cuts in the tech industry in 2008. Still there are reasons ...

Netbooks, Moore’s Law And Which New App Will Come for Rescue?

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

The rise of Netbooks, of which 21 million units* will be sold in 2009, may put in jeopardy the progression of Moore's Law, as netbooks cannibalize sales of laptops. As a result of Moore's Law, the price of a mid-range PC has not changed much since long, but every year ...

Welcome 2009!

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1. Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...

Modular Data Centers: Containers for Clouds

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Mike Manos, Microsoft Data Center Chief, has unveiled in his blog the design of future "Generation 4" Microsoft data centers. With the mission to provide massive easy-to-scale computing infrastructure to power the Cloud, Microsoft envisions pre-assembled containers equipped with a few thousands of servers each and its associated cabling and ...

Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits. 1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way. The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...

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 ...

Telecom at the Speed of Moore’s Law

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

While the IT industry has Moore's law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins. Microprocessors, hard-drives and memory cards double its performance/cost ratio every year. The ...

Eee PC: Linux or XP?

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Jim was decided to buy a netbook. One friend recommended him the Asus Eee PC. Jim does not know much about computers, but his brother-in-law Greg is one of these geeks that knows everything about the latest toys. Jim: Which Eee should I buy? Linux or XP? Greg: First, among the ...

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: ...