Category Archives: Most-read

A few days before personal computing changes forever

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A few days before the iPad is out I am ready to make my bet. It  will be a revolution. The iPhone was a revolution for mobile handsets.  Nokia laughed at Apple when they launched a new phone in what … Continue reading →

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Will Internet TV Kill IPTV?

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence: Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users … Continue reading →

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Eee PC: Linux or XP?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Coolness Vs. Openness

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mac, coolness: the choice of the artist and the MBA. Style, simplicity, less features but works flawlessly, usability on the top, identify with brand, price premium. The right brain decides. Ubuntu, openness: the choice of the engineer and the geek. … Continue reading →

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2018. What Laptop Will You Use in Ten Years?

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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IBM Supercomputer Sets Record, or rather not?

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With a total of 116,640 processor cores, including AMD Opteron processors as well as 12,960 IBM Cell processors similar to those created for the PlayStation 3, IBM has broken the one petaflop mark with the new Supercomputer commissioned by the American military … Continue reading →

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Will we ever use video calls?

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Videocalls are available in UMTS networks and supported by most 3G handsets in the market. Still, how many people do actually use it? Have you tried it yourself? Among the factors that prevent people from video calling, the privacy issue … Continue reading →

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The End of Microsoft Era?

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

So The New York Times predicts in The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits. The premise is that no company is able to dominate the Computer Industry spanning two technological eras. Microsoft has reigned on the PC era, as … Continue reading →

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IMS Vs. Skype

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Apocalypse 2018

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

April 2018. DIGooGle makes popular a GigaCrunch post: Microsoft Apocalypse Vista was the beginning of the end. A few years after its launch, the debacle was inevitable. First the SMEs and SOHO abandoned Microsoft when it stopped Windows XP support. By … Continue reading →

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