Tag Archives: iPhone

One Year of Blogging

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

One year has passed since we started this blog with Steve Job’s famous commencement address. Less than one month later a post on LinuxMCE made it to the front page of Digg, and got 25.000 visits in one day! Since … Continue reading →

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Will Speech-Reco Cross the Chasm with Google?

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Speech Recognition technology is available for many years, still its impact has been quite low so far. Windows has speech recognition features that nobody use,  speech-to-dial is available in mobile phones since years. Few people configure it, and less of … Continue reading →

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The Earth on your Palm

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Found via TechCrunch, Google keeps producing great stuff, and “organizing World’s information” for us. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod Touch) puts literally the entire blue planet on your handset. Enriched by links to Panoramio and Wikipedia, and fully using … Continue reading →

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Apple Vs. Nokia: Less is More

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While Nokia posted a 30.5% drop in earnings in the quarter ending on 30 September, Steve Jobs proudly announced to analysts that 6.9 million 3G iPhone units were sold in the same quarter, outselling  even RIM’s Blackberry 6.1 million units. … Continue reading →

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Handsets Two Horse Race

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote it in many of their marketing best-sellers: “In the long run, every market becomes a  two horse race”. Jack Welch, legend ex-CEO of GE, made popular his rule of closing every business unit where … Continue reading →

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iPhone Rocks or a Rock?

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A funny, different view of the iPhone found though webtown. Although the iPhone only outperforms the Stone in the touchscreen, why does it still rock? Leave aside the iconic cool factor (which matters a lot). It is not about the … Continue reading →

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Searching for the Mobile Killer App

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple App Store and Android App Market are bringing more spotlight than ever to the applications for mobile handsets. Though a vast number of applications already exist for Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, developers are working hard to write the … Continue reading →

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Telcos in a Clouds & Pipes World

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The previous post might have look pessimistic about telcos when defining the future of telecom as “Clouds and Pipes (and Toys)”. In reality, it is just an analogy to describe what is already happening with “Over-The-Top” players delivering applications and … Continue reading →

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Symbian Vs iPhone: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

TechCruch and GigaOm both commented the Symbian quarterly results. Both blogs compared Nokia’s OS to iPhone and reached two opposite conclusions. Facts by GigaOm: Symbian shipped 19.5 Million units in Q2, 5% year-on-year growth. iPhone shipped 0.77 Million units of its 2G … Continue reading →

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Back from Holidays

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

After a long summer break, welcome to the new season of tech-talk.biz It has been two months with big sport events as the UEFA EURO Cup and the Beijing Olympics, covered for the first time not only on TV but … Continue reading →

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