Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Nokia Q1 results have disappointed analyst, even if revenues grew 28% YoY to reach $20 billion and net profit reached $1.9 billion, up 25% from last year. Nokia shipped 115 M handsets in Q1, 27% YoY growth, with strong performance in emerging markets (Asia, Africa and Middle-East). Still Nokia ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
eBay announced results, and Skype was part of them. Skype revenues have increased 61% year-on-year to reach $126M. Skype added 33M new users for a total of 309M. Skype makes most of its revenue with SkypeOut, where the tariffs barely cover the interconnection costs to finalize the calls in the telco's ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
After the experience of watching Vista SP1 clip, you deserve to listen and watch the actual Boss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6se90rFN1qI
I hope it made you forget Vista video.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The level of taste is not there. Whether a spoof or the real thing, this video of Vista SP1 is making Microsoft image sink even more, compared to the stylish Mac OS X.
If this video is part of a viral campaign, the awareness has clearly been created, but the ...
Posted in Digital Home | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
WAP was one of the big disappointments of the mobile industry in the late 90s. Mobile Internet would be enabled by WAP, that would allow Internet access adapted to the small screens and lower processing power of the handsets of the time.
Telcos invested a lot of money to deploy the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Last week we commented on the move of Adobe into Internet TV - beyond the pure technology role they already play in YouTube. After testing Adobe Media Player, I like it specially for the control it gives you to decide what to watch every night, compared to regular TV. Technically, in slow broadband ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
"Más dura será la caída" is a Spanish saying that could translate "the higher the rise, the harder the fall".
Economic cycles are a fact acknowledged by economists, that have written a lot about them. Simply google the term and e.g. see the definition from Wikinvest:
"Theoretically, any deviation from average growth ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Last weekend while walking in a mall, I saw a record shop that was playing in their big plasma screens a live concert from Celine Dion. When I saw it I wondered who can be interested in having this DVD? I am not specially keen on Dion, so you can ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Adobe just just released Adobe Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV. Built on AIR, the Media Player supports Flash video and h264 video encoding, with 1080p, 720p and 480i resolutions. Users can subscribe to channels, with content available from CBS, Universal and MTV among others, including the Long Tail of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Google has just launched App Engine, the service to give developers access to Google Cloud, or in other words, to the same Google infrastructure that runs G-Mail, Google Apps or Google Earth.
App Engine provides a number of tools to develop Web applications that will run on Google data centers. The ...
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