Cerrado por Vacaciones
Friday, June 27th, 2008I go on summer holidays. So during the next weeks posts might be more infrequent. See you soon
Archive for June, 2008
I go on summer holidays. So during the next weeks posts might be more infrequent. See you soon
Wireless Energy Transmission for my Laptop
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008When will my laptop be totally wireless, even to recharge the battery? The future might be sooner than we thought, and Nanotechnology will be part of it. There are many types of Wireless Energy Transmission although none of them have gone further than a prototype. For home use, powerbeaming could be the ...
Nokia to Get Full Control of Symbian
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Siemens International Holding and Samsung Electronics. Even though it may seem ...
Nokia Still Don’t Get it
Monday, June 23rd, 2008"It is the usability, stupid." In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and music). And they do not want multimedia to be a poor ...
It Is Time for Renewable Energy
Saturday, June 21st, 2008The high prices of oil in the seventies stimulated the research for alternative sources of energy. Nuclear power plants emerged as a very cost-effective energy source, though always controversial. Windmills and solar plants were in their infancy and too inefficient, while hydroelectric plants, apart from the high environmental ...
The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Coming
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Nanotechnology aims a the fabrication of a wider range of materials with atomic precision. Advances in nanotechnology will have a huge impact in solving some of the challenges of today, such as global warming, sustainable energy, new cures for diseases, more powerful computers or ultra-high performance materials. Some of the immediate ...
The First Step for Mobile TV is Free-To-Air
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Internet and Software companies know it well: mass adoption comes first, revenues will come later. It is what Chris Anderson calls Freeconomics. When the marginal cost of every new subscriber is close to zero, free is the way to go: Freemium, Ads or Cross-subsidize models can later monetize a massive ...
Google Gears: The Browser Is the OS
Monday, June 16th, 2008Google 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 ...
Coolness Vs. Openness
Monday, June 16th, 2008Mac, 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. Features, features, features, beta versions, open to add more features, ...
Femtocells and iPhone 3G
Thursday, June 12th, 2008At $199 and with mandatory flat data rates, millions of iPhones 3G will soon boost the data traffic of UMTS networks. Om Malik wonders whether AT&T UMTS network will be up to the task, specially as the interest on video (YouTube) from iPhone users will grow with 3G. An UMTS network has two ...
