Archive for the ‘Digital Home’ Category
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Just google "Vista sucks" and you get 2.5 million results. It is now unanimous: Vista is slow, unstable and annoying. Apart from my Commodore 64 and the OS/2 Warp of my days in IBM I have always used Windows: 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, XP and now Vista. So if ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Apple has presented results for the past quarter. Apple shipped 2.3 million Mac computers in the quarter, 51 percent year-on-year growth, with a revenue increase of 54 percent. iPod sales were flat compared to last year with 10.6 million units sold. More financial details on GigaOm or TechCrunch.
Mac is quickly ...
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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 ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Microsoft has openly declared that its bid to acquire Yahoo aims at improving their position in advertisement and fight the dominant position of Google. Do not expect Google to remain quiet.
What are Google options to defend from Microsoft, apart from sending missives? Counter bidding for Yahoo, is not an option ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
A game console is in essence a computer with a "gaming operating system". Sony PS3 specs outshine most of our PCs at home, and not only in Graphics power:
CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 218 GFLOPS
GPU: RSX @550MHz - 1.8 TFLOPS floating point ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
An effective architecture for the Digital Home requires two main elements: a centralized shared storage for media files, and a Media Player that connects to each of the displays at home: TVs, LCD, Plasma screens in different rooms.
We reviewed the shared storage for media, be it a NAS ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
As we anticipated in our 2008 predictions, the demand for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices at home is rapidly increasing.
Apple announcement of Time Capsule, even if not a proper NAS, goes into that direction.
There are two trends we all recognize in our digital style-life:
1) An increasing number of media files (photos, ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
2008 Apple's keynote has introduced great products: MacBook Air, iTunes Movie Rentals, AppleTV Take 2, new applications for iPhone and iTouch, and Time Capsule.
Keynote highlights in nine minutes from YouTube:
If you only have 60 seconds to view the 90 minutes keynote, click here.
For the full keynote go to events.apple.com
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Blue-ray is winning the battle for the next-gen DVD. Warner has announced that they will release high-definition movies only in Blue-ray format starting July. With Warner announcement, Sony has secured support for Blue-ray from most of the big film studios.
This is a big win for Sony, specially for the push ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008
Telecom
Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among others, and the spectrum efficiency is superior to 3G. Incumbent wireless operators ...
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