Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Apple tablet has been much anticipated and rumored, but Mike Arrington and TechCrunch are creating something quite cool! Read more.
An these kind of new devices will have some impact in the way web apps are developed, with emphasis in multitouch features.
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
I guess that by now, all music labels have already realized that music downloads and subscriptions are the only way forward to distribute music. CDs are dead, and rightly so.
Maybe because we just finished unpacking the shipment from KL in our new home in Shanghai, I just happen to realize ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Sony just announced its Q4 results with a 95% decline in profits. Extracted from Associated Press :
Sony Corp. said its net profit shriveled to 10.4 billion yen ($115.6 million) in the third quarter from 200.2 billion yen a year earlier. Revenue fell 25 percent to 2.15 trillion yen from 2.86 trillion ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
This is the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the Mac and the famous 1984 ad directed by Ridley Scott. The ad would be aired only once during the Super Bowl, and cost Apple $1.5 million.
The original Macintosh was released on 24 January 1984. Known as Macintosh 128k, it was ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
December 28th is the Spanish equivalent to April Fool's day. That is why I had to read twice the news that iFart Mobile (see video) was the best selling application in App Store during the holidays (iTunes Link).
Quoted from the iFart creator, Joel Comm's blog:
All I knew was that a ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Android announced this week that 14 new companies are joining the Open Handset Alliance. The new members are: AKM Semiconductor, ARM, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.
Some readings:
Sony Ericsson sold their shares ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Nokia has finally reacted and announces a device to compete with the iPhone. The N97 has a beautiful touchscreen and a sliding qwerty keyboard. From the video clip Nokia posted in YouTube you can notice that Nokia bets on widgets to make the interface even more touch-friendly. One surprising thing ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
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 the iPhone user experience, these apps will soon make GPS ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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.
While Nokia blames price cutting for their profit decline, Apple says ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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 GE was not number one or number two.
Mobile handsets market ...
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