Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Just the same day Google announces the invention of the web time machine, these guys announce a JV with Virgin to establish a permanent settlement in Mars in the next 20 years. The JV is called Virgle, and they are recruiting the first settlers or Virgle Pioneers. See video announcement from ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Google Australia announced today a search service able to search pages in the future. The service is called Gday.
Gday relies on a technology named MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). Excerpt from Google:
"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I just read the New York Times article on blogs, So you want to be a blogging star?, with some advice for bloggers. Paul Boutin's main bullets are:
- Don't expect to get rich
- Write about your passions
- Fit blogging into holes in your schedule
- Just post it
- Keep the rhythm
- Join the ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
This clip recreates the lat day of Bill Gates as a full time employee of Microsoft, which is planned to happen mid this year, when Bill Gates will spend more time running his foundation. Shown at CES 2008, during the last keynote of Bill Gates at CES, it is a funny ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
This is the full video of the Apple keynote at MacWorld in 1997, just after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as interim CEO. In this historical keynote, we can see Bill Gates joining by videoconference. But even more impressive it is to see how Steve Jobs set the foundations for ...
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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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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
When I started this blog one month ago, I could not imagine that 21.000 people would be reading it by year end, as it happened on 22 December. Thank you all for the support and for all your comments, specially on the Linux MCE debate.
Merry Christmas and enjoy your holidays!
Jose Miguel
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
When I was a teenager, Commodore 64 was my first computer, as it was for a generation.
Great for gaming, it also had some serious features, like BASIC programming, Assembler, or even a modem to connect to the boards of those times. I even remember composing music with the Commodore 64, ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
In US these days there has been a lot of renewed debate on Net Neutrality. See video below from Sen. Ted Kennedy for those not familiar with the issue
The fact that Comcast was throttling BitTorrent P2P traffic, triggered the debate whether Net Neutrality regulations would force the Service Provider not ...
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