Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
By surprise, I found a Safari icon on my desktop after updating iTunes. My first reaction is "What! how can Apple use this malware-like tricks to push Safari?" So it is no surprise the complaints of Firefox boss, and the general condemn from blogs: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, The Open Road
Once the initial ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Following the previous post about the use of mobile by children, in the clip below distributed by Google you can see good advice on how to educate the kids on a safe use of Internet. No doubt that Internet and Mobile is giving to the new generations access to huge ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
In 2006 Imaginarium and Telefonica Moviles launched the MO1, a mobile handset designed for 6 year-old children. It sold at 59 Euros, with a prepaid account. Its features include: two blue buttons for direct call to Mom or Dad, white-list for allowed SMS destinations set-up by parents, hands-free and an emergency locator.
What ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of Internet and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, delivered a keynote in San Francisco a few days ago. If you have never heard Mr. Cerf, do not miss this video.
In his keynote Vint Cerf covers a bit of Internet History and some of the ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Another brilliant example of Google phenomenal applications. And another example of how Internet players can build mobile applications bypassing the Mobile Operators. Not long ago, Location was one of the unique capabilities mobile operators could leverage to provide Location-based Services. Now Google demonstrates how easily the operator is bypassed even ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Convergence is a term widely used in technology with different meanings:
- Device Convergence: mobile phone, digital camera, PDA, GPS, media player, email, data modem, e-wallet, etc. all into a single device
- Fixed / Mobile Convergence. Fixed and Mobile operators offering similar services across networks.
- Prepaid/Postpaid Convergent rating. Mobile operators looking for a single ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Marissa Mayer, VP Search & User Products at Google, announced in their official blog that Google is launching an initiative to put the Internet at the service of our most important asset, our health. Google is reaching agreements with universities and other medical institutions to upload the medical records of ...
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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, February 1st, 2008
The news of the day is the Microsoft bid to acquire Yahoo. There has been rumours for years on this wedding. Lately many articles were rising serious doubts on Yahoo's strategy to compete with Google, and that is certainly accelerating the action. See Yahoo news during the past days:
Let’s Trash ...
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