Archive for the ‘TOP Popular Posts’ Category
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence:
Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users now feel comfortable watching videos on the PC. First it was ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Jim was decided to buy a netbook. One friend recommended him the Asus Eee PC. Jim does not know much about computers, but his brother-in-law Greg is one of these geeks that knows everything about the latest toys.
Jim: Which Eee should I buy? Linux or XP?
Greg: First, among the ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Mac, 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, ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore's Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months.
Following this exponential growth these are the specs for a $1500 Laptop in 2018, and some accessories:
Microprocessor number of Cores: ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
With a total of 116,640 processor cores, including AMD Opteron processors as well as 12,960 IBM Cell processors similar to those created for the PlayStation 3, IBM has broken the one petaflop mark with the new Supercomputer commissioned by the American military administration. The $133 million machine*, called Roadrunner, will be used to ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Videocalls are available in UMTS networks and supported by most 3G handsets in the market. Still, how many people do actually use it? Have you tried it yourself?
Among the factors that prevent people from video calling, the privacy issue is one of the main concerns. You do not want ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
So The New York Times predicts in The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits.
The premise is that no company is able to dominate the Computer Industry spanning two technological eras. Microsoft has reigned on the PC era, as IBM did during the mainframe times. When Microsoft software monopolized personal ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address book, etc.
As an user, you can envision IMS as ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
April 2018. DIGooGle makes popular a GigaCrunch post: Microsoft Apocalypse
Vista was the beginning of the end. A few years after its launch, the debacle was inevitable. First the SMEs and SOHO abandoned Microsoft when it stopped Windows XP support. By that time Google had launched G-Enterprise, consisting of Google Apps + ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
eBay announced results, and Skype was part of them. Skype revenues have increased 61% year-on-year to reach $126M. Skype added 33M new users for a total of 309M. Skype makes most of its revenue with SkypeOut, where the tariffs barely cover the interconnection costs to finalize the calls in the telco's ...
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