CES 2012 Highlights

For the last couple of days, the Consumer Electronics Show has been taking place in Las Vegas. There, the world’s greatest companies are presenting their latest and most innovative products. Your TV is not good enough This year, the spotlight has been set on TV’s. Several companies, from the mos...
12 Jan 2012 - 127 reads

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Majel, the code name for Google’s enhanced Siri

If you are a trekkie, then the name Majel must definitely ring a bell for you. If you don’t even know what “trekkie” means, then let me explain this. Lately, Google X labs has been raising interest throughout the Web and inspiring imaginative articles about what might be cooking in that futu...
15 Dec 2011 - 102 reads

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Buffy, the code name for Facebook’s latest idea

I really think that Facebook’s popularity has gone straight to the heads of the site’s execs. Because, if that isn’t the case, how do you explain their latest “brilliant” business idea? I’m talking, of course, about the reports that indicate that the social network would be...
23 Nov 2011 - 94 reads

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Mobile Flash Player declared dead

I’m sure I’m not the only one that heard Steve Jobs’ voice in my head saying “Told ya!” The late Apple CEO will be remembered by many things but today is surely remembered for his hatred over a technology that has “major technical drawbacks”. By the way, I’m tal...
10 Nov 2011 - 93 reads

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Kinect SDK for commercial use arriving in early 2012

Almost a year after its groundbreaking launch, the Kinect technologies will finally be available for developing commercial applications. Although intended for entertainment purposes, the motion-sensor device has proven to be a valuable ally for other ends, which confirmed that such gadget doesn’t belong...
01 Nov 2011 - 121 reads

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YouTube to sell music tickets and merchandise

If I was to say two obvious things about Internet today, they would be that Google is the major player around and that the music industry is still trying to find its definitive place in the digital world. Now, what these two ideas have in common? Well, YouTube, of course. The biggest video sharing platform ...
28 Oct 2011 - 127 reads

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