Lately there has been some developments within the telco world that will continue to impulse the usage and adoption of smartphones anywhere around the world. Online vs offline As we have dwell before, there is a big argument against and for deploying mobile apps to be used offline (i.e. not using internet connection). Developers have…

When human beings embark on a new endeavour it’s natural to initially feel that it’s impossible to accomplish it. As time goes by and this endeavour starts to evolve, things begin to look achievable, then the mood changes from impossible to “if I would have known that!”. Hopefully, after the happy ending of the endeavour,…

We will not talk about the current Apple TV, which Apple have said numerous times, is a hobby, we’ll talk about the numerously rumoured Apple TV set (or whatever its final form would be). Let’s start by saying that is quite possible that such a device is already designed and built, the problem is there’s…

Much has been written about the fall of Blackberry (BB). On our side we even speculated that maybe since they were doing so well not long ago, it was difficult for them to argue any changes in direction. Well, nothing can be farthest from the truth. The inside scoop went outside last week-and thanks to…

Some time ago we speculated on the impact the proposed Metaio’s AR chip could have on the industry.  As we said earlier, any improvement in AR is good for everybody. Lets take a brief look at the new co-processors, X8 from Motorola and M7 from Apple. All of this, from an AR point of view….

The Irony So Microsoft bought NOKIA phones division. Many people are scratching their heads, why? Well, there’s isn’t a single reason for this to happened, let’s try to greatly summarize how this became to be. Its a long post, so take you cup of coffee with you 🙂   @parislemon The Matrix will always have…

For some unknown reason to me, northern countries once were *THE* leaders in communication equipment. NOKIA is Finnish, Ericsson is Swedish, Nortel and RIM are Canadians. Why is this? Maybe the long winters experienced on these latitudes force people to think to communicate better, since most of them are hibernating like the polar bears 🙂…

Ever since Android started to get traction is has been tagged with one significant drawback: fragmentation. Indeed, fragmentation on the platform is a challenge. However what surprises me about the whole theme is how it is reported as a drag to the platform and as if it has never existed on computing before and because…

Once upon a time there was an small company named Google. This company was gaining public’s awareness. They were concentrated on search, as so, one of their first forays on desktop (i.e. Windows) was a little product called ‘Google Desktop’, with the only mission of indexing the files on people’s computer in order to make…

As have mentioned before, among our providers, we use Windows Azure. Within it, there’s the option to host a free web site, which we find it perfectly to host a Firefox OS hosted web app (considering our current traffic). However, given that Azure is based on IIS (you can also have LAMP, but that’s under…