Challenges of SmARtCities
- November 17, 2014
- Joe
- knowledge
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As always, there’s buzz about something. Among many topics, one that touches our domain is SmartCities. Long history short, SmartCities is based around the concept of everything and everybody in a city communicating. So, the challenge here is getting this communication take place. But what precisely is being communicated? The idea is that buildings can…
MIGS 2014
- November 13, 2014
- Joe
- Events
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This year we got the great opportunity to participate again as volunteers on the Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS). As always, great talks and knowledge being shared. Here, we’ll write about what we were able to witness, however, it was far greater than that. Oculus VR We got the chance to assist to a VR…
California dreaming
- October 29, 2014
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, Events
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MarketLink As we have mentioned earlier, we were invited to the MarketLink event in San Diego to show our solution to several companies. MarketLink is a great program that puts to talk directly companies with potential providers, with little red tape in between. From our part, we got a chance to visit San Diego several…
The implications of the new Apple SIM
- October 21, 2014
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Since the dawn of the iPhone, Apple has tried to shun away from operators, however reality says they’re a necessary gatekeeper to deal with. For the time being, it will continue to be this way as the operators lease the cellular frequencies on each country. As always, I like to look back to know…
Burger Hortons vs Uncle Sam
- September 8, 2014
- Joe
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As you might have heard, Burger King just merged with our beloved (for people living in Canada at least) Tim Hortons. I’m not an accountant, nor a tax specialist, so take this as it is: A far away armchair opinion of the events. Naturally, feel free to correct any wrong statement. That being said ……
Content Update for Terra Icons
- September 2, 2014
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- us
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After our grandiose launching of Terra Icons v 2.0 :-), we think it would be nice to share an update on how the content progression is doing. Added cities (services): San Diego (Icons & Trolley) Seattle (Icons) Caracas (Icons & Metro), Bogota (TransMilenio) Panama (Metro) Brisbane (CityCycle) Zaragoza (Bizi). Added services to existing cities: Mexico…
The ghost of being too early
- August 26, 2014
- Joe
- entrepreneurship, knowledge
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There’s a saying: Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it That’s a motto I try to follow, as such, history is something that I like and I always factor in an analysis. There’s also another quote that I factor in an analysis: Being early is the same as being wrong The previous,…
Amazon’s FireFly tech, AR coming of age
- July 29, 2014
- Joe
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Last week the Amazon Fire phone started to sale, while reviews has not been kind to it, the phone does brings a host of new technologies that will influence user expectations and experience as a whole, not only for Amazon Fire Phone users. Specifically (in our point of view), one of the technologies that are…
History of the renewed Apple-IBM vows
- July 21, 2014
- Joe
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Last week Apple-IBM break ended in a new reunion, promising to renew their vows on this new stage of their relationship. Yes, this relationship is not new, is an old love-hate adventure the two of them need in order to keep them in business they neither attack correctly. Apple on the corporate side, IBM on…
Why Google+ hasn’t taken off?
- July 4, 2014
- Joe
- knowledge
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As you may know, Google+ has not been the success most people expected. For sure, we don’t know what Google was expecting out of it, given their philosophy. However we know that the company has made a considerable effort trying to put it on front of our faces each time we use one of Google…