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…
Once, a wonderful teacher I had taught me “Engineering is about making sacrifices, you loss something to gain another one”. That has stick to me ever since. Personally, I think Windows 8 is suffering from that. Microsoft doesn’t want to scarify much of it in order to keep it compelling to the established based, which…
A lot has been written about Google Glass, so we’ll try not to repeat it here. Let’s start from what we know: It’s an Android device It has great potential for many things It remains to be seen if it will be socially validated, due to -possible- privacy issues Google as a company has several…
Some years ago, Steve Jobs proclaimed the post-pc era. While the PC (including Macs) were not dead, that trend seemed certain. One way to certify this trend in technology is when advances comes first within certain types of technologies, in this case, advances are coming live first on mobile than on PCs. The same way…
Some years ago Google released Google Docs, which was a free web version of the Office suite Microsoft offers. While Google Docs was certainly more limited than MS Office, it was functional enough to work with it, and (on top of all) sharing data and documents via Web was possible (MS Office didn’t allow that…
Last week Metaio announced with great -and justified- fanfare the first AR Engine. This engine is going to be manufactured in tandem with ST-Ericsson. So, what is it all about? Let it be said that we -obviously- embrace and welcome any advantages in the AR world. The more improvements, the better. Indeed Metaio and ST-Ericsson…
