Recent postsDrawing from the vast pool of Getty Images videos, photos and audio, MoodStream is a flash application that combines sound and vision according to your mood and settings. I did not expect to end up looking at this cute application for so long! You can tune MoodStream according to current level of happiness, how calm [...]
In part 1 of this series I concentrated on why books and publications have in general not become the target of online piracy, at least nowhere near the levels we see for music or movies. In this second and final part, I will discuss what determines whether a publication will become the target of online distribution.
Not all publications are [...]
It is a question that comes up naturally, especially when the music and movie industries are in such turbulent times. In many ways, worrying about book, magazine and newspaper content online so late, is the source of a strange feeling. Thinking of all information as data, text and pictures require less data volume and [...]
Microhoo has been the subject of discussions for weeks now. But since $33 did not do the job, maybe we will have some developments in the Microbook front.
Microsoft already has a 1.6% stake in Facebook, after a highly publicized buy. And since the cash seems to be sitting there, why not expect such a move?
I have written before and will definitely not shut up repeating that MP3 music files have offered portability and quick download times but have been a huge step backwards in terms of sound quality. In audiophile terms, I find the iTunes phenomenon completely inexplicable. Paying so much for so poor quality files is a complete [...]
The Slip is Nine Inch Nails‘ new album. Nothing special so far. But hey, it is officially offered as a free download! And not in just one file format, so choose what suits you best:
MP3: nice and space saving for your portable player.
FLAC lossless: with the right codec, you can play this directly, but do [...]
(Source: Comic Vine)
Internet dating sites are growing in popularity. A German friend was telling me that when young people get employed they have so little free time available, that he expects online dating sites to become the norm within a few years. I am not sure if I will agree or not with that prediction, [...]
Major Hollywood studios are going online to draw entries from filmmakers from all over the world. You do not have to be a big name any more, people that have the technique and imagination are given the chance and -equally importantly- the cash to make their projects real full feature films, documentaries, advertisements or series.
OK [...]
Airlines are already aware of the virtues of 2D barcodes and we will possibly see airline electronic boarding passes in the near future. Google has been quick to foresee the advantages of 2D barcodes, one of them being that a mobile telephone with a camera can read it, and with the right software automatically convert [...]
Up to the start of January 2008 my 1Mbps ADSL connection with Otenet was working ok, apart from some very scattered disconnections when somebody was calling my home line. It was a minor problem, as I use the home landline only for Internet work and since OTE -the owner of Otenet- is the largest Greek [...]
It is no secret that IPv4 addresses are running out fast and that sooner or later we will have no choice but to go for IPv6. According to Arstechnica, with a rough estimate of about 200 million addresses reserved each year, crunch time will be with us in 4 years.
In the intermediate period there is [...]
At the end of 2007 I wrote about the troubles of Greek broadband users. Since then, we have heard a lot of nice statistics about how Greece has the highest broadband growth rate in the EU and how a lot of Greek homes are coming online. But are statistics the true picture? Far from it…
In [...]
So far, we have been talking about Intel vs AMD. But maybe it is time to call this battle outmoded as Intel is joining the mobile device arena. And who is it going to meet there? Qualcomm of course!
Unlike other succesful corporations, Qualcomm has kept a lower profile and has since 1985 worked systematically to [...]
In a recent post I have listed five reasons light mobile versions of websites are necessary for current and near future mobile devices. Of course hardware and software change so rapidly that I am going to play it safe and state that everything is possible. For this reason, here is five reasons that for our [...]
Amid the Atom news frenzy from Intel in Shangai this week and the release of mobile device software like Google’s Android OS and the Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile, it is evident that probably very soon we will all have some form of web browser on our mobile devices.
After reading an interesting post at UMPCportal, [...]
