If you have been wondering all these years where all your money went, telecoms should be at the top of your list. I do not want to think of the unavoidably huge amounts that went to calls for family and friends… It is with great happiness and a feeling of sweet revenge that I read [...]
Just yesterday I was discussing about the difficulty of storing and efficiently accessing downloaded content. Nokia is doing something a bit different with its Z-Wave Home Control Center. Using a Nokia mobile phone or a PC it will be possible to coordinate virtually everything in a smart home.
Every day the future of digital downloads looks brighter and brighter. It was only yesterday that we learned that 51% of Altantic’s revenue now comes from digital downloads, a percentage bound to increase as the CD decline is accelerating. And although total music sales declined from $14.6 billion in 1999 to about $10.1 billion this year, [...]
The time has come sooner than we all thought. PC Mag is going 100% online from January 2009. Unsurprisingly, the much awaited move comes from a computer related publication reaching out to “Internet ready” customers, not having to worry about how existing clients will access the digital content. Surprisingly, the online format will remain that [...]
Online and magazine photos of new products create in our mind idealised images of the stuff we want to buy. And although smaller is in many cases lighter and easier to carry around, there are also cases when bigger means better looking and more professional.
Pective is a site that helps in the size attribute of [...]
Going from phase 1 to phase 2 of the web was a process that involved more or less the same known tools. All pieces of the Internet are now more advanced. PCs, servers, connections, data centers, all progress at astonishing rates, but remain the same set of ingredients. So coming across an article on the [...]
Internet fever in South Korea, where Internet syndrome treatment is a real necessity… [Source: web20asia]
Drawing 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 [...]
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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 [...]
