Posted by bordalix Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:58:00 GMT
Trendwatching report for this month, named "Free Love" points out to ongoing rise of "free stuff", and the new business model of offering valuable stuff in exchange of consumer's attention.
Read more...Posted by bordalix Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:53:00 GMT
Ribbit will be the next buzz in the world of telephony. They developed an open platform, named Amphibian, which integrates your mobile phone with a very interesting web application. And since it's a open platform, developers can create new features and widgets on the platform.
Some of the features are:
Watch the demo video and start drooling:
RSS readers should click here to watch the video.
Posted by bordalix Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:09:00 GMT
The french newspaper Le Monde has posted a world map with the distribution of the different social networks across the different continents. Unfortunately, some countries has no information at all.
Click the image to see a larger version.
Update Feb 27 2008: Pingdom released a report with social networks downtime for 2008.
Posted by bordalix Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:55:00 GMT
Or how homo digitalis is different from the homo connectus.
Read more...Posted by bordalix Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:25:00 GMT
How to provide clean water to very poor people, using a diferent energy source.
Via Samuel Martins.Posted by bordalix Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:10:00 GMT
In a world where geographical constraints are no more, economic rules have to be re-evaluated. Due to online commerce, things like location, facilities and technical advisory are no longer competitive advantages. If I, as a customer, can have all the technical advisory I need from the web, and can buy whatever I want with a simple point and click, then price will become the ultimate decision maker.
Read more...Posted by bordalix Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:39:00 GMT
A very nice article stating the top 10 technologies that will change your life, from Live Science.
Posted by bordalix Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:15:00 GMT
If what Reuters is reporting is true (still waiting for confirmation), Toshiba has thrown the towel on the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war. I guess last Friday's Wal-Mart decision to abandon the format and stick to Blu-Ray, was HD-DVD's last nail in the coffin.
Better this way, this war was only stalling the development of the next generation DVDs, and creating a lot of confusion on customers head.
Posted by bordalix Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:01:00 GMT
Finally, on the 8th of February, George Hotz (please donate) cracked the protection scheme used in the iPhone. In a matter of hours, a lot if scripts and applications arose in order to facilitate the job to the average joe.
Yesterday, a new tool hit the radar, and is now possible to unlock, jailbreak and activate iPhones 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 OTB in less than 3 minutes. So, if you are one in the million that have a locked iPhone, grab the ZiPhoneGUI tool (available only for windows) and happy cracking.
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