All the stories tagged with: Thoughts
High-Tech Trash Talk
08/28/2006, As much as we love gadgets, a lot of us don’t know nearly enough about how to dispose of them properly (in an environment-friendly manner). When we heard about Elizabeth Grossman’s “High Tech Trash” book, we did seek a meeting [...]
Ubergizmo Guide to Bootleg copies
06/16/2006, Piracy has long been the bane of many an industry – from game and music to software developers. This white collar crime has cost all 3 industries billions in revenue each year with the authorities always one step behind the [...]
Cellphones to become dirt-cheap by 2007
12/08/2005, Reuters has an interesting article about how cellphones are going to be cost-reduced to death to cost only $15 to manufacture. It mentions names like Infineon among the chip companies who are going to integrate the hell out of all mobile [...]
Intel could love Blu-Ray too
10/05/2005, (photo from eHomeUpgrade) Last week, Intel was supporting HD-DVD (along with Microsoft), Blu-Ray’s competitor. This week, Intel says that it would show some love to Sony’s Blu-Ray if it interacts well with PCs. In short, Intel loves whatever might help [...]
Samsung´s Push for Linux Smartphones
02/11/2005, Samsung, Emuzed, Infineon and Emuzed say that they have a reference design for a cellphone based on the Linux OS (Operating System) that would allow more sophisticated services that take advantage of fast connections such as 3G or EDGE. Other [...]
The PDA market is still going down
02/03/2005, For the fourth consecutive year, the PDA market is sliding. In 2004, 9.2 million PDAs have been shipped. That’s a 13% drop from the previous year. This year, big vendors like Sony and Toshiba left the U.S market to concentrate [...]
DVD Format War – who cares?
01/20/2005, High-Definition movies on HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or even regular DVD using DivX: why should any consumer care today? First of all, I noticed that a lot of people are confusing the video format (or compression format) with the media format. HD-DVD [...]
Dell throws dirt at Sony and Apple
01/18/2005, “It’s interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it’s only this past year it’s become a raging success,” … “Well, those things that become fads rage, and then they drop off. When I was growing up there [...]
Verizon sued by a customer over a Motorola V710 Bluetooth feature
01/17/2005, A Verizon customer is suing the cellphone carrier over a lacking Bluetooth feature. He claims that Verizon is intentionally preventing users the Motorola V710 (sold via Verizon) from transmitting pictures via Bluetooth to another cellphone, thus forcing the user to [...]
Will TV "on the go" be a commercial success?
01/13/2005, During the recent months, we have seen a lot of TV-capable phones. The buzz is being generated by cellphone carriers, who think that they found a new gold mine. Cellphones manufacturers are creating TV-capable cellphones hoping to get a lucrative [...]
Skype is a threat for Europeans telephone companies
01/11/2005, The inquirer reports that European telcos are scared to death of Skype, the free internet telephony application. First, you have to know that in Europe, they don’t have anything like free local calls. For decades, telephone users were considered as [...]
Game Makers Support Blu-Ray, so what?
01/10/2005, The rally of game developer heavy weights such as Electronics Arts and Videndi Universal Games around Sony’s next generation DVD format Blu-Ray was largely commented in the press recently. I think that it was over-hyped. “The delivery of high-definition games [...]
