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The 2008 Consumer Electronic Show is winding down. As usual, there were lots of announcements, although very few were actually significant. Following that trend, Bill Gate’s farewell keynote was fun but light in content. This certainly marks the end of an era. We will miss you, Bill. In fact the most discussed topic during this […]
When I bought my PS3 early last year there where no compatible UPnP solutions for the Mac to stream music, pictures or video to Sony’s console. I was disappointed but since the PS3 didn’t support many popular media types at the time I quickly realized that even if such a solution had been available I […]
I have never been a customer of Citibank-Banamex. When I landed in Mexico about 15 years ago I started working at a rival (much smaller) bank called Bital (now HSBC) and for me it was much easier to open an account there. I have never switched, not that HSBC’s service is stellar but at least […]
Yesterday the Mac press was abuzz with a new patent filing from Apple regarding an iMac-like notebook docking station. While many companies patent ideas just to prove to shareholders that they are innovating, many seem to believe that this patent is indicative of things to come next week at MacWorld Expo. I am not convinced, […]
There is a lot of buzz in the media industry around Apple plans to offer video rentals in January. I have even seen articles saying that this may mean the end of Blockbuster and even NetFlix. I don’t see why. If Apple only plans to make their current movie catalog available for rent, they will […]
Back in 1999 I was the proud owner of a Sega DreamCast. It was a great console with many excellent games such Hydro Thunder, Soul Calibur and my personal favorite, House of the Dead 2. However, less than three years after its successful introduction, the console was discontinued. I understand that many factors drove Sega […]
Last Thursday I was invited to have dinner with Nick Donofrio who is Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at IBM. The event was organized by HR to revitalize the technical community in our organization. Among the persons invited where some of the best technical resources from the different organizations that form the company […]
Forrester Research recently posted a research note explaining why IT Department shouldn’t and won’t support iPhones. While I disagree with some of the concerns mentioned by this company (specially those related to security since the content on the iPhone is usually stored on a server, not locally) I have to recognize that they make some […]
Today I have spent most of my day staring at a screen, saying Wow! In fact that is not totally true, sometimes, instead of Wow! I would say Amazing! or Holly cow! Before you ask, no, I did not install Vista on my laptop. That would be a total waste of time and it wouldn’t […]
Yesterday I finally upgraded my hacked iPhone to firmware 1.1.2. At first it seemed like a great idea. The new firmware fixes a number of annoying bugs. For example, I was getting a lot of unreadable junk text messages from my cell phone carrier. Now I can finally read all those useless messages that remind […]