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Microsoft’s move to release their new MP3 player, the Zune just in time for the busy holiday season is perceived by most analysts as a desperate move from the Redmond based company to regain relevance in the strategic digital entertainment market which they had planned to control with Media Center PCs. However, this strategy failed […]
I was recently listening to the HP press conference where CEO Mark Hurd announced that Chairman Partricia Dunn had resigned her position as a result of the scandal provoked by the spying of journalists in order to obtain the source of leaks within HPs board of Directors. It is clear to me that Patricia Dunn had the […]
I just posted the slides for a new episode of IT Insight. This time I will be talking about the WWDC. The podcast (in Spanish only, for now) will be available tomorrow morning. I hope you all enjoy it. In the next episode we will go back to architectural topics and I will cover what […]
Since the launch of the new iTunes store, there have been stories published by major newspapers that Wall-Mart has been threatening the movie industry with retaliation if they signed a distribution deal with Apple. This story has some credibility as it is well known that Wall-Mart controls 40% of the DVD retail market and they […]
Since the introduction of the Palm Pilot, back in 1996, most of us have carried at least two electronic devices attached to our belts. The iPod has only made things worse. Consumer electronics companies have seen a business opportunity consisting in developing a device that combines multiple functions previously only available in separate devices. This […]
Today two brand new applications were launched for the Mac. Yes I know, I should probably add Adobe Acrobat 8, but I can’t really get excited about that, even if it is now a Universal Binary. The first one is XTorrent, a new BitTorrent client. What is so exciting about a product that will compete […]
Last week researchers from Princeton University demonstrated that Diebold voting machines could easily be hacked into in less than four minutes. The Diebold voting machines were designed to avoid a repetition of the 2000 U.S. presidential election which demonstrated that current election results are an approximation, at best, with unacceptable error margins in a deeply […]
A couple of weeks ago I heard a comment on a podcast where someone defined blogs as conversations. At the time I didn’t really understand because my blog was mostly a monolog. At the time I didn’t really care because my blog was basically a way to get my ideas in order as well as […]
It has been three days since the September 12 Apple announcement and I am quite surprised that despite the interest generated by the iTV announcement, few are talking about it’s most mysterious feature, the USB port which can be found on the back of the device. Some have speculated that it could be used to […]
As most rumor sites had predicted, Apple did not announce a true video iPod. This is quite a disappointment for most of us. After all, the iPod hadn’t been updated in a year so we were entitled to a significant upgrade, right? Wrong. Everyone should understand that it is very difficult to transform a product […]