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Essays from January 2010
5 essays from January 2010
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What we really need: without the effects of the reality-distortion field
As the idiotic rumor mill about a product that does not exist continues and probably increases until the middle of this week, I thought that it would be productive to talk about what we need, as of today, from a technological point of view. We already know that the apple tablet will save the media …
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And the mobile OS winner is…. Linux!
And suddenly the smart/super phone market is getting crowded with proper OS-platforms based on Linux! This is a new one from AAVA Mobile (demo by Intel), a new comer to the mass market stage, but already providing a very cool device (HW-wise) with a powerful OS (Moblin – Linux based and supported by Intel). If …
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It was a beautiful day in Helsinki today
Today the weather was brilliant. Here, haved a peak:
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Intel everywhere? Programmers will like this…
This year’s CES is presenting us, software/programmer types, with a very rosy picture of the future. A good example of what I mean is the push that Intel is making to the mobile phone segment with it’s Moorestown platform. Imagine a world where you can easily port all of your work to a new platform …
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The tablet craze, HP-tablet, I mean…
Gizmodo just published the summary of last night’s keynote by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and man it looks gorgeous (at least in the marketing video). Now the tablet craze starts to make more sense. If the print media industry want an electronic distribution media (and they should by now), then they must create an open standard …
Nothing matches that yet.
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