Archive : Tech

It’s Sunday morning and I’m eating breakfast, my mind turns back to last week where I watched TEDTalks about ‘the surprising science of motivation’ by Dan Pink and Paul Romer’s radical idea: charter cities. They both led me to think about what it means to work and by definition live in the 21st Century. The downturn happened, the banks were underwritten by governments [...]

Yep Gmail is down. The tweeting world is all asking itself the same question, is it down for you to? Answer, that’s a Bingo! or Yes. No reason as yet…. While you wait, watch this live stream of fbFund REV Demo Day ’09 Live Video streaming by Ustream

Image via CrunchBase The last week of August was a busy time for Apple maybe because it was the silly season and all the journos and bloggers were on the holidays, and maybe because it was HOT, which seems like a funny time to release Snow Leopard. Release it they did and boy oh boy, were we all excited, I threw it on to my machine as quick a lightening, a mere 37 minutes and bam! I was standing [...]

In life there comes a time when you just got to let go of something that defined a generation. Today we say good bye to Pirate Bay. At 9:30am PT or 1:30 BST Pirate Bay’s plug was pulled by (one of) its ISP – Black Internet, who likely feared the court order, which would have fined them some $70,000 if they had not done so. For now Pirate Bay is offline, and regardless what you think of [...]

Being hit by the crisis, the largest supplier of PC’s in the world, Hewlett-Packard (HP), declared a 19 percent drop in profit for the third quarter of 2009. Although it still recorded profits of $1.6 billion, it is far from the $2 billion recorded for the same quarter, last year. Share prices also dropped and now HP shares can be bought for just 67 cents each, far from the price of 80 cents per [...]

We are all very curious about the new Microsoft Zune HD. I can’t wait to get my hands on the new gadget and test it! Of course, you will find a review here…once I manage to get it. On Thursday, Microsoft confirmed some of its secrets related to its future Zune HD. It disclosed information regarding price, availability, and capacities. The Zune HD will not be a cheap device, with prices of $219.99 [...]

Image via CrunchBase Canadian firm ‘i4i Ltd.’ won a case against Microsoft in the US District Court 60 days ago, claiming Microsoft knowingly use XML technology infringing a 1998 patent owned by i4i. Today the US Federal Court ruled that Microsoft must stop selling any products using .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM. This news is huge, but should come as a relief to groups against proprietary [...]

Publicis Groupe is a French advertising group and one of the largest media companies, with over 44,000 employees. The company has recently agreed to buy Razorfish from Microsoft for $530 million. They will pay in cash and stock and Razorfish will keep its brand name. This is Microsoft’s preferred provider for Internet advertising and will remain so even after it is acquired by Publicis Groupe. At [...]

Nothing is perfect, not even the iPhone! Let’s see the top 5 iPhone annoyances of iPhone and how to fix them. Although iPhone is one of the greatest gadgets on the market today, it still has plenty of flaws. Technology is all about fixing things, so here are the best solutions for the top 5 iPhone annoyances. 5. Default Apps can’t be hidden As you already know, the iPhone ships with a lot of apps. [...]

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr This is probably the most exciting tech battle of our days: Google versus Microsoft. Although it will probably go on for years, it will remain a very hot subject. It all started a few months ago when each company launched a direct attack on its rival’s most important business. Google started by announcing the development of a new desktop operating system, [...]