Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Time to Change (the Subject)

Monday, March 16th, 2009

I have been trying to find anything of importance to report about in the media industry for a while. I mean, really trying. However, it seems that nothing that interesting is going on, apart from multitudes of cost cuts, layoffs and abysmal quarterly reports. As it seems to me, this ...

Xbox 360 Outsells Playstation 3 – Or Then Again Not

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

According to PCWorld, Xbox 360 is outselling PS3. The current sales figures they quote (Microsoft) are 28 million for Xbox, while PS3 has sold, depending on the source, 20-25 million since launch. What the reporter, once again, accidentally forgets is the fact that Xbox 360 launched one year earlier than ...

Calais 4.0 Released, Supports Linked Data

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

ReadWriteWeb has a short article about Thomson Reuters' new version of Calais. I think the inclusion of Linked Data makes this new version really interesting as it enables de-referencing semantic entities within content and such allows for much better functionality for content providers and more rich user experience. While I've had ...

About iPhone Software Development

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I've been now playing with Apple's iPhone SDK for a week or so after joining the developer program. My first impressions are quite positive, given that I'd never before written a single line of Objective-C or having any deeper knowledge of Cocoa and other relevant frameworks on OS X. After doing ...

Microblogging vs. Hyperlocal News

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Once again, Steve Outing had a thought provoking article about local news. Pretty much the same idea has been lingering in my mind for a while, not least because I'm an active user of Jaiku. The things I think play in favor of microblogging against local news are quite simple: ...

New Firmware for Sony Reader

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Sony PRS-505 Reader Image via Wikipedia Sony has released a new firmware revision for their PRS-505 Reader. The most notable features are support for Adobe Digital Editions and PDF text reflowing. The latter is most interesting for me, as I tend to keep lot of scientific publications on my reader and those ...

The Significance of 3G in Apple’s new iPhone

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia As the launch of Apple's new revision of the iPhone is approaching, there has been growing amount of criticism towards Apple not introducing anything really revolutionary with the new product. This critique is normally heard from U.S. and that is understandable, given that U.S. is still lagging behind ...

Google Enters the Virtual World Arena with Lively

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia So it was destined to happen: Google announced that they are also entering the virtual world arena with Lively, a browser based VW implementation. While there has been a lot of buzz and a lot of VC dollars involved with VW business this year, this news means trouble ...

The Carbon Footprint of “Green” Goods?

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia According to pretty much every possible news outlet, Toyota will be adding solar panels to their Prius line of hybric cars. One thing that bugs me in all of these so called "green" goods is that there is no mention of the emissions from the manufacture of such ...

The Missing Google Bookmarks Plugin for Safari/WebKit on Mac OS

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia If you, like me, use Google Bookmarks for centrally storing bookmarks and want to use Safari or WebKit for your daily browsing, the help can be found at MacThemes Forum. The Goggles plugin for SIMBL adds a new menu to Safari that allows you to use Google Bookmarks ...