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Kinect – The Useful Future of Gaming 20 Dec 2010 | 12:57 pm
I have been following gaming for a while now, for research purposes mostly, my theory being that an industry that big and creative will eventually come out with uses beyond gaming as a time-wasting ac...
Why Google should worry about proliferation of mobile devices 16 Dec 2010 | 03:04 pm
For a decade now Google has been helping users find relevant information, eliminating the chaos of the web and monetizing the searching in the process. In the era of complex multi-purpose devices (com...
iPad and the Beginning of the Post-Computer Era for Consumers 12 Dec 2009 | 04:16 pm
When I typed the first, longer draft of this post – months after my 08 post predicting the emergence of iPad, and left it sitting unpublished (as I do with most of my posts that I write just to conso...
2009 Technology in Review 6 Dec 2009 | 05:04 am
Looking back at my 08 review and predictions for 09, with the exception of social media talk everywhere, not much has changed this year, same players are still in the game and still leading the charge...
Bing challenging Google? It has still a long way to go… 26 Oct 2009 | 04:08 am
It’s the little thing that I’m noticing and they matter when you’re competing to become No 1. source of information : last week I read this press release how Bing is the first search engine to offer r...
Predicting The Future of Social Media… 14 Jul 2009 | 10:42 am
…is very hard, especially when the trend is at the top of it’s hype cycle. One should still attemtp to do it – separating hype from real value proposition can be a useful mental exercise, even at the ...
Technologies/Products that will make an impact in 2009 2 Feb 2009 | 04:45 pm
New Year is always the time for resolutions (that usually fail), year recaps (that are too easy) and next year predictions (that again usually fail), so I decided to make couple of predictions of my o...
AC/DC Black Ice Tour – Toronto, January 09 11 Jan 2009 | 12:37 am
All pics from the concert on Flickr It’s been exactly 30 years since I first heard Highway to Hell. I was in elementary school and more of a punk than a metal fan. The Clash and Talking Heads were m...
The Word in Spanish – Santiago de Cuba 28 Dec 2008 | 02:30 pm
There was a song by, I think Elton John, a while ago… about a guy in a movie seducing a woman by just saying one word in Spanish. Elton didn’t know what the word meant (no habla Espanol), so for all w...
Which technologies/products marked 2008? 16 Dec 2008 | 02:29 pm
Mature products – Intel and MS (and car manufacturers) time their incremental improvement releases around calendar years, but majority of important tech innovation happens in continuum unrelated to da...