May 2009
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Really better with Windows?
The Taiwanese company Asus, creator of the now very famous EEEPC, which redefined the terms of the market for creating portable NETBOOK category has teamed with Microsoft to launch a website called “It’s better with Windows”. The idea is to promote the use of Windows among users of the family of netbooks EEEPC. Microsoft argued [...]
Android applications in Ubuntu
At a reunion of developers in Barcelona (Spain), Canonical has presented a simulator for the Android operating system Ubuntu Remix (the version of Ubuntu for netbooks). Instead of carrying around the Android operating system for NETBOOK, Canonical raises the option to run Android applications on a Linux kernel without changing simply using your emulator, it [...]
All the noise from Twitter!
On the gossip blog gawk I found a story that made me think about so-called social networks, especially Twitter. According to that post, yesterday was a great noise in the twitter as a result of the news that Patrick Swayze had died. Swayze who is famous for films like Dirty Dancing (Forbidden Dance) and Ghost [...]
Aimless walks by Oracle
On Wednesday of last week (May 13), Oracle announced the acquisition of Virtual Iron on its website. Virtual Iron is one of many software solutions that offer turnkey solutions for managing virtualization in the modern multicore computers. It should be noted that Oracle already has a similar product called Oracle VM, as well as with [...]
PHP in App Engine using Java
There is no doubt that support for PHP in Google App Engine (GAME) is the desire of most developers, I included among them. A test is leading to Wishlist appengine, followed by Ruby and Perl. But the second language added to Google App Engine was as Java servlet, however, in an interesting blog post the [...]
Facebook and Academic Performance
Although I have an account on Facebook, I must admit that I hardly use it at most every weekend to check to see that I have received friend requests and accept them, but I must admit that I am an antisocial 2.0, which is not surprise because I’ve been antisocial from a my early childhood. [...]
The web needs a new business model
In an interesting article titled “The economics of it for free” by Chris Anderson in The Wall Street Journal disscusing the implications of this global economic crisis on the web and the prevalent business model that seeks a wider audience and reputation, with the idea of being able to sell the company in the [...]
Is the blogosphere dying?
Well according to Paul Boutin, in an article in Wired, as blogs are already dead and the Murderers have been Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. In his article, we recommend not to start a new blog and if we have a recommended stop. He claims that due to the influx of professionals to the blogosphere, there [...]