Trashing an iPod nano
What does it take to destroy an iPod nano and what’s inside this tiny package ? The guys over at Arstechnica put the nano through its paces. To simulate the everyday accidents that could result in a broken iPod, they came up with a few situations that would ultimately leave the nano lifeless : 1. […]
Life Before Mobile Phones
In this interconnected wireless world, it’s virtually impossible to imagine life without mobile phones and Internet. Like a wonder drug that can cure a man’s misery, we are hooked on everything mobile. But what is life before the emergence of mobile phones ? Is it better ? Sometimes I can’t help but reminisce about those […]
Latest Mobile Marketing Study Release...
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has released the 3rd annual Mobile Attitude and Usage Study. Being the strong advocate of mobile marketing, the results are of course very positive (if the results are not that impressive will MMA still publish it ?) What would be very interesting to see in this study are the forces […]
FIFA 19 Review for Xbox 360
It’s hard to believe that EA’s FIFA franchise has been around since 1993. We’re talking grunge era folks; plaid flannels, the Gulf War, and not even an outside chance that Team U.S.A. would be a World Cup contender…or even be in the big dance for that matter. Things have changed a great deal from the […]
The Internet and change
For Manuel CASTEILS : we should have healthy doubts about the bombastic claims from futurologists and techno-prophets that because we now have the Internet everything will change. Society is a complicated system that can shape and twist technology to unexpected uses. It is not correct to predict a total transformation just because there is a […]
Internet : The dream society ?
For many years, and like many people, I was convinced that the key to understanding the driving forces within the marketplace was the information society. My reasoning was simple. Most people produce, process or disseminate information. The production of material goods has become largely automated. Factory floors in the United States and Europe are being […]
The Internet and social and economic ...
The Internet is a key communication tool that revamps our world while keeping its physical and social dimensions. It is often claimed that the Internet has led to social and economic restructuring, but the socio-economic restructuring came first. Networking structures preceded the widespread use of the Internet in business. But this new socio-economic system (based […]
Review on cybernetics : Bluetooth car...
Bluetooth car rear view mirror : the most important feature of this device is the mirror itself and this is where it seriously lets itself down. As previously said, the mirror is huge but also the glass makes everything look tiny compared to your door mirrors. It becomes difficult to judge where things are behind […]
Sociology gaming : Nintendo seeks to ...
Prolific gamers have been complaining that games of late are getting easier (I’m not one of them). The main beef is that games are slowly being skewed away from seasoned gamers who want real challenges and an increasing learning curve and towards casual gamers who do not want anything difficult at all and who get […]
Will We See More RFID Tags in Clothin...
The photo to your left is of an RFID tag contained on a skirt purchased at Old navy. Up to now I wasn’t aware that individually-tagged items of clothing were being sold at mainstream retail outlets in the U.S. like Old Navy. Oh sure, we’ve heard about RFID used in pilot programs and in exclusive […]
