Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

New Nexus 7 tablet launches Google into ‘ecosystem’ wars

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Long rendered mere commodities with their manufacturing now largely done in labour-rich China and southeast Asia, computing hardware has now become just low-cost components in increasingly cloud-based software “ecosystems” the likes of which were first spectacularly consumerised by Apple in its now cyber-ubiquitous iTunes retail network. But software and Net firms are coming in hard…

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Enterprise social networking: End of the road for The Boss

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Perhaps I had been a bit too hasty with my indictment of the valuue of social networking in the workplace in my previous article. HootSuite CEO wrote something in his Fortune article the other day that caught my attention: The CIO gets crowd-sourced: Back in the day, writes TechCrunch’s Rip Empson, the CIO was god,…

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Will social media as we know it thrive in a corporate setting?

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If you can’t take on social networking giant Facebook on its home court, bring the battle to your own field. Microsoft seems set to leverage its still undisputed hold on systems that run big corporate networks to capture business-oriented social networking. Bill Gates’s IT behemoth has recently acquired “enterprise social networking” startup Yammer for USD1.2…

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The slide of Nokia and the future of Facebook

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The once mighty Nokia seems to be on the brink, announcing in mid-June that it will be slashing 10,000 jobs over the next 18 months following falling sales and losses this year. This, from a company that once utterly dominated the mobile phone market and was convinced that touchscreen phones “won’t replace traditional phones” (with…

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Filipinos tops in NBA armchair sportscasting over Twitter

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Suddenly it all makes sense to me. Sorry I’m kinda slow when it comes to sports trivia. So Erik Spoelstra, coach of the NBA team Miami Heat is a Filipino-American. Kaya pala. According to a Philippine Star report, Filipinos have been so enthralled by the NBA finals in which Heat is up against Oklahoma City…

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Facebook.com acquires facial recognition startup Face.com

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Facebook has recently acquired Israeli startup Face.com for an undisclosed sum. AFP reports that Face.com in a blog post had hinted on a focus on developing products to improve user experience among Facebook members who are “increasingly using smartphones or tablets to interact with the service” but that Facebook “has yet to show how it…

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To buy or not to buy the new MacBook Pro

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It’s one of those challenging purchasing decisions that make you go hmmmm.. I read that the new MacBook Pro has a “2.3 GHz quad-core Intel i7 processor, 8-gigabytes of RAM, a 256 GB solid state drive, two USB 3.0 ports, and a razor-sharp Retina Display”. My current 2007 MacBook, on the other hand runs the…

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Facebook share price continues to decline

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As of the start of this week, Facebook is now trading at 29% below its IPO price. After being priced at $38 per share by its underwriters and floated in the market on the 18th May, the stock performed disappointingly on its first day, rising just a few cents before the market closed. It’s been…

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