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The success of Google+

Posted on 07/04/2012 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

While taking a look at Google’s Project Glass concept video, I thought I would take the opportunity to see how successful Google+ really is. I did this by comparing the Project Glass Google+ page and the concept video on YouTube. 100 million active users on Google+ 8 million views on YouTube 160,000 +1′s on Google+ [...]

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What are Google Glasses for?

Posted on 07/04/2012 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

After watching the Google glasses concept video it didn’t take long for my initial reaction of, wow this could be cool, to turn to reality. Many have stated their opinions on the video, including some parodies of the clip. It wasn’t until halfway through reading Trevor Gilbert’s take on PandoDaily I stopped. I asked myself, [...]

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Piracy and our sense of entitlement

Posted on 22/03/2012 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

A lot has been said lately regarding the whole piracy debate. No one (in their right mind) thinks it’s right, but there is some disagreement as to whether consumers are at fault due to an unrealistic sense of entitlement, or content providers who are making it difficult for their customers to simply pay for their [...]

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iPad 3 Predictions

Posted on 02/03/2012 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments
iPad 3 Predictions

With the iPad 3 almost upon us, and my iPad 1 already sold, there’s not much left to do but guess what Apple have in store for us. Retina Display The obvious prediction. It’s been a while since I remember something being so certain before an Apple product launch. Of course the one thing we [...]

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ASUS Zenbook review

Posted on 24/10/2011 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

An in depth review of the ASUS Zenbook. One of the first entrants in the all new Ultrabook market, which up to now is the Macbook Air. To sum things up… If ASUS can fix the trackpad issues then it’s worth considering, however the display in the MBA alone is reason to opt for it [...]

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More than this

Posted on 06/10/2011 by Calvin Chong   No Comments

I’m typing this on my MacBook Pro, while my iPhone streams music (purchased from the iTunes Store) to the Airport Express. Later I might watch a show on the AppleTV, then do some end-of-day reading on my iPad. So yes, I could thank Steve for all he has done for computing. Out of his vision [...]

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Heard it all before…

Posted on 22/09/2011 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

…radically improved 3D graphics performance compared with Flash 10 – on the order of 1000 times improved, according to Nguyen. – The Loop The next version of Flash will be good. Promise.

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Windows 8 (Metro) Boot Time

Posted on 10/09/2011 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

This new fast startup mode will yield benefits on almost all systems, whether they have a spinning HDD or a solid state drive (SSD), but for newer systems with fast SSDs it is downright amazing. — Building Windows 8 The Metro view boots at a decent speed. Now we just need to see it booting [...]

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Google buys patents (aka Motorola)

Posted on 15/08/2011 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform. Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. – Larry Page, Google CEO Now Google can be “open” and “closed”. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening [...]

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Facebook Messenger ain’t no iMessage

Posted on 12/08/2011 by Sam Barillaro   No Comments

But the service that should be perhaps more worried about Messenger is the still-unlaunched iMessage. – MG Siegler Disagree.   Siegler makes a bunch of true statements, but the biggest reason — the biggest advantage — that iMessage will have is that it is seamless. – Ben Brooks Agree.

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