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Netflix expanding to 130 countries, including Romania

8 January 2016

Good news two days ago: Netflix expanded to the world. But if you watch the events closely, you see that Netflix did what we can now call “creating wealth, startup edition“: permited users from all over the world to register and will work out the details later. The move is dumb and briliant at the same time: […]

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Why there are only few startups in Eastern Europe?

4 January 2016

I see a lot of chatter about this: why there are not more startups in Romania? What about Bulgaria? Hasn’t Poland bright engineers and idea people? We do. The problem is that 99% of the ideas we see are only marginally improvements over the companies that exist. Usually the ideas look like this: Let’s do […]

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Creating wealth, startup edition

3 January 2016

Paul Graham writes a long diatribe about how startups dont take money from other people, but instead create wealth. He might be right, but let me remind myself how some of the biggest startups created wealth: YouTube: stole videos from everybody until become so large it afforded to pay royaltlies. Facebook: for the last 2 years stole […]

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Poor Samsung, their Gear2 is getting so good reviews…

6 September 2015

So, Samsung has a new watch and every big tech blog is convinced it’s a winner. Not just a winner, but a sure winner. And this is only because they received access to it before the announcement went public. The real reviews will come when the watch will go on sale. The big blogs (TechCrunch, […]

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Yes, Microsoft, Windows should be free

22 October 2013

Apple just release the new OSX titled Maverick for free. I was expecting a move like this from Microsoft. Because their real business is Office, not Windows. Windows is just a window to doing a lot of things. And now is the time, with the PC market going down. 

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Sony got it right with its new NEX mirrorless line

6 July 2013

After years of releasing mirrorless cameras without a clear direction, Sony got it right: they put a APS-C sensor on all of their mirrorless line. Being disappointed by the Sony A57 DSLT, I have bought a NEX3N with a 16-55mm kit lens, that sells for about 400 euros. It does not shoot 12fps or nothing […]

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PC – bleak future

15 April 2013

There are three important things to note in the past few days. Erich Schmidt from Google saying that by 2020 every human on the planet will be online. Sure, this is not going to happen, and people cited lack of water or electricity, but he is on to something: it is easier to be online […]

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Why is Dell in trouble?

31 March 2013

The first reason that comes to mind is the one everybody knows: the PC is almost dead. But, there is more to it that that. Dell never had good products. It had cheap products. Mediocre products. Not having good products made people look for alternatives and as soon as it found them. Dell existed only […]

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Companies banning bloggers

5 August 2011

In 2008, I wrote a review of a new phone. I am more of a journalist than a tech expert, so my opinion was from the consumer side, not from the techie who’s impressed by the accelerometer, whatever that is. The review was mixed, with good and bad, again, focusing on what the consumer needs. […]

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Technically dissapointed

4 July 2010

I am a bit dissapointed by the technology around me. I was expecting a little bit more out of the gadgets i own. my car cd-player broke down, after bumping in a hole in the road. roads in Romania are faulty and my cd-player jumps every time i find a rough spot in the road. […]

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