Posts from category:technology

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. 

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]