Posts tagged with:samsung

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, […]

Flipping through this presentation about the mobile world, I saw again the enormous Samsung Mobile budget. They are living proof is not enough to have the greatest smartphone, you got to have a big marketing budget. The average Joe sees the Galaxy S4 in Ray Donovan’s hands and that is what he buys. He doesn’t […]

Now that the megapixel race is sort of passé, DSLR and smartphone makers have found new grounds to battle: low light. The one with the best picture in low light wins! Nikon launched D3200 with 24 useless megapixels. Samsung and Sony have 13 megapixel cameras on their smartphone. The 50 megapixel DSLR is near. All […]

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 […]

I watch CES news like everybody else. Not so much to report, really. A lot of big tvs, a lot of stupid photo cameras, a lot of hd camcorders. Nikon D5100 is a good example of what the tech world has become by using a Toshiba sensor. Other camera manufacturers use Sony sensors. Even Apple […]