Muchos sabíamos que era cuestión de tiempo antes de que esto pasara. ¿Porqué? porque Apple podrá hace software y hardware, gadgets innovadores, diseño, lifestyle (como ya he comentado por aquí). Pero la información es infinita. Quien hace negocio de ella tiene un fuente inagotable de riqueza…

Google has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable brand

Google has been named ahead of Apple as the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new survey. Apple’s brand value fell by 20pc in the past year to just under $148bn (£88bn), conceding the spot it held for three years to Google, whose value increased by 40pc to $159bn, according to Millward Brown’s BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking. Google’s investment in its self-driving cars project, Google Glass and numerous Android partnerships, including its forthcoming line of smartwatches, resulted in $15.4bn of revenue in the last financial quarter and profits of $3.45bn. Technology brands dominated the top positions, with fastest pace of growth in brand value. Facebook’s brand value rose 68pc to around $36bn, putting it 21st in the rankings, while Chinese internet portal Tencent is now worth just over $53bn – a significant 97pc rise on last year and taking it up 7 places to 14th…

http://bit.ly/1jY2XNP

Internet addiction?

Para quienes todavía se revuelcan en el debate sobre si el internet es malo o bueno. Es las 2 cosas, pero hay que saber las razones correctas de su maldad/bondad. En esta nota de Techi hay algunos de los datos mas serios que me he encontrado al respecto.
Además aprenderan algunas palabrejas nuevas, como: Cyberloafing y Goldbricking…

If you’re reading this now on and you don’t believe that internet addiction isn’t real, chances are you’re in denial. That doesn’t mean that you have it, but you likely know someone who spends more time online than they do in the “real” world. It’s okay. If it’s you that has it, you’re not alone.

The internet can be a wonderful place. It keeps us engaged and informed. It presents portions of the world that we would never have been able to see otherwise and lets us meet and interact with people who we never would have known. Communication, information sharing, expression of opinions, the speed of news, entertainment availability – all of these are things that are made possible through the internet and the internet alone. Even television, as groundbreaking of an innovation as it was, didn’t have the same type of impact that the internet has had on society.

It makes us smarter. It makes us dumber. It empowers us and enslaves us.

The truth is this: there are millions of people who cannot imagine life without internet access. For most, there’s nothing wrong with this. For others, it’s debilitating and harmful. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot that can be done. People can have interventions and try to get their loved ones help, but that’s extremely difficult. Like any addiction, most won’t admit it and fewer are willing to get help for it. They don’t want it. They feel like the internet has made them better, stronger, more intelligent, and more entertained.

It’s the way of the world today.

This exceptionally comprehensive infographic by Maps of World breaks down the realities, myths, and categories of internet addiction. It asks the question about whether or not internet addiction is real, but I think we all know the answer to that…

http://bit.ly/XoBlFb

Internet addiction?

DARPA Robot

Los reflejos y movimientos de este robotito bípedo de la asociación militar norteamericana DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) son como bien dice esta nota de Techi, demasiado humanos. Entiendo la intención de crear una máquina que se desplaze perfectamente en ambientes hostiles (para investigación y rescate, supuestamente), pero no por eso deja ser creepy…

It’s one thing that it’s shaped like a human with a torso, two arms, and two legs. It’s another thing that the way it climbs, jumps, and circumvents holes is strikingly similar to a clumsy human.

This “Pet-Proto” is a predecessor to DARPA’s Atlas robot. By using a combination of decision-making and enhanced human suggestion, the robot is designed to face obstacles similar to what it will face in the DARPA Robotic Challenge. The goal – to create a robot that can be used in extreme conditions when humans would be put in too much danger such as search and rescue in hostile environments…

http://bit.ly/SZlyKS

DARPA Robot

Physical Face Cloning

Una tecnología conocida como Physical Face Cloning está siendo aplicada para la nueva generación de animatronix en los parques de Disney. Como bien dice el artículo, el realismo es tal que da escalofríos…

The science of entertainment is getting more complicated. Disney Research in Zurich and Walt Disney Imagineering at Cornell are working on Physical Face Cloning to be able to create animatronics characters that behave with the precision of a human face.

First, they are designing a synthetic skin that can mimic the movements and tendencies of human skin. How the skin on a face reacts to motions such as talking has been problematic, but the Disney team hopes that a silicon based solution guided by computer simulations will be the answer. Here are two videos that they recently released showing the progress of the research…

http://youtu.be/WnE4vcvHxo8

Physical Face Cloning

13% of all e-mails

Si el 13% de todos los mails que se leen es solo en producutos Apple, no imagino cuántos se abrirán en todo tipo de móviles?… Seguramente por esto algunos pensamos que no solo el e-mail, sino todas las desktops ya van de salida…

13% of all opened emails are read on iPhones and iPads

Many believe that email is dying. Apparently, it isn’t. We’re communicating more through other means such as SMS, social media, and IM, but despite being clunky and having and “old-tech” feel, people still rely on email and read it every day. In fact, it’s estimated that there will be 3.8 billion email users worldwide by 2014.

According to information collected by Litmus, the iPad and iPhone account for 13% of all emails opened. That’s not to say that 13% of email users have iDevices — it’s more likely less than 1%. It simply means that Apple device users receive and read more of their emails on their devices rather than through webmail or desktop options.

While desktop email clients such as Outlook and Apple Mail have maintained a steady hold on usage because of their business applications, webmail is dropping dramatically thanks to the mobile device infusion into the marketplace. This infographic explores all three options and dives deeper into the statistics. As the world continues to move towards mobile devices as primary connections to email, social media, and all forms of digital communication, can the current webmail leaders, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, continue to be webmail-only?…

http://bit.ly/nSvf0X

13% of all e-mails

Solar laptops

The needs to go green, be mobile, and be productive collide in Andrea Ponti’s concept design for solar powered laptop, one that does not require a peripheral attachment to harness the power of the sun. Designed with a solar panel behind the monitor and one beneath the touch keyboard, it would be the first completely-solar laptop ever… if it gets produced.

That part of the equation is unclear at this point. While it did not win a prize at Fujitsu’s 2011 design competition, it is reportedly shortlisted amongst their potential projects. Dubbed the “Luce” (Italian for “light”), it weighs 1850g (4 lbs) and is made of a clear polycarbonate…

http://t.co/FPEj9BV

Solar laptops

no ‘tablet market’

He visto que la mayoría de las personas que ya tienen una tablet son, casi siempre, gente que no tiene ni dea de qué hacer con ellas. Estos nuevos “juguetitos” estan aún en un lento proceso de ser explorados, entendidos y finalmente aprovechados por la mayoría de la gente. Y a pesar de que “todo mundo quiere una”, su mercado aún está en pañales. Este artículo habla sobre eso y llega aún más allá, atreviéndose a decir que realmente aún NO EXISTE ese mercado, y da razones de ello.

http://t.co/cxS12jJ

Yo digo que aunque defectuoso, lleno de limitaciones, y sin futuro claro, el mercado ya existe. Como sea, si son amantes de los gadgets échenle un ojo a esto, sobre todo quienes tengan en mente comprar una tablet (iPad u otra), pero con una visión más allá de usarla para juegos de pajaritos, aplicaciones chuscas o como lector de noticias. Que por cierto, esto tambien pasa mucho con el iPhone, un verdadero éxito entre los jóvenes mas desinformados, que como siempre son las presas más fáciles para la publicidad aspiracional pero hueca, como la que manejan apple y otras marcas.

va un fragmento y la liga…

So, let’s get this out of the way now: there is no ‘tablet market’.

There is no huge demographic out there craving and desiring a tablet computer. There are millions of iPad customers. And there a few hundred thousand people – maybe even a few million worldwide – who desperately want a tablet running Android, WebOS or QNX.

Yet because that’s true right now, it doesn’t mean things won’t change. The tablet is just too inevitably necessary for the (lack of a) market to stay that way. The need for a web-connected frame for content of all sorts is just too obvious. And while tablets will not and are not meant to replace the traditional computer, they will eventually become ubiquitous.

But what will it take to get there?…

no ‘tablet market’