To understand the mobile development scene, we must first know who are the present industry leaders and who are the new contenders for 2013/14. In Q4 2012, the most used mobile operating systems were Android (with the 68.4% of market share) and iOS (with the 19.4% of market share). Both together grabbed the 92% of the global Smartphone shipments. These results make Java (Android) Read more
If content is king, data is queen
Open data has become a very serious topic. Governments and corporations invest a lot of effort in1 developing software to capture, process, store and distribute data (data.gov.uk, data.gov, Google API,Twitter API, Flickr API, Facebook API etc.), which is then offered back to the community. Although the neutrality of the Internet is being questioned and threatened by lobbies and governments across the world, Read more
HTC One X (Price and availability)
Las minute: Available next April 5th 2012 at Clove for 492 pounds / 590€ At Three, O2, Orange and Vodafone (promo in homepage) they will probably offer a 24 monhts plan. You can signup to receive updates... My personal opinion In the last few weeks, I've been studying Android phones with two cores like the Samsung Galaxy Note Read more
Building your own cloud
I admit it! I have a wealth of multimedia files: dozens of applications, hundreds of music albums, hours and hours of TV series and movies, countless folders with photos and who knows how many old documents. That adds up to a terrabyte or more. What does a geek like me have to do to access Read more
Some things are much more important than others
Almost all of us have heard about the 80:20 principle, also known as the Pareto principle which says: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes This means that 80% of what we accomplish is due to 20% of the efforts we put into it. This principle has only been used in recent years to Read more
Taking control over our Android phone
Fully-integrated services offered by Smart phones like the iPhone and Android devices have now ushered us into the era of mobile 2.0, where normal phone calls are overshadowed by new options such as downloading applications, social networking, video, internet, high resolution photography, Skype, WhatsApp, etc. These small machines are computers in every measure, however marketed Read more


