search

Archive for January, 2007

DVD format war

Posted by maz on January 26th, 2007

The opponents in the high-definition DVD format war of standard are HD DVD and Blu-ray. Searching the web you’ll find bags of comments and analysis concerning the pros and cons of both formats. At the CES LG announced to launch a “calumet” – a multi-format player called BH100. Is this the first step towards peace? [...]

chameleon keyboards

Posted by maz on January 25th, 2007

XSKN produces a 0.5mm silicone Photoshop function key board skin for Apple. A similar FKey skin is also available for Final Cut Studio and Adobe After Effects. Fascinating! What’s next? Different skins for all Adobe Products? A “Office skin set” for PCs? A special mobile edition for your Blackberry mail client? I don’t think that [...]

processing open documents

Posted by maz on January 24th, 2007

OpenOffice.org starts a new project: ODF Toolkit. It is aimed to provide a home for components that can be used for processing ODF documents. The initiators wan’t to use as much code as possible together with the OpenOffice project but nevertheless the toolkit should be detached from the desktop application. Maybe this project is a [...]

Corporate social responsibility or just promotion

Posted by maz on January 23rd, 2007

Google started a teacher academy with the aim to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Beside this official benefit of the programm there is of course also a great advertising effect for Google Inc. Nevertheless there is a chance that this programm supports innovative ways of teaching our children. So let’s follow [...]

take advantage of the hammer

Posted by maz on January 22nd, 2007

Nick Carr posted an article in his blog that deals with the contribution IT can make to innovation. This excited a discussion (e.g comments, AccMan post) with the basic position “people and the the companies culture are the most important factors”. I totally agree to this view but there is still a point to mention: [...]


Rss Feed Tweeter button Facebook button Technorati button Reddit button Myspace button Linkedin button Delicious button Digg button