Technology on Zio Ivan

Job's (a bit) wrong

Sun, 02 May 2010 11:30:14 +0000

This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash.

Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share

[…] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers. […]

Ehm, what about Netscape Gecko? It’s not just Firefox and it’s share of web users, much larger than the one of Safari, but also the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is very much involved in building (W3C) standards like HTML5 et similia. I can see that you used the word “Almost”, but that’s not a good start: Steve, let’s try to be more fair here.

At the Google I/O 2009

Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:35 +0000

Just a quick one. First day of the Google I/O 2009 in San Francisco (CA). Apart from a lot of informative and interesting topics and breakout sessions (I mainly focused on App Engine and Android), I came back at home full of:

Stickers
T-shirt
Google Chrome comic paperback version
A brand new “Google I/O device”, that is a black HTC Magic sim and firmware unlocked for developers + Android Market with Paid Apps support + Amazon Mp3 store +…!!!. How much? For FREE, of course!!!

I like angry techs

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:31:03 +0000

I wrote about Hadoop some time ago (for “some reasons”) and I did EXACTLY what Ted Dziubas says here.

But I’m not offended at all: he is 100% right! And I strongly suggest to take a look at this article: in the middle of his swearing there is, actually, some good stuff about “what is going on in the Web2.0 Yet Again Exploding Bubble!!!

Cleaning Apple "Classic" Keyboard

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:58:12 +0000

You know, I’m picky when it’s about woman and technology (and food, but not as much as for the previous). Apple, a while ago now, get rid of the the normal/classical keyboard with big and deep keys (that every proper geek/software engineer loves)…

… to replace it with the crap, ultra slim, no-noisy, no-tasty, no-feedback alluminum+plastic keyboard.

A shame. A real shame.

The Morph Concept

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:10:02 +0000

An impressive video from the Nokia Research Center: it shows a concept technology called “Morph” based on the usage of NanoTechnology for mobile devices (I feel that continue to call them “phones” is becoming very reductive).

I’m sorry I can’t embed the video in this post: you can find it here.