Searching for the future e-commerce solution

2012 might very well confirm a drive towards what could amount to be a trending movement where different platforms could converge.

Keywords such as innovation and internationalization are more often becoming part of our vocabulary. The reason for this is that international markets are becoming a necessity, rather than an option, to fill up the gap left by the local options for companies to sell their products and services.

Similar to the convergence of internet, TV and phones into one device, a major

Facebook and Amazon plan to sell smartphones

While Android has proven to be tremendously successful for Google, Facebook is intending to compete for the enormous advertising market, as well as for similar opportunities which the search giant is enjoying at this moment.


The critical thing for the user to consider has to do with the well known issues and challenges in terms of security that the everyone would potentially face knowing that the much talked about 

Vision, Creativity and Determination to follow his heart

A Tribute to Steve Jobs 

"You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something. Your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that

IT, Energy and Biotech, key in future tech developments

Current developments in IT, Energy and Biotech will prove key in future growth. At this point, 

Facebook going into the Music business

Facebook is said to be teaming up with Spotify, Pandora and others in order to get into the Music industry.

The strategy would be for users to engage into streaming music and sharing it with their friends, as well as finding out what they are listening to, so they can all recommend their musical tastes among themselves. In other words, the same idea as

Google + not a new Wave but more

The people at Google are clearly going after Facebook, but this time, in a way they have not tried before, and that is by introducing a social networking service loaded with new  features, options and a technologically different approach altogether.

We remember that they already attempted to do it before by launching  brand names such as Wave and Buzz but, inevitably, had to put them both aside, and needed to come up with something else with no time to waste, not precisely because they cannot afford being out of the competition, but because it is a matter of

Mobile strategies constantly modified

As mobile device usage increases, new marketing strategies are in the horizon. A study from Oxford and SAP concluded that close to 60 percent of executives believe mobile phones will impact their businesses substantially within the next five years. The fact that half a million Android devices are activated every day is clear evidence of this trend. 

On the other hand, due to their inmediacy, ubiquity and comfort, more mobile devices are replacing PC usage.

Businesses across the industry spectrum are paying attention, and therefore, are also having to adjust their marketing strategies in order  to face the challenge of their users' constant change of habits, particularly the young. They are used to owning several models, but keep looking for a  device which allows them more freedom and provides better features. In the quest for that particular one device, smartphones are doing the job and, because of that,  becoming extremely popular. Nielsen indicates in a recent study that these

World Health Org. warns on cancer from mobile phone radiation

After years of hesitation before making the anouncement, the World Health Organization (WHO) has pronounced itself acknowledging what many scientists around the world have already stated quite clearly. Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields generated by mobile phones may cause cancer.

There is a significant number of theories coming from reputed scientists on this subject, and most of them confirm that, in fact, there is a potential

It rained and poured over Amazon Cloud

One of the most critical issues in deploying a large scale cloud is that a relatively minor configuration bug could impact not just one computer but the whole network in that particular cloud. This is, to a certain extent, what happened this week to Amazon Web Services cloud in an incident the company is blaming on an error by a tech person, which

SMB going Cloud

After a series of determining actions that are going to define the future of IT infrastructure, it is evident that not only large corporations but mainly small and medium businesses are taking the necessary steps to adopt cloud as their standard of choice.

If companies in the SMB sector are going to stay competitive, their CIO's will be required that their units be able to handle enough power to deploy a large amount of

Mobile World Congress 2011

This year's meeting has brought a number of interesting surprises among the brands that are considered tha movers and shakers of the industry. One of those is the fact that LTE will 

Switching priorities

In the technology world, things move at the speed of light. This is due to the constant pressure to produce devices able to handle apps and operations of greater complexity. 

Companies are also demanding machines with a computing capacity that will have to keep getting higher, as well as solutions that can incorporate all of these plus