Category Archives: Mobile devices

My notebook battery is dying. Why?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Most of us have suffered the loss of power of a battery after some months or if we are lucky (or select hardware wisely) after some years. There are a lot of misconceptions and a lot of myths around this … Continue reading →

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No internet connection? Fix the TV antenna!

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

A consortium of companies like Microsoft, BBC, Sky Broadcasting and BT has started trials of transmitting data in empty spaces of the radio spectrum used by terrestrial TV. If they are successful, they will create “super WiFi” networks in cities … Continue reading →

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Elephants love mangoes

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

I only had two missing apps to be completely satisfied with my Windows Phone 7, Skype and EverNote (there are still a lot of missing features that Mango, the upcoming update, will mostly provide). Skype has already been announced and will … Continue reading →

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Do you want Android on your PC? Or Mac?

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

If you are a developer on a tight budget and need access to various Android environments, there is now a solution. Thanks to the Android-x86 Project team you can have your own Android PC or even better a virtualized environment … Continue reading →

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Μάνγκο αντί για μήλο

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

Σήμερα ανακοινώθηκαν (μετά από αμέτρητες διαρροές) οι νέες λειτουργίες και οι αλλαγές στο Windows Phone 7. Το περίφημο “Mango” που επίσημα πλέον ονομάζεται Windows Phone 7.1 (και όχι WP 7.5 όπως περίμεναν οι περισσότεροι) θα έχει περισσότερα από 500 νέα χαρακτηριστικά … Continue reading →

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Mono project: Take #2

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

It’s just a few days after I wrote about the Mono project and seems that my timing was not very good. The whole team was “disassembled” in the beginning of May due to the takeover of Novell by Attachmate. Mono is … Continue reading →

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Linux? What Linux?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

You may have not noticed it but nobody is talking about Linux any more (which by the way is not a good thing, because I do not consider a closed and controlled system like MacOSX a competitor of Windows – … Continue reading →

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Do you switch off your phone while abroad?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

BBC touches a painful issue for mobility: roaming tariffs. They seem to be optimistic, but my personal experience (and I believe any frequent traveller’s) shows that every cent that the operators “lose” due to the EU’s close regulation is going … Continue reading →

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Slate for the masses

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

There is another kind of world that needs technology to improve business processes. And it can’t afford an iPad, a Xoom or a Tab…   A low-tech Microsoft slate for the masses | ZDNet.

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Nokia and Microsoft – an unholy alliance?

Posted on February 11, 2011 by

We are living in interesting times… Nokia and Microsoft are “shaking hands” on many different things and not just a smartphone OS platform. Till now they were considered to be “enemies” even though they had already agreements on Exchange and … Continue reading →

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