Tech Stuffs n' More

If you have been following my blog you might have noticed my interest in the technology surrounding today's Web. I would suggest you to read  this  then  this  and finally  this  so you can have an idea of what my point of view is and how it have evolved on this subject. I would like to quote myself on the first one posted around 2005: In my vision of what future may be the OS and the Internet will be fused together so everything we will have to care about its what browser to use, because every tool, program, game will be hosted in the Internet. So all we will need its a great broadband connection and a good browser/OS to link us to all that.  Some call it Web 2.0 but to me its going an step further. Specially after recent announcement of Amazon's Kindle Fire and even more with its companion Amazon Silk browser which in few words is a split-architecture part device part cloud powered browser. Sounds familiar right? You might want to take a look ...

Following the path of my previous posts maybe its time to talk about how things might change for the next 6 years. And it looks like we have a clear tendency on where things are going. Mobility and online services! Devices are getting faster lighter and smarter -Heck my current smartphone is faster than the laptop I had at the university over 6 years ago-  and this is happening really fast. On 2007 we had the first iPhone and on 2008 the first commercially available Android phone. These devices were barely capable of multitasking but today we have dual-cores on the way. So we already have a path set on the device arena. Multi-core, massive storage, front facing cameras, 3D cameras/screens, HD recording.. etc. etc. etc. And the most challenging ...energy efficient! What about the networks? On some countries ISP providers are speeding up on deploying their LTE and WIMAX networks. Sadly Spain is not one of them. We still have to wait for the frequency spectrum to be auction...

The mobile technology is becoming more and more part of our everyday activities. This weekend I had the chance to flight (from Madrid to Paris) for the first time without printing a single page. Not even having to get a boarding pass on a desk. All thanks to today's technology. All I had to do to check in was to log into the Iberia site. Sign in with my frequent flyer number. Choose a seat and get a QR code on my email. The rest was just as easy as open the image sent on my email and scan it on the airport to pass security and board the plane. I have to say that I've felt the geek side of me rejoice with it. Sadly this method is still not yet adopted by most of the passengers. In fact I don't recall anyone else using it nearby me. Hopefully the use of smartphones will keep on growing and more services like this would be showing up. And to make more geekier this entry on my blog I decided to write it from the Blogger application of my Android :)