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Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers … Continue reading →

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Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source … Continue reading →

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Firefox to support OGG in

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag to embed the videos on web pages. Will be ready on 3.1 release. This is great news … Continue reading →

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Antifeatures

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Mako Hill has been talking about the Antifeatures, which are features that you don’t want but the product costs more when they don’t have them instead of costing more for adding them. Sounds tricky? Well, maybe its more understandable with … Continue reading →

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Post iPhone announcements

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

After today’s iPhone announcements and all the excitement that has been generated, I started thinking about the competition. The nokia n95 and all the other smart phones have little advantage over the attractiveness of an iPhone. The features and the … Continue reading →

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Telmex bloquea puerto 25

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Gabriel Saldaña

UPDATE: para poder enviar emails aun teniendo el puerto 25 bloqueado, presento una solucion en mi post Soluciones al bloqueo del puerto 25 Telmex ha decidido bloquear el puerto 25 en una medida, segun ellos, Anti Spam. Esto solo aplica … Continue reading →

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