Dell has paid a staggering $67 billion for EMC, an enterprise storage solutions provider (oh, and that VMware thing). That could sound nice in the regular newspaper, but the deal is a little weird both for end users and for enterprise users. End users don’t really know that Dell has been playing a prominent …
Author: Javier Pastor
→Javier Pastor is a technology journalist that has been writing about tech since 1999. He started writing for PC Actual in Spain, the leading printed magazine in the country, and in 2006 started to write online. First as the Chief Editor for The Inquirer ES, and after that for MuyComputer until 2013. That year he became senior editor at Xataka, the leading tech news website in Spanish with over 5M uniques/month (Aug'15, comScore). Xataka is part of Weblogs SL, a blog network that gets over 40M uniques/month and that has a wide catalog of publications in Spanish.
The Unshut is his new venture and allows him to express his opinions and thoughts on everything touched by technology, and follows what he has been doing at Incognitosis, his personal blog, since 2005.
Owners say that TSMC A9 SoC delivers two hours more battery life than Samsung’s A9. Problems coming for Apple. This doesn’t make much sense: TSMC chips are made with 16nm vs Samsung’s 14nm. That would benefit the latter in efficiency and raw power but the tests show exaclty the opposite. I wonder if this is …
Microsoft has accomplished something extraordinary today. It has made people not to need their products, but to actually want them. The new Lumias 950/XL became a dream come true: real convergence for devices that can act as smartphones or as complete PCs depending on our needs. But even more impressive is the launch of both the …
I love Twitter. I use it constantly and it replaced RSS feeds as my main source for information long ago. I believe the product accomplishes what it promised nicely, but others are now getting more interest at what Twitter did better first. Facebook and new contenders such as Apple News or even apps that weren’t …
I wasn’t impressed by last year Nexus 6, and I’m not impressed by this year’s Nexus 5X and 6P either. The first one was an expensive super-phone (in every sense), and the new phones are not cheap either (at least not outside the US) and they aren’t specially different from the proposals from the traditional …
Amazon.com Inc. will stop selling media-streaming devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with its video service, the latest example of the company using its clout to promote products that fit with its own retailing strategy. It’s unfair for users that take advantage of Amazon great service, but it’s a …
The aspect ratio on Google’s new tablet is the square root of two. Why? Brian Barrett gives us an explanation of the weird aspect ratio ( 1:√2, about 1:1.41) on the new Google Pixel C Tablet. The explanation is divided in two: It makes websites and webapps more “appealing”. If you divide the Pixel C’s screen in …
Apple brings refinement and under-the-hood changes to Yosemite’s new design. Ars Technica has been publishing the best, more detailed and more complete reviews of OS X since its first version 14 years ago. John Siracusa became a legend in this scenario, and he decided to stop reviewing it last April: There is no single, dramatic …
The original Fairphone was really a fair phone, but this second generation model goes even further. This is a phone that defies Project Ara and other modular concepts. Owners can replace the screen, the microphone, the speaker, the camera, and the main circuit board using nothing more complicated than a screwdriver, with all the replacement …
Two reasons why Apple can talk about a new record: The new iPhones were available in China from day one Two weeks for preorders this year instead of the classical one week. That could be good arguments, but comparisons are useless and unfair, as almost anytime one tries to do them. The 13 million of …