This is a good summary of some of the problems big media assets are fighting against. Google, Apple and Facebook are trying to control the news and our way to get informed. They are trying to control content, because content is the gateway to ads. Quoting Patel: Unfortunately, the ads pay for all that content, …
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.
I felt dissapointed after watching Jobs (2013) and more recently Steve Jobs : The Man in the Machine (2015). Steve Jobs (2015) seems really promising. The just released second trailer is a little more revealing that I’d want to, but whatever. Jobs’ daughter, Lisa, seems to have a prominent role, which as far as I know …
We spent less than $100 to give a completely fake business a great online reputation. Fantastic history. One you can easily learn something from. You can’t be certain anymore about that business or that product based on online reviews. Creating fake alternatives and getting certain reputation for them is nowadays quite easy. As with many …
The new content blocking feature in the new iOS 9 seems to have started a renewed interest for privacy. Marco Arment just released his own tool based on the Ghostery (a well known extension for desktop browsers) database. I wonder how many others will take advantage in iOS, Android or Windows 10 Mobile. The name …
Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. Today users will be able to upgrade to the final version of iOS 9. There are no big announcements here, but it doesn’t matter because there are several little enhancements overall. I’ve not tested it, but if you want to …
One developer has found out that Apple TV games all must work with the remote, they can’t require an MFi controller at all. This is according to Apple guidelines in the App Programming Guide for tvOS, which states that “Your game must support the Apple TV remote. Your game may not require I really don’t …
Windows RT users get some love from Microsoft, which is nice. I don’t think there will be much more updates on that OS now that Windows 10 is a unified system that works across different platforms and architectures. No universal apps for Windows RT, no Continuum, no unified Store, but at least they can enjoy …
There will be no “dislike” button, but the founder and CEO says the social network will soon test a way for people to express emotions with a shorthand interaction. Marketing Land is one of the few sites that get this right. Most titles are just clickbait. Facebook won’t have a ‘Dislike’ button, far from it. …
Fantastic piece from The Verge that analyses the myth behind the “rice treatment” to wet phones. Three lessons learned: Never, ever, try to power on the phone after it getting wet. Wait until it dries completely. The idea is to “expel fluids out” from the phone. Rice doesn’t help, but at least “hides” the phone …
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 seems a beefy proposal for future smartphones. Let’s hope it doesn’t overheat as its predecessor, something that has really made other makers to look for alternatives in their flagship devices this year. One of the most important features is Quick Charge 3.0, which allos to charge 80% of the battery …