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We recently featured a piece on Sony’s rather belated launch of the PS2 in Brazil a few months ago, and as if that wasn’t evidence enough of the ultra raw deal that Brazilian tech consumers get, then this piece from Gizmodo should leave little room for doubt…
Gizmodo compared prices of Macbooks in some of the territories where Apple officially operates (i.e. not through importers), and discovered that Brazil is unsurprisingly the most expensive region for buying such items. This certainly follows that general trend (it is not just Macbooks that cost more over there), but it does also reveal a slightly disproportionate mark-up, in that Apple products seem to be even more over-priced there than other electronics (pretty much double…
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We here at EtonDigital make no secret of how much we like Drupal (check our blog for recent posts on the topic) and so it’s no surprise we’re quite liking the look of the newest addition to the Drupal product range – Drupal Gardens, which aims to remove the need for Drupal users to download code to run off their own servers, and instead offers a browser based interface (much like Wordpress) for managing blogging, forums, social integration and loads more.
Currently Drupal Gardens is in invite-only beta testing mode, with general availability expected within the next few months (sign up at the DG homepage). Whatsmore all of these services will be free for the remainder of the year so don’t…
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Techcrunch recently announced the results of their annual tech awards – ‘The Crunchies’, with some exciting and original new names being recognised among the more established older companies and services. Once more Facebook has done extremely well, despite some controversy over its continued classification as a ’start-up’ (it has won the award for ‘best overall start-up’ for three years running…)
Anyway click over to the original Techcrunch post for a link to watch the full ceremony live – I won’t spoil the other results for you here, apart from one which I think deserves a special mention: Spotify (which won the ‘best international’ award). A fantastic service of which I’m a big fan, and perhaps even more crucially – possibly the thing…
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Things are getting interesting over in the Chinese internet search market with developments following the attack on Google gmail accounts recently reported in much of the press, with the company now threatening to pull out of the Chinese market entirely if they are not allowed to operate on the same terms as they do elsewhere in the world (i.e. uncensored search services – unlike what has been provided so far since Google entered the market in 2006 with an agreement to assist in state media censorship).
What makes this situation fascinating is the fact that, unlike anywhere else in the world, Google is not the super-size search giant of China – instead it occupies only just under a third of the…
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As recent statistics have shown, there is some fairly significant change happening in the sphere of web browser provision. Not only is Chrome’s rise now seeing it claim the third-highest placing of all browsers (previously consistently held by Safari), but the giant of the sector, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, is losing users super-fast. Unsurprisingly, alarmist headlines about the death of IE have sprung forth…
Despite losing around 0.9% points per month at the moment, IE continues to hold 63% of the market – though some predictions (such as those from analysts at Net Applications) suggest this could fall to below 50% by May. However, the stats also show that 21% of all users (i.e. one-third of the IE bunch) are still using…
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