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Happy New Year!!!

Goodbye 2010! Hello 2011! Enjoy, have fun and celebrate! A good year has ended and a better year is starting. May you have a Happy and a Prosperous New Year!!!

Best Tech of 2010: Cars, SUVs and Hybrids

2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for cars, SUVs and hybrids that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: e-Readers and Other Must Have Portable Devices

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best mobile technologies in general that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: Digital Cameras and Photography

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for cameras and photography in general that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: TVs, Players and Portable Entertainment

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for home and mobile entertainment that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: Gamers Gaming Games

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for gamers that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: Smartphones and, wait for it... Super Smartphones

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for mobiles phones, particularly smartphones, that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010: Desktop and Mobile Computers

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2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies for desktop and mobile computers that made remarkable achievements in 2010...

Best Tech of 2010

As I See Tech's 2010 year-ender report is here! 2010 has been a great year for technology in general affecting various sectors and cultural groups around the world. Here is As I See Tech's rundown of the best technologies that made remarkable achievements in 2010... Desktop and Mobile Computers Smartphones and, wait for it... Super Smartphones Gamers Gaming Games TVs, Players and Portable Entertainment Digital Cameras and Photography e-Readers and Other Must Have Portable Devices Cars, SUVs and Hybrids Links to these articles get activated as they become available. You may bookmark this post so you can quickly link to them! Or, just check back regularly as the list gets completed before the New Year. If you are on Facebook, find As I See Tech on Facebook , get updates in real time and  keep the discussion going ...

Greetings + Musical Gift = Merry Christmas!

Allow my interruption of our usual tech-talk for a moment to greet everyone a merry, merry, merry Christmas! My gift to you after the break...

Last Minute Christmas...

First things first: this post is not about the website  http://www.lastminutechristmas.com . And hopefully, this post would not be in any legal battle for using a registered trademark whatchamacallit. At the last minute, I just decided to make a compilation of places to hunt for deals this Christmas... regardless if you've been naughty or nice this year 2010.

Windows Phone 7 Progress Report

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Microsoft finally has an official statement on how much Windows Phone 7 units have been pushed to retailers: 1.5 million in 6 weeks. Meanwhile, their Marketplace have grown from 1,000 apps since launch to 4,000 apps worldwide. The reactions are mixed but, as Microsoft puts it, the progress is as expected .

Microsoft, Windows and the User Interface

Computers, OSes and applications have evolved over the years adjusting and changing to user habits, trends and what have you. Most of the time, the changes are subtle. Sometimes, they are drastic. But over time, the changes can get all mixed-up so that many users could get confused about how to use them... and how not to use them.

When Technology Doesn't Work For You...

One day, you decided to re-organized your inbox with folders and rules. Next thing you know, you missed important e-mails and notes. It's not necessarily because the technology was not working for you. Most of the time, it was because you didn't know how to use the technology well. When that happens, simply go back and make changes until everything really works for you.

Digging...

Yes, I'm diggin'... :-)

Kinecting the Minority Report Interface

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If you've seen the 2002 movie Minority Report , you know exactly what the "Minority Report interface" is. In that popular scene, detective John Anderton (played by Tom Cruise) and his team, in a race against time, worked on a transparent glass widescreen to browse and search through a collection of the precogs' digitized prophecies, supposedly containing visual clues that could lead to a crime that would happen at a specific time in the future. The plot seemed far fetched enough, but what really placed the audience in awe was the way Anderton was literally gesturing his commands to the computer. It was enough to tickle a lot of fancies and imagination. It was the ultimate inspiration for how we should be interacting with our computers in the future.

A Decade of Natural User Interfaces

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Natural User Interfaces (NUI) got a big boost from different companies in the first decade of the the 21st century. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Sony and Nintendo have released devices that exemplify the practical applications of NUI through multi-touch screens, spatial gestures and speech.

What in the World is a Touchbook?!

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Once upon a time, there was the notebook. Then it merged with tablets to create the tablet hybrids. Then there were netbooks, which are basically small notebooks. And now, a whole new category of mobile computer is coming out for real and it's appropriately called the touchbook .

Intel's Mobile Plans

There is a need for better processors targeting mobile devices. The engineering capabilities of today have made it possible to shrink the size of computers, taking them out of the appliance category into something as mobile as we are. Intel seems to recognize this trend and plans more products focusing on the mobile device market.

HTML5 Matters: Tomorrow's Web Today

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HTML5 is the next major iteration of the HTML standard. HTML5 includes built-in support for rich content presentation and enhanced user experiences. It has built-in support to enhance on-line and off-line application capabilities. It also has a new set of APIs that greatly eases the development of advanced web applications without the need for third-party plug-ins. For web developers, HTML5 is generally an important upgrade for the web since Web 2.0 became mainstream.

The Mobile Device of the Future Is NOT a Phone

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Computers are getting smaller and more powerful every year. Regardless of whether we call them PCs, laptops, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, slates, smart phone, game consoles, etc., they are all computers at the core. As our lifestyles continue to get attached to the computer, we take the computer out of the appliance category and make them as mobile as we are.

Why The World Needs a New OS... And a New Internet

The world needs a new OS . It doesn't have to be as commercialized as Windows, iOS or Android. It doesn't have to be as glamorous as Mac OS. And it doesn't have to be as big as Unix. The new OS just has to exist in order to revolutionize the future of computing in a way far beyond how we know it today.

On WikiLeakS, Information, Power and Responsibility

A recent controversial topic in the news is WikiLeakS.org . Well, from the very beginning, WikiLeakS has always been controversial. The very purpose and reason of its existence is by itself controversial. If you think about it, security-conscious entities, including the government, should have taken WikiLeakS seriously since it launched in 2006 -- as early as possible before it becomes anything close to uncontrollable.

Kindle Wins: A Biased Point of View

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The Kindle is the best selling e-reader around. Its e-Ink screen is the most eye-friendly to look at for long reading hours. The Kindle 3 design is sleek, simple and sized just right. So looking at the other e-readers available, rich with extra features and functionalities, what makes Kindle tick?

Why the Philippines Was the Texting Capital of the World

The Philippines was the original texting capital of the world. When SMS was introduced to the public in 1995, it was used as a promotional gimmick for the hearing impaired. It was in fact originally offered as a value-added service available for free to subscribers. Not surprisingly, Filipinos started getting cellphones for the purpose of texting only so that they could communicate instantly for free. The telecoms caught on to this trend and started charging PHP1.00 per text message. For some good reason, that price did not change since...

Experience with XBox 360 Kinect

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I was finally able to try out Kinect last weekend. I played the Kinect Adventures and the Kinect MotionSports games. It was fun and very, very, very tiring. Good thing our good host served food that night. Otherwise, I would have given up after the first game!