Since web piracy has emerged as a powerful “source of loss” – if We only consider piracy as the source of those losses, forgetting that industries have mostly applied some obsolete models for years now -  for the music, video game, software, movies, … industries – mostly with Napster in the early 2000s -, We can read many articles announcing the death or the end [...]

Yesterday, I finally got my beta tester Swype version. It doesn’t include a French pack and it is  QWERTY – not AZERTY – but this is wonderful, it works great on my Nexus One. The first time I tested that keyboard was few months ago on a Galaxy S – Swype is pre loaded on those phones. I knew it [...]

Yesterday night we got to see a very cool Google animation. My excitment was dampened by A.’s declaration that the animation for Pacman’s birthday was better. Google celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene. It’s a pretty nifty doodle of a fullerene. If you’re wondering what this is all about, a fullerene is any molecule that is entirely [...]

Since this winter, and since the iPad rumors get stronger and stronger – during CES, commentators were expecting the iPad to be introduced by Jobs – , tablets became the new tech companies battlefield. Almost every company has launched its tablet, from Asus to Sony, Apple, … Even if most of those tablets were only concepts, this phenomenon showed one thing: tablets [...]

Android took off more than one year ago now, and what has been a very young and under-development project is now one of the best mobile OS. I remember more than one year ago when the first Android devices arrived on the market (G1 but also here in France the HTC Magic), We were wondering where this project would go [...]

We’re now posting the official press shots of that new Archos’ Gen 8 . As You can see those are Android devices, with a special Archos layer over it.

Archos is well known for its achievements in the PMP and MP3 players areas. After all, Archos has been a pioneer in the MP3 players development, Apple didn’t invent that type of device, Archos had created MP3 players for a few years before the first Ipod was launched. Then Archos has fully developed PMP tactile devices, its 4th generation being [...]

So tonight we get to see the new line of Archos products. A few journalists already had the chance to review some of them. We get half an hour with the Head of Archos for Southern Europe. From what we know for sure that some of the devices are as small as 2.8″  and the range goes all the way [...]

The Rooftop of the Grande Arche in Paris, France will no longer be open. That information in and of itself is not something deeply profound. The reason to mourn this closure is the the Ministry of ecology and long term development, owner of the place, decided to close down the Museum dedicated to video games that was housed in it. [...]