http://charbax.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:24:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWow, I beat my record for the amount of videos that I filmed and have posted from a 4-day consumer electronics conference. I uploaded 72 videos to Youtube from CES 2010 in HD 1280x720 9mbit/s quality. And I still have at least 2 more videos ... http://charbax.com/2010/01/21/i-uploaded-72-videos-at-ces-2010/ I just launched a new site at http://armdevices.net the design and features will be improved during the next few days. I video-blogged from Netbook World Summit and LeWeb conferences in Paris during the past 3 days, I will publish all the videos to my http://techvideoblog.com over the next few days. I posted ... http://charbax.com/2009/12/10/launching-armdevicesnet-filming-conferences-and-writing-articles/ Chrome OS Laptops will cost 50 dollars and run 20 hours on a battery, and come with free unlimited 3G internet data connectivity. Chrome OS is not going to be companion to Windows/Mac, Chrome OS is destroying Microsoft/Apple and even Intel. You will be able to run powerful and free image and ... http://charbax.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-is-better/ It is simply ridiculous that it has had to be delayed so many years just because the system caters to an outdated system where publishers and distributors make the largest amount of profits from sales of books, newspapers, magazines. Those intermediaries need to go away and authors, artists, journalists need ... http://charbax.com/2009/11/14/unlimited-access-to-books-on-google/ Google announced Terrabyte storage for 256 dollars per year for Picasa web photo storage. I still think Google has a long way to go. $256 per TB per year is 8x more than the current price of buing a TB hard drive on the open market and using it for ... http://charbax.com/2009/11/11/cheapest-cloud-storage-needed/ I have been posting this as a feature request on Google feedback groups since May 2007, today Google is launching real feed item recommendations, which they call Magic. My request from May 20th 2007: Backup up somewhere cause I cannot find it in the archives of the official Google Group Subject: Personalized News ... http://charbax.com/2009/10/22/google-implements-my-idea-for-google-reader-recommendations/ I like to speculate on Youtube's potential for profits and revenues on my blog in those previous posts: http://charbax.com/2009/04/09/what-google-pays-for-youtube/ , http://charbax.com/2008/08/14/current-global-youtube-bandwidth-might-be-126-petabytes-per-month/ , http://charbax.com/2008/08/07/google-should-activate-overlay-youtube-ads-now/ , http://charbax.com/2008/06/28/youtube-needs-to-change/ , http://charbax.com/2008/04/30/when-google-starts-to-revolutionize-youtube-using-overlay-advertising/ and http://charbax.com/2008/01/09/i-just-interviewed-the-youtube-founders/ Today Youtube announces officially that they are serving more than 1 Billion video views per day. So here are my latest calculations ... http://charbax.com/2009/10/09/my-new-speculation-on-youtubes-potential/ 1. They are much cheaper. Cheapest unlocked 3G-enabled ARM based laptops will be sold at $100 without any carrier contracts needed. 2. ARM Laptops have no screen size limits. Get a 15" ARM powered laptop for $200 soon. 3. ARM Laptops run 15-20 hours on a small 3-cell battery at the minimum. 4. ... http://charbax.com/2009/08/14/arm-laptops-will-win/ The EU should force all Laptop and Desktop OEMs to provide the consumer the option to save instantly the cost of the OS at the counter and not have it pre-installed on their machine. And any consumer purchasing a laptop or desktop with an OS pre-installed should be able to ... http://charbax.com/2009/07/28/eu-should-force-oems-to-ship-computers-without-the-os/ Problem Google needs to fix is that people will use it to store DivX and Mp3 files, so Google needs to make sure corporations won't sue Google for facilitating piracy. So it should have a focus on monetizing video and music. Google won't have to store more than 1 copy of ... http://charbax.com/2009/07/27/video-and-music-rights-on-google-drive/