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MIGS 2014

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This year we got the great opportunity to participate again as volunteers on the Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS). As always, great talks and knowledge being shared. Here, we’ll write about what we were able to witness, however, it was far greater than that. Oculus VR We got the chance to assist to a VR…

California dreaming

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MarketLink As we have mentioned earlier, we were invited to the MarketLink event in San Diego to show our solution to several companies. MarketLink is a great program that puts to talk directly companies with potential providers, with little red tape in between. From our part, we got a chance to visit San Diego several…

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The implications of the new Apple SIM

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  Since the dawn of the iPhone, Apple has tried to shun away from operators, however reality says they’re a necessary gatekeeper to deal with. For the time being, it will continue to be this way as the operators lease the cellular frequencies on each country. As always, I like to look back to know…

Burger Hortons vs Uncle Sam

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As you might have heard, Burger King just merged with our beloved (for people living in Canada at least) Tim Hortons. I’m not an accountant, nor a tax specialist, so take this as it is: A far away armchair opinion of the events. Naturally, feel free to correct any wrong statement. That being said ……

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Content Update for Terra Icons

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After our grandiose launching of Terra Icons v 2.0 :-), we think it would be nice to share an update on how the content progression is doing. Added cities (services): San Diego (Icons & Trolley) Seattle (Icons) Caracas (Icons & Metro), Bogota (TransMilenio) Panama (Metro) Brisbane (CityCycle) Zaragoza (Bizi). Added services to existing cities: Mexico…

The ghost of being too early

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There’s a saying: Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it That’s a motto I try to follow, as such, history is something that I like and I always factor in an analysis. There’s also another quote that I factor in an analysis: Being early is the same as being wrong The previous,…

Amazon’s FireFly tech, AR coming of age

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Last week the Amazon Fire phone started to sale, while reviews has not been kind to it, the phone does brings a host of new technologies that will influence user expectations and experience as a whole, not only for Amazon Fire Phone users. Specifically (in our point of view), one of the technologies that are…

History of the renewed Apple-IBM vows

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Last week Apple-IBM break ended in a new reunion, promising to renew their vows on this new stage of their relationship. Yes, this relationship is not new, is an old love-hate adventure the two of them need in order to keep them in business they neither attack correctly. Apple on the corporate side, IBM on…

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Why Google+ hasn’t taken off?

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As you may know, Google+ has not been the success most people expected. For sure, we don’t know what Google was expecting out of it, given their philosophy. However we know that the company has made a considerable effort trying to put it on front of our faces each time we use one of Google…

bliYAR, the newest player in the AR world

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The internet is full of gossip and rumours. That being said, sometimes the source of those rumours are quite credible. In this case, this article is mentioning that Layar is being bought by blipAR. We think this is true. Why is do we think so? Well, around two years ago we saw that Layar changed…