Category: Enterprise

  • Top colors in movie posters

    Top colors in movie posters

    It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.

  • Acer: After Gateway, why not Packard Bell?

    Acer, the Taiwanese PC company that so many people don’t know (because they tend to sell a lot of OEM computers under the name of more well-known brands) has been reaching 3rd rank in the PC makers by buying US PC maker/seller Gateway. They seem to be looking into a possible buy of Packard Bell…

  • YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads

    Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…

  • Special sleeping bag

    Special sleeping bag

    After the socks with fingers, here comes the sleeping bag with arms and legs: Selk-bag.

  • F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.

    F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.

    This is becoming weirder and weirder. I had previously spoken about Ubisoft announcing FarCry 2 to follow in the footsteps of FarCry (a sequel?) while Crytek was working on Crysis (a technical improvement and a sequel). Here, we have to speak of another video game in the First Person Shooter (FPS) category, F.E.A.R. that has…

  • Backpedalling? Linksys not dead yet

    Backpedalling? Linksys not dead yet

    Finally, Cisco people are saying that the Linksys brand would not be abandonned immediately and that it would only be done when it makes sense for the customers (if and when these changes add value to our customers’ decision making processes). Some reaction to the customers reaction?

  • Tough week on the Stock Exchange floor

    The stock exchanges have been subjected to hard winds this week, as it was expected by nearly all the expert analysts. I find it quite interesting that so many observers who are also actors on the market were able to forecast accurately the crisis but were not able to anticipate it enough to avoid it.…

  • National flag design critique

    National flag design critique

    What would happen if a designer team submitted national flags to customer countries? And listened to the ciritiques or comments? Link Via: Information Aesthetics.

  • Linksys is dead

    Linksys is dead

    John Chambers, CEO of CISCO, the company that bought Linksys in 2003, informed us that the Linksys brand will soon be abandonned in favor of a new line of routers all named CISCO. The Linksys brand had been around since 1988, it had been kept because it had a higher recognition factor in the small…