Cuba USA
Cubans can't use their smartphones as high-speed Internet access devices, but they are using them as small computers -- accessing local databases, running office-like apps, editing photos, etc.
Yoani Sánchez has compliled a list ot the ten most popular Android apps in Cuba.
In a couple of years, we may all be docking our smartphones and using them as desktop computers when we are at home or work. Necessity is the mother of invention -- might we use Cuban apps when that time comes? What sort of apps will be be able to run on a fast 64-bit "phone" with 8GB or more memory?
- Trying To Clarify The Latest U. S. Opening To Cuba -- And Failing
One way to get clarification is to offer some Cuban software for sale and see what happens -- in the U. S. and in Cuba. Last September, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) eased restrictions on trade with Cuba. Restrictions were reduced in many...
- Cuban Apps In Google's (or Anyone Else's) Online Store?
A Google delegation, led by Scott Carpenter, Deputy Director of Google Ideas, and Brett Perlmutter, who had accompanied Eric Schmidt on his Cuban visit earlier this year, is in Cuba. They have visited two important technical universities and some of the...
- What Are Cubans Doing With Their Smart Phones?
Necessity is the mother of invention., proverb, unknown Small Is Beautiful, E. F. Schumacher, 1973. When personal computers became availaible, people began developing low-cost medical diagnosis equipment like this PC-based endoscope, which replaced a...
- Windows Xp Lives On In Cuba
Isbel Diaz Torres reports that, in spite of Microsoft stopping support last week, Windows XP "refuses to go" in Cuba. Evidently, XP remains the most common operating system in Cuba. Torres notes that Windows 7 and 8 have been slow to catch on because...
- Yoani Online Near Playa Siboney -- Slow And Filtered, But A Start
Yoani Sánchez has written a post on her visit to Siboney, the city where the ALBA-1 undersea cable lands. Siboney was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, destroying property, causing environmental damage and reducing toursim. Sánchez suggests that improved...
Cuba USA
Yoani Sánchez lists the ten most popular Android apps in Cuba
Cubans can't use their smartphones as high-speed Internet access devices, but they are using them as small computers -- accessing local databases, running office-like apps, editing photos, etc.
Yoani Sánchez has compliled a list ot the ten most popular Android apps in Cuba.
In a couple of years, we may all be docking our smartphones and using them as desktop computers when we are at home or work. Necessity is the mother of invention -- might we use Cuban apps when that time comes? What sort of apps will be be able to run on a fast 64-bit "phone" with 8GB or more memory?
- Trying To Clarify The Latest U. S. Opening To Cuba -- And Failing
One way to get clarification is to offer some Cuban software for sale and see what happens -- in the U. S. and in Cuba. Last September, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) eased restrictions on trade with Cuba. Restrictions were reduced in many...
- Cuban Apps In Google's (or Anyone Else's) Online Store?
A Google delegation, led by Scott Carpenter, Deputy Director of Google Ideas, and Brett Perlmutter, who had accompanied Eric Schmidt on his Cuban visit earlier this year, is in Cuba. They have visited two important technical universities and some of the...
- What Are Cubans Doing With Their Smart Phones?
Necessity is the mother of invention., proverb, unknown Small Is Beautiful, E. F. Schumacher, 1973. When personal computers became availaible, people began developing low-cost medical diagnosis equipment like this PC-based endoscope, which replaced a...
- Windows Xp Lives On In Cuba
Isbel Diaz Torres reports that, in spite of Microsoft stopping support last week, Windows XP "refuses to go" in Cuba. Evidently, XP remains the most common operating system in Cuba. Torres notes that Windows 7 and 8 have been slow to catch on because...
- Yoani Online Near Playa Siboney -- Slow And Filtered, But A Start
Yoani Sánchez has written a post on her visit to Siboney, the city where the ALBA-1 undersea cable lands. Siboney was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, destroying property, causing environmental damage and reducing toursim. Sánchez suggests that improved...