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Frederic Lardinois

Frederic Lardinois is the man behind Silicon Filter, a site that focuses on consumer technology related to the internet. Lardinois writes about Web apps, mobile apps and devices, as well as Web-connected TVs, cars and similar technologies.Prior to founding Silicon Filter, Lardinois worked for the highly acclaimed tech blog, Read Write Web, where he wrote over 1 500 articles.

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• Mozilla shows off HTML 5, other new tech with MMORPG

  Mozilla, in cooperation with French developer Little Workshop, launched a new MMORPG called BrowserQuest today to demonstrate what developers can do with HTML5, WebSocket, Canvas and other advanced web technologies, including Node.js. The game, which is actually quite fun in its own right, should work with virtually every modern desktop browser (except for Internet Explorer), as well as Safari on iOS and Firefox on Android. The mobile version is, in Mozilla's words, "more experimental," but should be seen as "an ...

• Ford to open new Silicon Valley research centre by mid-year

  Car manufacturers are slowly but surely morphing into technology companies and it's not just upstart manufacturers like Tesla who are trying to piggyback on Silicon Valley's deep pool of engineering and academic talent.General Motors, for example, already has offices in Palo Alto and today, Ford announced that it has also chosen Palo Alto for its new Silicon Valley lab.The company already has research labs in Dearborn, MI; Aachen, Germany; Nanjing, China and Tel Aviv, Israel. The lab will ...

• What Firefox has planned for 2012

  Last year, Mozilla managed to get Firefox back on track. While the long delay of Firefox 4 gave competitors like the up-and-coming Google Chrome a chance to gain quite a bit of market share. Mozilla adapted to the changing environment and switched to a Chrome-like rapid-release schedule that is focused on releasing a new version every six weeks.Given these short release cycles, it's good to keep the larger picture in view sometimes and, thankfully, Mozilla today provided us with ...

• TED launches initiative to bring ‘lessons worth sharing’ to high schoolers

  TED, the organisation behind the popular conference series with the same name, launched a new initiative that aims to bring TED-like video content to high school students. The idea here is to repackage existing TED talks as well as videotaped lessons from teachers around the world with additional graphics and effects to make them more palatable to a younger audience.As TED's curator Chris Anderson notes, the organisation doesn't claim that TED-Ed, as this new program is called, will "transform ...

• Path 2.1: Now with smarter camera, support for Nike+

  Up-and-coming private social network Path had a couple of rough days last month because it uploaded its users' address books to its servers without their explicit permission. Today, however, the company is focusing squarely on its product again with the release of version 2.1 of its iOS app. This isn't a major overhaul of the service, as the version number already indicates, but the company made some pretty significant updates to the product that its users will surely appreciate.One really ...

• C’mon Google, give us the real Google+ numbers already

  The Wall Street Journal recently reported that things aren't looking so great for Google+. According to data from comScore, Google+'s users spend just about three minutes per month on the site.On Facebook, that number is closer to six or seven hours per month. Google itself, however, has never provided anybody with any useful data about the service and -- at worst -- is just using deliberately misleading information to provide the press with big numbers that look good but are ...

• Apple unveils new iPad with retina display, new Apple TV

  Apple's CEO Tim Cook took the stage in San Francisco today to announce the next version of the iPad, as well as iOS 5.1 and a new AppleTV. The new iPad features a retina display and a faster processor. The wireless version will now support 4G LTE networks for significantly faster download speeds while on the go. The design of the new iPad looks virtually identical to the iPad2.The new AppleTV now supports 1080p playback and also comes with an ...

• App review: PocketCloud

  Wyse, a company better known for offering remote desktop solutions to enterprise companies than for its consumer offerings, is now bringing PocketCloud Explore, its app for easily managing files across multiple desktops, operating systems and mobile devices, to the iPhone (it was already available on Android). I got a demo of the app at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week and it's quite an impressive service that indeed works as seamlessly as the company promises.What makes Wyse's solution ...

• Eric Schmidt offers his vision of the future

  Google's chairman Eric Schmidt took the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to talk about the role of technology in the "world we live in today" and how it will shape the societies of the future. Schmidt, for example, noted that the number of people who use smartphones is still very small, but "think how amazing the web is today with just 2-billion people" and what will happen when another 5-billion get online.The future according to Eric SchmidtIn ...

• Ford: Car and telecoms industries must cooperate to avoid ‘global gridlock’

  Bill Ford Jr., the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company used his keynote address at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last night to lobby for a stronger cooperation between mobile tech companies and the auto industry to avoid "global gridlock." Given numerous predictions that we will see global car ownership go from about one-billion to four-billion by 2050, Ford believes that unless these cars get smarter and become an integrated part of a larger and Internet-connected transportation system, ...

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