Semantix’s Blog

This is our space to share with you articles about what we do, education 2.0, new technologies,
reading resources, digital reading devices and other interesting news.

Make the most of your Dixio Desktop! We explain the latest novelties so that you don’t miss a thing.

featured nuevo Dixio EN

We would like to start this post by thanking everyone who has participated in our surveys. Your feedback has helped us to adapt Dixio Desktop to your needs, with a new look that makes it easier and more intuitive to use. What’s new in the new version of Dixio Desktop? 1. Installation: you will find [...]

Avanzo, a leader in the e-learning field, chooses Dixio as a tool for responding to queries in its courses

featured avanzo

The digital educational sector tends to use interactive and adaptative learning tools that guarantee that students will learn up to the expected level at the lowest possible cost. Avanzo and Dixio have therefore joined forces to facilitate learning by using semantic processes for responding to queries. Dixio Desktop, developed by Semantix, is a computer program [...]

Dixio wins a Nielsen award!

Dixio awarded by Nielsen

Nielsen Norman Group, one of the most world renowned agencies specializing in usability, has acknowledged Semantix with the Nielsen award for Dixio, the smart dictionary. It is thus recognized as the best designed multiplatform application of 2012, based on the principles of usability, which require applications to be easy to use and intuitive for users. [...]

Dixio exceeds 100,000 downloads on Softonic and is now number one in its software category

With more than 100,000 downloads, our intelligent dictionary is the dictionary and vocabulary software most highly valued by Softonic and its users. The portal’s experts give Dixio a score of 8.0, while its users score it at 9.3. With these figures, our tool has taken the lead in the Softonic ranking of dictionary and vocabulary [...]

Superficial or deep thought?

The shallows is the third book by Nicholas Carr, once director of the Harvard Business Review and a regular new technology theorist. In a recent interview with the El País newspaper, Carr analyses how the Internet affects our way of thinking, and warns that “our ability to control our thoughts and think autonomously is being [...]

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