Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008
Telecom
Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among others, and the spectrum efficiency is superior to 3G. Incumbent wireless operators ...
Posted in Digital Home, General, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 4 Comments »
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Forbes report that Apple is filing some patents that will enable innovative applications, such as ordering a Starbucks coffee from a mobile phone to bypass the customer line. Some months ago, Apple and Starbucks launched a Wifi Music Store, so that iPhone users could press a button when at Starbucks and download a song ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | No Comments »
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Let's think about it...
Google enters the Mobile Phones market by building an open Operating System (OS) for mobiles, built around Linux (Kernel 2.6).
Android main competitors, apart from Nokia, are iPhone and Windows Mobile. Both Apple and Microsoft come from computer OS to smartphones OS. What is a smartphone but a down-scale computer? Following Convergence trend ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, TOP Popular Posts | 5 Comments »
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
If you had to choose your favorite three books for each of nine MBA topics - Marketing High Tech, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Management, General Marketing, Communications and Selling -, which ones would you pick?
Here is my selection for a basic business library.
Your comments and your favorites are welcome.
Posted in Biz Books | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
The Music Industry can not keep fighting to preserve their status quo. Internet, mp3 and iPods have changed the way we ingest music. DVD/CDs are doomed to disappear. The music and film industry will need to adapt to survive.
A wonderful extensive article has been published by Wired: David Byrne's Survival Strategies ...
Posted in Media & New Economy | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
When I started this blog one month ago, I could not imagine that 21.000 people would be reading it by year end, as it happened on 22 December. Thank you all for the support and for all your comments, specially on the Linux MCE debate.
Merry Christmas and enjoy your holidays!
Jose Miguel
Posted in General | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
An eye-opening article in New York Times about the generational divide on copyright morality, by David Pogue.
Compared to a few years back, the new generation of teenagers do not find any moral concern about copying and sharing copyrighted material, as the experiment from David Pogue shows.
I wondered whether my 8 months ...
Posted in Media & New Economy | 3 Comments »
Friday, December 21st, 2007
One month ago, the much expected G-Phone was presented as Android, a SW platform for mobile phones, backed by the Open Handset Alliance. The Alliance includes vendors as Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC, as well as Operators and software partners.
Although the first commercial handsets will only be available by end 2008, and ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
2007 has been the year for Internet TV. And YouTube / Google have played the main part in bringing it into the mainstream. But they are not alone: Joost, Apple TV, Amazon Unbox and many others, including Microsoft, fight for a piece of a market in constant evolution.
Read Write ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Thanks to Internet, entrepreneurship is getting much easier and less risky than ever.
In the past, to create a start-up, the first steps were to put the team together, gather an initial investment, work on a prototype, test the market, and sell your vision to seed or venture capital, to fund your growth.
Now, more entrepreneurs ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Media & New Economy, TOP Popular Posts | 3 Comments »
