Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The Economist.com debate of this week was about Governments making things worse by intervening to regulate business and financial risk. I am surprised by the result of the debate, with "interventionist" winning by a slight difference.
In my view, we have not discoverd yet any method better than Free-Market to regulate markets ...
Posted in Media & New Economy | No Comments »
Friday, March 28th, 2008
In a previous post, back in January, Google already advised that the traffic to Google from iPhones surpassed any other smartphone, even if iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones. Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%.
M:Metrics confirms those findings based on a report of iPhone user ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Internet | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
TechCrunch post today about WiMAX, Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix, clearly misses the point. Their two conclusion items are misconceived, not to say wrong:
1. TechCrunch says: "WiMax is more an alternative to fixed broadband Internet access than it is to mobile phone service"
TechCrunch seems to ignore that WiMAX Rev-d brings mobility and ...
Posted in TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
By surprise, I found a Safari icon on my desktop after updating iTunes. My first reaction is "What! how can Apple use this malware-like tricks to push Safari?" So it is no surprise the complaints of Firefox boss, and the general condemn from blogs: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, The Open Road
Once the initial ...
Posted in Internet | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
SpinVox, founded in 2003, is a pioneer in delivering speech-to-text applications. SpinVox claims it has agreements with twelve telcos, to provide a system to translate voice mail messages into SMS or emails. These days SpinVox has been in the news because it just secured $100 Million financing from Goldman Sachs, ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One out of two new Pay-TV users in Spain sign up with Telefonica's IPTV service, Imagenio. Orange IPTV Service is the second one attracting new users with a 21% share in 2007. The table below is based on data from Spanish business newspaper, Expansion.
If we classify by technology, the table ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Spain, Telecom | No Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Following the previous post about the use of mobile by children, in the clip below distributed by Google you can see good advice on how to educate the kids on a safe use of Internet. No doubt that Internet and Mobile is giving to the new generations access to huge ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
In 2006 Imaginarium and Telefonica Moviles launched the MO1, a mobile handset designed for 6 year-old children. It sold at 59 Euros, with a prepaid account. Its features include: two blue buttons for direct call to Mom or Dad, white-list for allowed SMS destinations set-up by parents, hands-free and an emergency locator.
What ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Internet | No Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
No doubt email is an extremely useful tool for communication. It has replaced fax and snail mail in enterprises and it is widely used ...and abused. Email has made organizations flatter. Any employee can reach anyone in the organization, including the top , with a simple email. Adding people to distribution ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, TOP Popular Posts | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
I just read the New York Times article on blogs, So you want to be a blogging star?, with some advice for bloggers. Paul Boutin's main bullets are:
- Don't expect to get rich
- Write about your passions
- Fit blogging into holes in your schedule
- Just post it
- Keep the rhythm
- Join the ...
Posted in General | 1 Comment »
