Monthly Archives: September 2008

Guy Kawasaki on Venture Capital

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Highly recommended videos for anyone planning to ask funding from venture capital. Guy Kawasaki is one of the star entrepreneurs and venture capitalists of Silicon Valley, and if you listen to his speech you will understand why. I extract from … Continue reading →

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Converging into Clouds

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Online players, such as Google and Amazon cope all bets to reign over the Clouds, benefiting from their global reach and huge experience on web scalability. Others foresee IBM -talking about utility computing for decades- or HP, after acquiring EDS, … Continue reading →

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Searching for the Mobile Killer App

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple App Store and Android App Market are bringing more spotlight than ever to the applications for mobile handsets. Though a vast number of applications already exist for Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, developers are working hard to write the … Continue reading →

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Google Inspires Engineers to Change the World

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google is re-investing the revenues they get from ads on projects to improve our world. Following google.org initiatives (RE<C, RechargeIT and others) Google is now calling for ideas from outside to make them happen in Project 10 to the 100. Googlers … Continue reading →

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Is the G1 Googly?

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Yesterday was a great day for America as T-Mobile launched the awaited first Android phone. Plenty of coverage for the announcement in NYC, but is the G1 up to the expectations? On the good side: the anticipated powerful processor with … Continue reading →

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Telecom at the Speed of Moore’s Law

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While the IT industry has Moore’s law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins. Microprocessors, … Continue reading →

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What could make SlotMusic Succeed?

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be  encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on … Continue reading →

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Why is Google building a Browser?

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The clip from Google answers the question in its first part. “To take the Web to the next level”. Web browsers were designed for web pages much simpler than the web interactive applications we enjoy today, such as Gmail, Google … Continue reading →

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The Internet of Things

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless technology that enables communication between devices over very short distances (less than 10 cm). The technology has been available for a while in the form of contactless (or proximity) cards that are mainly … Continue reading →

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Who is the new Smartphone King?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Gartner published a few days ago their assessment of the Smartphone market in Q2 2008. These are the highlights by handset maker: Smartphone market grew 15.7% compared to last year. Nokia remains the number one vendor, but it is losing … Continue reading →

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