Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Guy Kawasaki -entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger- writes a funny article about how entrepreneurs usually approach venture funding, compared to a new way to start up your company, what Guy calls "Plan B for Fund Raising" and others call bootstrapping.
To summarize Guy's article, he tells the typical story of a ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship | No Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
The previous post might have look pessimistic about telcos when defining the future of telecom as "Clouds and Pipes (and Toys)". In reality, it is just an analogy to describe what is already happening with "Over-The-Top" players delivering applications and services through Internet telco's infrastructure with more and more intelligent ...
Posted in Telecom | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Internet is the paradigm of next generation communications. One of the wonders of Internet is that it allows to de-couple Services/Applications from the access network. e.g. Anyone still uses the email or hosting services from your broadband access supplier? Most people prefer these Services independent from the broadband provider. One ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Jim was decided to buy a netbook. One friend recommended him the Asus Eee PC. Jim does not know much about computers, but his brother-in-law Greg is one of these geeks that knows everything about the latest toys.
Jim: Which Eee should I buy? Linux or XP?
Greg: First, among the ...
Posted in IT, TOP Popular Posts | 4 Comments »
Friday, September 5th, 2008
After a few days of use, I am delighted with the simple, clean, minimalistic user interface. Some people complain about lack of support for toolbars or not having a proper bookmarks organizer, but I love the Google concept of "forget about folders and simply search" when you need to find ...
Posted in General | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Megabytes and megabytes of commentaries after its launch are setting yet one more record on top of Chrome's top speed marks of one percent market share in one day, and fastest ever browser.
Most analysis agree that Chrome is aiming at Windows, and not to Internet Explorer. Together with Gears, Chrome's performance ...
Posted in Internet | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
TechCruch and GigaOm both commented the Symbian quarterly results. Both blogs compared Nokia's OS to iPhone and reached two opposite conclusions.
Facts by GigaOm:
Symbian shipped 19.5 Million units in Q2, 5% year-on-year growth.
iPhone shipped 0.77 Million units of its 2G model in Q2, a 166% year-on year growth, considering iPhone only sold ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Google has surprised the world with its new browser. The product introduction through a comic was a brilliant exercise of showing the superior features of their browser, most of them quite technical, in an simple, plain, easy to understand manner.
Google wants the browser to make the OS irrelevant. The intent ...
Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »