Archive for September, 2008

A Different Approach to Fund Raising

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 ...

Telcos in a Clouds & Pipes World

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 ...

The Future of Telecom: Clouds and Pipes

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 ...

Eee PC: Linux or XP?

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 ...

Using Chrome

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 ...

Is Chrome Enough to Kill Windows?

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 ...

Symbian Vs iPhone: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

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 ...

Google Chrome: Get Equipped for Clouds

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 ...