Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
If Internet is a great tool for entrepreneurs to test business ideas, YouTube is becoming the natural place to disclose inventions and test their relevance.
Leslie Berlin, a Silicon Valley historian, writes If no one sees, it is it an invention? for NY Times. Leslie explains that inventors have found in ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Found via TechCrunch, Google keeps producing great stuff, and "organizing World's information" for us. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod Touch) puts literally the entire blue planet on your handset. Enriched by links to Panoramio and Wikipedia, and fully using the iPhone user experience, these apps will soon make GPS ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, just landed in Spain to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize, the Spanish version of the Nobel Prize. In his dialog with the press, Larry said that, working in Search, Google aims to be more and more intelligent, know more and more, gather more information ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
While Nokia posted a 30.5% drop in earnings in the quarter ending on 30 September, Steve Jobs proudly announced to analysts that 6.9 million 3G iPhone units were sold in the same quarter, outselling even RIM's Blackberry 6.1 million units.
While Nokia blames price cutting for their profit decline, Apple says ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote it in many of their marketing best-sellers: "In the long run, every market becomes a two horse race". Jack Welch, legend ex-CEO of GE, made popular his rule of closing every business unit where GE was not number one or number two.
Mobile handsets market ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence:
Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users now feel comfortable watching videos on the PC. First it was ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Tim O'Reilly published yesterday a great post on the current financial crisis. His thoughts are inspiring and an excellent guide on where to focus in times of trouble.
Here is a summary of his main points, most of which are part of an email O'Reilly sent to his employees:
Need for robust ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
A few days ago, Sheraton announced the results of a survey they commissioned on the work habits of today's professionals. Some of the findings:
[...] the vast majority of people (84%) say they check their PDA's just before going to bed and as soon as they wake up, 85% say they sneak ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Mobile Mondays dedicated its latest event in Madrid to Mobile Internet Platforms, where my good friend Alex Romero from Yahoo! presented their vision of Mobile Internet.
Mobile Internet is finally coming. Unlimited data plans and high speeds (HSDPA, EVDO) are finally enabling it. Although most 3G data traffic is still associated ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The video shows a keynote of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil in February 2005. Despite being more than three years old, his insights remain as valid as ever.
Some of the points Mr. Kurzweil makes:
Most new inventions fail only because of wrong timing. Not all enabling factors will be in place ...
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