Archive for November, 2008
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
These are the top hottest five topics that we have covered over the past twelve months with the biggest potential for a disruption in both the Communications Industry and in our habits.
1) Mobile Internet, the Internet way.
The iPhone and Google's Android have revolutionized Mobile Internet in the handset, making web ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
One year has passed since we started this blog with Steve Job's famous commencement address.
Less than one month later a post on LinuxMCE made it to the front page of Digg, and got 25.000 visits in one day!
Since then, we have spoken about iPhone, Android, Mobile Internet, Mobile TV, IPTV, Internet ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Any ambitious innovation must target to fix the problems of tomorrow considering the technology environment of tomorrow. Fail to consider the future environment and you might be pouring R&D dollars into the bin.
Innovations that did bet on tomorrow:
Remember when Gmail launched in 2004? It offered 1GB of storage when other ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Speech Recognition technology is available for many years, still its impact has been quite low so far. Windows has speech recognition features that nobody use, speech-to-dial is available in mobile phones since years. Few people configure it, and less of them ever use it. Only Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Financial Crashes and Bubbles are opposite expressions of how absurd and irrational markets can behave. Markets over-react irrationally, driven by the irrational sentiments of fear and greed. Panic drives the Crashes and over-enthusiasm drives the Bubbles.
As Martin Varsavsky said to Tim O-Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo:
“Markets are bipolar, and ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Tim O'Reilly interviews Martin Varsavsky during the Web 2.0 Expo Europe last month. Martin is a serial entrepreneur that successfully created Jazztel and Ya.com to compete with Telefonica in fixed telephony and Internet access in Spain in the late 90s. He later IPO'ed Jazztel and sold Ya.com to Deutche Telekom ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Spain | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Yesterday Google put an end to the advertisement agreement with Yahoo! that both companies announced in April. Google blamed the government regulators and some advertisers who had concerns on the deal. And who wouldn't? The two major players in online advertisement were reaching an agreement to cooperate on search advertisement. ...
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