Monthly Archives: November 2008

Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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One Year of Blogging

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Innovate for Tomorrow or Die

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Will Speech-Reco Cross the Chasm with Google?

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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What Do Crashes and Bubbles Have in Common?

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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Martin Varsavsky on Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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. … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be Evil?

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

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 … Continue reading →

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