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Saturday, December 22, 2007

A video

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A few months back, I was interviewed by Nicola Mattina in Rome. Although it looks like I am sleeping between questions (the jet-lag, I just ...

Funambol and Android

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There is a question that people keep asking me: how do you position Funambol and Android? I always try to give my best answer ("Android...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2007 - the year of data plans

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I am starting to see the end of 2007 and it is time for some looking back. In my opinion, 2007 has been the most amazing year in mobile hist...
Friday, December 07, 2007

The open source police coming to mobile

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It was just a matter of time. Today the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed a copyright lawsuit against Verizon , alleging they infring...
Monday, December 03, 2007

The mobile 2.0 revolution starts in Germany

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1&1, the largest web hoster in the world, went live with a mobile email solution last week in Germany. They are using Funambol, integrat...
Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Mind the bridge (if you are Italian)

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There is another initiative coming from Google these days. This one includes Italians. Actually, it is only meant for Italians (Google-Ital...

What is missing in the Android SDK

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While recovering from the turkey, I spent some more time browsing the Google Android SDK. I focused more on what I felt was missing, rather ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

AGPL and the future of open source

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Fifteen months ago , I decided it was time for someone to take charge and close the ASP loophole of GPL. A plague that I thought would event...

Vodafone screaming OPEN

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If you are like me and you have been pushing open in mobile, you might feel we are now living a dream. Since the iPhone came out, a sequence...
Monday, November 19, 2007

The Funambol Italian Challenge to Android

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I have been following the debate around the ban of Italians by Google , preventing anyone in the BelPaese to participate in the Google Andro...

Funambol 6.5 is out

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Originally codenamed Elba (our PM is going with the islands of Italy...) and now Funambol 6.5 beta, our newest release is out. The enhanceme...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

One of the top startups on the planet...

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Good news keep pouring in for Funambol. Today we made the finalist list of the Red Herring 100 Global. Somehow, we beat 1,600 startups that ...
Monday, November 12, 2007

What's wrong with Italian developers?

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From the Android Developer Challenge FAQ : The Android Developer Challenge is open to individuals, teams of individuals, and business entiti...

Google bribing developers??

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As you might have noticed, Google released the Android SDK today. To make it interesting, they added $10M (that's ten millions) for deve...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Qualcomm in the Open Handset Alliance??

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When you look at the companies involved in the Google's led Open Handset Alliance , it is easy to spot the ones that are missing... Noki...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Welcoming Google to Mobile Open Source

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A few years back, when I filed for the "mobile open source" trademark, I thought I was onto something. In my view, mobile was goin...

The rebirth of Plaxo

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If you are like me, this weekend you have received ten invitations to connect with friends via Plaxo Pulse. Like a few months ago we had the...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

Eye-fi and the power of automagic sync

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A friend who is on the advisory board of Eye-Fi wrote me yesterday that they launched the Eye-Fi Card, and it is currently in the top 20 be...
Monday, October 29, 2007

The Skype phone and the beginning of the end

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3 and Skype announced the Skype phone (sPhone?) today. It is a pretty basic and cheap phone (roughly $100) with a button to open the Skype a...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Introducing the Funambol iPhone plug-in

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The day I bought my iPhone, I was totally surprised to find that the only way to synchronize address book and calendar was over iTunes. I co...
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