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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Zune is the future of mobility

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You are the largest software company in the world. You have built a device that nobody is buying. You feel the next big thing will be in the...
Monday, November 24, 2008

iPhone 2.2 and the Google envy

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I updated my iPhone to 2.2 during the weekend (still a laborious task, if you want to keep it unlocked and jailbroken, but worth the effort)...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Sorry, the Storm is no iPhone

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I had very high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm. I had the opportunity to play with one this morning, thanks to one of our great employees (a...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

AOL is live with open source sync!

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We made the announcement of AOL choosing Funambol a few months ago. After a friends and family test, they are now out officially in beta. F...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Is RIM trying too hard to be a consumer company?

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I wrote before about RIM trying to be a consumer company, how hard it is and how risky it might be for them. Exactly like Nokia trying to b...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

An Italian software story

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I know the blog is about mobile and open source, but I bumped into this story of an Italian developer (on the New York Times...) and I could...
Monday, November 17, 2008

It IS a garage door opener!

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Nice to be right, once in a while. I received many comments on my first post about the G1 , when I claimed it was a garage door opener (actu...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Change we can't?

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There is an article on The New York Times that talks about our new President-elect Barack Obama and his addiction to mobile email. He is th...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Android for carriers

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The conventional wisdom is that with Android you get Google. Therefore, if you are a mobile operator and you are looking at Android, you mus...
Friday, November 07, 2008

The source code matters more in a downturn

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Today I was in a meeting with a future customer (hey, you have to be optimistic on a Friday night, stuck in an airport ;-) and we talked abo...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The iPhone with a keyboard

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If there is one feature (or lack thereof) that people talk about is a keyboard for the iPhone. When the iPhone was announced, everyone said ...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Funambol Developer Conference

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After a lot of requests, we gave up and organized the first ever Funambol Developer Conference (or FunCon ;-) It will happen on November 25...
Friday, October 31, 2008

When Android beats the iPhone

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Today I discovered two reasons why Android might beat the iPhone, eventually. One, it is open source (ok, I am kidding, I did know that befo...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Time to be aggressive, if you can

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The state of the economy is scaring everyone, rightly so. I do not think it is going to get better soon, actually I feel it is going to get ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Motorola focusing on Android: why it is big news

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Today, the Wall Street Journal pretty much reported that Motorola will cut any other operating system to focus on Android. It was the co-CEO...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Funambol on the Android Market (and the G1)

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I spent some quality time last week with Carlo Codega, the developer in our community who built the Android client. He is in Italy and I hav...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Because open source people like a good debate...

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There is a discussion going on in one of our forums. The topic is AGPLv3. For those that do not remember what AGPLv3 is (shame on you! I ha...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The G in G1 stands for Garage

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My fearless office manager circled around her local T-Mobile store last night. First at midnight (no lines), then at 3 am (no lines), then f...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Lion Sniper (roarrr ;-)

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Today we announced a sequel to our two very successful sniper programs: the Lion Sniper. The program focuses on translating Funambol softwar...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Open Source in Mobile Challenges

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Today I bumped into an interesting opinion piece called " Open Source in Mobile Phones: Challenges for Software Vendors " by Adam ...
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