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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Commercial Open Source is very healthy

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Last week was Commercial Open Source week for me. I met almost everyone in the industry, since I spoke at OSBC in San Francisco and I attend...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The bar is way too low at RIM

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As you might know, RIM has two different models to push email (and sync). One is called BES, or BlackBerry Enterprise Server. It is installe...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Silicon Valley is the center of mobile

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Today I was reading the latest newsletter by Gerry Purdy, the Chief Analyst for mobile at Frost&Sullivan. It is titled "Silicon Val...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Apple: openness can't be faked

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Yesterday, I spent a few good hours trying to download the documentation of the iPhone 3.0 SDK from the Apple Developer Connection site. The...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Apple catching up

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The tile of my previous post, with the predictions for the iPhone 3.0 OS presentation was "Apple raising the bar". After the prese...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Apple raising the bar

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The guys at Apple are setting things up nicely: first, they had Palm go out with the Pre announcement and all the noise the WebOS generated....
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Google is scary

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I have been negative on Google in the past, due to their relaxed use of open source (i.e. returning code to the community only when convenie...
Monday, March 09, 2009

The next sync: app sync

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These are very exciting times for cloud syncing technologies and products. MobileMe has started an explosion of look-alike and better-than. ...
Monday, March 02, 2009

Mobile is still strong, despite the rest

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It is hard to be optimistic on anything these days. When you look at your portfolio, read newspapers, watch TV, you are bombarded with negat...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The new MobileWe portal

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Many people showed up at our booth in Barcelona. The main feedback we received showing our new MobileWe portal was "oohhh" and ...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

A review of MWC

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I had hopes to be able to report from MWC in Barcelona, as I did in the last few years, but this year I just could not make it. Too many mee...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Funambol Fabrizio Barcelona

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So the times has come, MWC is next week. The big show of the year. Finally: I am flying out tomorrow. Things have been heating up a lot late...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Cloud syncing is hard to do

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Ouch, after the MobileMe initial meltdown for Apple (a black eye, one of the few they have), now we have a Nokia Ovi meltdown... This one w...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The other battle: app stores

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It is fascinating to watch the mobile cloud sync battle from within: Google Sync vs. Apple MobileMe vs. Microsoft My Phone vs. everyone else...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Please no phone calls on planes (pleeeaaase)

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I was about to pack to fly to Europe for Mobile World Congress (not a chance, I am going to pack an hour before check-in as usual ;-) and I ...
Monday, February 09, 2009

The day mobile cloud syncing went mainstream

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Today Google has put the stamp on the success of mobile cloud syncing. They extended their Google Sync product (which supported only BlackBe...
Friday, February 06, 2009

Microsoft SkyBox is "My Phone"?

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Man, I just wrote a post saying that - at least - Microsoft came up with an original name for their MobileMe initiative, and it turns out I ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Microsoft new mobile OS to be open source?

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I have been saying for a while that one day (probably in 2020 ;-) Windows Mobile will be open source. I do not see any other option for Micr...

Garmin and Asus: here comes the Nuvifone (finally)

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One device that I have been waiting for, with some trepidation, is the Garmin Nuvifone . A very interesting concept for a smartphone, coming...
Monday, February 02, 2009

A smartphone for everyone

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I was looking at a report today, plotting the price for a smartphone in the US. In May of last year, it was over $200. Now, after the Palm T...
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