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There is a war the device manufacturers are waging against the carriers. A scary one for the mobile operators, in particular because they ar...

I have read quite a lot of comments on the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. Most have focused the analysis on MySQL, since it is actually a coo...

You keep working and working. You keep signing customers. You keep working and working. You get them live. After they go live, their user ba...

The only interesting news of CTIA was Skype on the iPhone (and soon on the BlackBerry). The floor was full of people playing around with it ...

I know, I know, I promised I would not write about open source licenses anymore. The debate is over: AGPL is the license to use, let's m...

I just came back from CTIA in Vegas, biggest US show for wireless. I was sick, but I dragged my body around for two days. I believe it was w...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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