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Today marked the day of the launch of the Ovi Store , the Nokia answer to the Apple AppStore. Symbian has been around for years and years, a...

I am a big Palm fan. I have always been and I will always be. Or so I hope, if they do not let me down. They did not let me down with the Pr...

There is one reason Linux has been successful as a mainstream server OS: RedHat. It is not the company behind it that made it good, it is th...

Yesterday I attended the third Venice Sessions event. It is an event promoted by Telecom Italia and held at their Future Centre in Venice. S...

In a world where mash-up is the buzzword (or was it? Web 2.0 is not that cool anymore...), you would assume content is freely available to a...

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...