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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Always blame the dumb pipe

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I have written many times about the risk for mobile carriers to become dumb pipes. The device manufacturers are all out trying to steal the ...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Bada starts with bad

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Picking a name for a product or a company is not an easy task. When I chose Funambol, I looked for a Latin word starting with Fun, and the c...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Somebody better build a sexy Android phone for Europe soon

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I was reading an IDC statement the other day about Android in Europe: Android OS continued to grow its market share from 4.2% in 2Q09 to 5....
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

My impressions on Chrome OS

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I have been curious to check Chrome OS since I first heard of it. It is mobile open source, after all, so it fits well with my blog. But my ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Yahoo Go(ne)

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Today, I found out that Yahoo Go is gone . It is an interesting development for the Yahoo mobile platform, definitely linked to the departur...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Mobile cloud does not mean network computing

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I found an interesting comment the other day in an article : Nokia has batted back the concept by stating that mobile devices will not becom...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Why did you acquire Zapatec?

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This morning we announced the acquisition of Zapatec. I believe Dana at ZDNET summarized it best: " With Zapatec Funambol has one stack...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Capacity, capacity, capacity

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Funny how the wireless world changes fast. I spent a few days at Rutberg's Wireless Influencer this week in San Diego (awesome event, if...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

No, Google won't make a smartphone

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There are a lot of rumors today about Google making its own smartphone . I do not buy it. It does not make any business sense. I have been a...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Proving that open source can be beautiful

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It is out. We have Funambol V8 on our demo site, myFUNAMBOL . It is for everyone to play with, look at and experience (yes, it is free, and ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Microsoft will build a smartphone

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I have been thinking about Microsoft in mobile for a few days, trying to guess what I would do, if I were Ballmer. Quick look at the state o...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The world keeps diverging

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Tomorrow is the day Apple will not introduce the iPad (or so I believe). They will reshuffle the iPod lineup adding a bunch of cameras here ...
Monday, August 17, 2009

The Apple iPad will be an ebook reader

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I have been quite decent at predicting Apple's moves recently. With all this talk about the new tablet/netbook by Apple, I thought it wa...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

A world without the browser

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This morning I was contemplating the browser war, which has started again. IE vs. Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Safari. Nice fight to watch, someth...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Hard to be a dumb pipe, AT&T?

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I have been saying for a while that the carriers need to move quickly to deliver mobile cloud services (in particular on the most important ...
Friday, July 24, 2009

About open sync, the Pre and iTunes

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Oohh, this is hitting so close to home that I have to comment. I am referring to the battle between Palm and Apple around iTunes. A battle o...
Monday, July 20, 2009

In mobile... always follow fashion

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When someone in your organization asks you "are you abandoning your blog?", you realize it is time to post something... I have ma...
Monday, June 22, 2009

S is the new bar

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While traveling, I have been playing with the devices in my bag: an iPhone 3G, a BlackBerry Curve, a Palm Pre, a Palm Windows Mobile and a G...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Inside the Pre

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Last night, someone discovered a file, which includes the ROM of the Pre. This morning, there are instructions all over the web on how to ge...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

Palm Synergy is awesome

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Let me start with the end: the Palm Pre is really a great device. I have played with a lot of cool gadgets, forcing Rose many times to wait ...
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