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Saturday, January 30, 2010

iPad scorecard and some thoughts

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The iPad is finally out. If I look at my predictions of six months ago, I think I scored pretty high. I should start investing in the stock ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

My final prediction on the Apple slate

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In August, I wrote a post with some predictions on the Apple slate or tablet. Now that it is finally about to be unveiled (on Wednesday), I...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chumby and the Internet of Things

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While everyone is talking about cloud computing (including me, because mobile cloud services is going to be one of the main topic of 2010), ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

No, Google will not subsidize the Nexus One (for now)

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I have read lots of different comments on the Nexus One. As you might expect, I have my opinions on it... I saw the phone for the first time...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Laughing with European carriers

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I spent some time in Europe around Christmas, joining our team in Pavia and visiting family. With the need of being always connected (my Bla...
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 ...
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