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Monday, August 29, 2011

Samsung buying webOS? It makes sense

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There are rumors floating around about Samsung considering an acquisition of HP/Palm webOS. I am not sure if Samsung is really evaluating o...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Why webOS failed

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I have been a Palm fan since the beginning. I have owned a Palm III, a Palm V, a Treo and a Pre. The first software ever shipped by Funambol...
Monday, August 15, 2011

The end of Android as we know it

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In my last post, I claimed the race for the mobile OSs was pretty much over. The two winning were iOS and Android, and I felt there was no r...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Is there really room for a third mobile OS?

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There was a graph on the Asymco site that caught my attention today. It is shown below. Few things jumped at me: The amount of smartpho...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

iCloud is sticky, even before birth

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I was reading an interesting analysis today. It is a survey on smartphones, customer satisfaction and the like. The last part talks about i...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The best technology is invisible

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I was invited to attend the Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence today. It is a fantastic event, sort of the TED of Italy, with ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

The iPad is one step closer to be a personal device

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What seems a very long time ago (a year in mobile is 10 years in desktop life ;-) I wrote a post about the iPad as a personal device vs. a ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

SMS are going away, so are the revenues

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The amount of news out of the WWDC keynote is staggering. Apple has announced three different products, all interconnected, threatening doze...
Monday, June 06, 2011

The sweet feeling of validation

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Feel free to skip this post. I am not writing it for you, I am writing it for myself. I just want to keep a log of what happened today, beca...
Sunday, June 05, 2011

It is time to kill the file system

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I am sure you have watched the video preview of Windows 8. If you haven't, shame on you, it will turn out to be a crucial moment in the ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Panic: cell phones are killing us!!

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I have read the report from the WHO meeting about the risk of brain cancer due to use of mobile phones. The conclusion is that they have no...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Five reasons why Windows Phone could make it

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I speak with people in the industry all the time. As soon as we talk about Windows Phone, the best comment I hear is "they are dead...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Overage charges will kill the mobile revolution

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I have been in mobile long enough to have witnessed every attempt by the mobile operators to milk data revenues. SMS being the holy grail th...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

72% of iPad users do not own an iPhone

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Today I bumped into a very interesting report from ComScore on iPad users. In particular, there is one finding that jumped out at me: less ...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Is MeeGo dead or alive?

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Yesterday I received a call from a banker asking a very specific question: "is MeeGo dead or alive?". That made me think. If you...

A business model for open source (hint: it's the cloud!)

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Yesterday I found on YouTube the keynote I gave at the Open World Forum in Paris last September. I talk about what I consider THE business m...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Android not open source is suicide for Google

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Since the launch of Android, two forces have been at work: Open Source, which made Android what it is today, the fastest growing OS of all...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Did Amazon just launch the mythical GDrive?

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The race to cloud synchronization just got hotter today. Amazon has launched Amazon Cloud Drive , a space where you can put all your data. I...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Your tablet will never be a laptop

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I am on record as one of the first who said that the tablets were the future of computing for the masses. I stand by my assessment of a yea...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Google Voice is key for domination in mobile

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I have been a GrandCentral user for a long time, way before Google bought them to create Google Voice. I love the service, and it got better...
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