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Yesterday, I was invited to give a talk at OSBC 2012, called "The Future of Mobile Open Source". The Open Source Business Conferen...

I have been talking about (and doing) personal cloud for years now. Ten years ago I wrote the first line of code of what became Funambol (th...

If you do not live in mobile, you probably have never heard about the word "onboarding". Too bad, because it is the most important...

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 1999, one thing really hit me: my grandma in Italy had a cellphone then, and in my soon-to-IPO tech start...

Among the somewhat interesting things I saw at CES, the Samsung Note topped the list. Mostly, because Samsung made a big deal out of it: t...

I am on the plane back to the Bay Area from CES. Las Vegas is always a cool place, even if you have a lingering jet-lag. Actually, in that c...

Hey, this should be a day to celebrate for me. I wrote a post 18 months ago titled " Why HP should open source WebOS " and it fina...

I know we all love Apple. I know you do not see many Androids in the hands of pundits in Silicon Valley. I know you like to think different....

I have been carefully listening to the feedback on iCloud in the last few days, and I have to say it is underwhelming. I keep hearing people...

I admit it: I was wrong. A few days ago I wrote: First of all, there will be an iPhone 5. I know some of you are thinking "doh"...

As you might know, I grew up in a mental institution. Yep, it explains a lot of things. Anyway, my parents were both shrinks and it was conv...

UPDATE with scorecard RIGHT faster, better screen, better camera (that was easy) no teardrop design (many were betting on it, I got th...

When I started this blog what seems a gazillion years ago, I had a feeling that open source would become a dominant force in mobile. I was a...

I am sure you know about Facebook Timeline and the idea behind it: the history of your entire life in Facebook will be exposed. A great way ...

I have played with Timeline for a few hours and I have to admit: it is great. You can see all the posts you made (they call them "stori...

I have always perceived Amazon as a threat for Apple. After all, they have a mobile device which is kind of a tablet (Kindle) and a bunch of...

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

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...

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...