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After revisiting the Funambol Code Sniper, I thought it was time to adjust also the Phone Sniper program. Funambol Phone Sniper is the easiest way to contribute to the community: participants help by testing the compatibility of their device with Funambol sync and push services. It’s very easy to participate: you need a phone included [...]

Tags: community, funambol, phone, program, sniper

All my friends know how much I love Toyota’s production system because it’s simple and elegant, does extraordinary things with minimum effort, focuses on people, condemns waste, pushes to perfection knowing you can’t reach it. It’s like poetry
If only journalists and reporters learned how to do a proper root-cause analysis the recent Toyota [...]

Tags: hbr, toyota

I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric:
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has [...]

Tags: cloud, cloud computing, free software, freedom, funambol, mobile cloud, moglen, privacy, push, sflc, sync

This is good news for mobile free software (or open source, as you wish to call it): Maemo and Moblin joined forces today.  I had lots of expectations for Maemo, but so far Nokia hasn’t pushed it enough. This merge of the two project may give it a new life.  Now the issue is [...]

Tags: intel, maemo, meego, mobile, moblin, motorola, Nokia

I honestly cannot understand the fear of forks that is spreading within the Symbian community. Since Symbian Foundation released the full source code of the operating system under the Eclipse Public License I’ve read few comments like the following:
I sincerely hope that we don’t see various manufacturers forking the code, and thus creating a veritable [...]

Tags: business, eclipse, epl, free software, risk, symbian

Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself.
I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin.
Exactly: choosing a free license is a moral choice but that alone won’t secure neither commercial success nor any [...]

Tags: business, community, free software, licensing, open source

Here we have an Italian Minister granting a seal of approval to a McDonald’s burger. Clearly a marketing stunt, but who’s taking the most out of it? The Italian Minister  claims that this initiative helps promote the Made in Italy brand and products. Critics say that McDonald’s brand is still the epiphany of junk food [...]

Saturday morning is the best day to read more in depth analysis. I collected six articles that amused me, largely from the HBR blogs (one of the best source of food for thoughts, IMHO).
If you, like me, are fascinated by innovation and by the physicality of objects I suggest you to read Apple iPad’s Product [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, hbr, innovation, ipad, kindle

Torna Mucchetti, il giornalista castiga-google del Corriere della Sera, che mischia notizie con un articolo che parte dalla relazione del AGCom per tornare a chiedere  di castigare Google. Il problema sarebbe che Google fattura per pubblicità più delle concessionarie degli editori più forti ma questa quota di raccolta pubblicitaria non sarebbe inclusa nel calcolo della [...]

Tags: censura, corriere, giornalismo, google, monopolio, mucchetti, net neutrality, politica, rcs

I’m following the iPad presentation but until I saw this I wasn’t impressed

This makes the iPad a totally new device and suddenly makes OS X and GNU/Linux and Windows well … obsolete. To me this looks like Apple finally pushing away to the oh-so-old desktop metaphor, the mouse, the windows, the folders and all that.
Welcome [...]