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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

Since Mozilla Messaging launched Thunderbird 3 I started using it to see if this new version is better than GNOME Evolution, the email/calendar application I used in the past 4 years. Evolution is a decent email and calendar client and I love the integration in GNOME, but it stopped evolving and its GUI has [...]

Tags: codesniper, evolution, funambol, gnome, gui, messaging, mozilla, thunderbird, usability

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 [...]

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 [...]

I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac OS Sync app. Since I was at it I decided to test also Prezi, a [...]

Tags: apple, funambol, mac, myfunambol, os x, sync, syncevolution

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom edge, can it really be used? If anybody is still thinking that Google wants to [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, google, iphone, mobile, nexusone

The winter holidays are a provide a good opportunity to  do something useful in that downtime between celebrations. Funambol’s community programs provide three ways to have fun and earn some cash, too.
1. Participate in the Code Sniper program: it rewards the efforts of the open source community to help build the open source mobile cloud. [...]

Tags: agile, code sniper, community, funambol, incentive, l1on sniper, participation, phone sniper

I was very concerned when DG Competition announced that they needed to take more time to investigate the merger of Oracle and Sun because of MySQL. The deal for me seemed not only natural for business reasons, but also naturally neutral towards consumers.  MySQL is safe also in Oracle’s hands because the project, with so [...]

Tags: acquisition, business, deal, free software business, funambo., merger, open source, oracle, sun