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It’s all about Contacts: who do you know?
When it comes to doing anything, finding a job, an apartment or a used car, what counts most is who you know. In the old times it was the size of your rolodex, now it’s the size of you digital … Continue reading
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Tagged addressbook, funambol, innovation, mozilla, social network, sync
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Six comments worth reading about iPad
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 … Continue reading
Il miraggio del brevetto comunitario
Stamattina ho trovato nella mia casella di posta un messaggio da una persona che cerca informazioni riguardo la brevettabilità delle idee. La domanda in particolare mi ha colpito, come sempre: se ho ben capito le idee non sono brevettabili e … Continue reading
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Tagged brevetti, innovation, innovazione, patents, petition, software patents, swpat
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Non-profit groups are slow to change
A very good read and something I have seen happen many times with the non-profit groups I worked with: If your non-profit isn’t acting with as much energy and guts as it takes to get funded in Silicon Valley or … Continue reading
How Apple will dramatically increase revenues
My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year: It’s not (only) the cool design or the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, disruption, innovation, marketing, revenues, strategy
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Goodbye uncle Bill
As Bill Gates finally bows out of Microsoft to pursue his charity interests, BBC looks at some of the hits and misses of the software company he founded. BBC NEWS | Technology | The hits and misses of Microsoft Uncle … Continue reading
The next step in desktop innovation
A better filesystem and a better user interface. Haiku filesystem goes in the right direction (read the interview to Kevin Musick, BeServed author). I happily read als that the Sugar UI will be developed also for other hardware that is … Continue reading
Ozzie talks about FLOSS and FLOSS advocates talk back
Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’ As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’ I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a … Continue reading
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Tagged antitrust, business, floss, free software, innovation, interoperability, microsoft, ozzie, strategy
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Microsoft is changing focus, will it change attitude?
I’ve placed a bet that Microsoft will change radically its business model when Gates will leave his chair to Ray Ozzie, so I was trying to get a clue from Ozzie’s speech at the MIX last week. I wasn’t too … Continue reading
An Italian startup wants to go beyond desktop metaphor
I think that a document is anything that I save on my computer, anything that ‘documents’ my actions and my life. So bookmarks, images and text files, maps, email messages, calendar entries are all documents to me.’ Saving these digital … Continue reading