(B) Journalist Lisa Katayama, from TokyoMango, based in San Francisco is telling us how the people of Japan have learned to live with earthquakes, rebuilding their lives and their cities. But […]
(B) I kindly disagree with savvy investor Jim Cramer who likes to repeat, over and over, that the Mobile Internet Tsunami is the biggest trend in Information Technology. I would rather consider […]
(T) Countries and regions with very high electricity costs and a lot of sunshine are the first adopters of solar energy. In California, the average cost over 30 years of […]
(B) I had the opportunity to attend one of the sessions of the Stanford School of Engineering speaker series on European Entrepreneurship and to listen to the flamboyant Loic Lemeur CEO of Seesmic and […]
(B) If the XX century was the one of globalization, the XXI century will have to be the one of sustainability. The first decade of this new century has been […]
(B) During the last week of November, the exuberant Jim Cramer from CNBC held a Green Investment Week. But paradoxically, investing for profits in Green does not assume investing in the emerging […]
(T) I am a strong believer that WiFi will be the most ever deployed networking technology with Ethernet. There are two reasons for that. First, is that businesses have been […]
(B) Now that every IT vendor is surfing the wave of cloud computing, and that Wall Street analysts have broadly embraced the concept, it is sometimes difficult not to be […]
(T) In my own experience, I have not seen very often some great technology being defined through a standard organization. Standards are usually a battle where players push technologies that […]
(E) ComputerWeekly.com has selected this year, A Silicon Valley Insider, among the best international technology blogs. This year’s shortlisted blogs by ComputerWeekly.com, in association with IBM, includes: • A Silicon Valley insider • TechCrunch • Engadget […]
(B) The Mac would not have been successful without VisiCalc, the iPod without iTunes and the iPhone without its Apps and the App Store. Applications are what gives life to a computer. While the […]
(T) Video is everywhere. All over the Web with YouTube. On our iPhone and Android. And, now broadcast video and the Web are merging. On mobile networks, video is the […]
(B) In the 90s, many analysts and business scholars suggested, at that time, that Apple should sell its hardware business to an Asian PC manufacturer and focus only on developing […]
(T) Each generation of cellular wireless networks has been characterized by new frequency bands e.g. radio waves, higher data rates, and new (but not-compatible!) transmission technology. The first generation of […]
(B) Someone asked me a few days ago the following question: who is the most threatening competitor to Microsoft? Without thinking, I answered Google! Wrong answer, I was told, it […]
(T) “I think that computer viruses should count as life. I think that it says something about human nature. The only form of life, we have created so far is purely […]
(B) The best companies to invest in Clean Energy are in the US and in China. But because of regulations and incentives, Germany has presently the largest installations of solar […]
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Metals or they solve a challenging problem. This week the four Field Metals winners, the equivalent of the Noble Prize […]
(E) We are now witnessing the huge risks and the enormous impacts on the Earth ecosystems of deep offshore drilling with the present BP oil spill. As openly stated by […]
(B) Europeans enjoy some of the best social programs in the world, from the highest number of paid vacation days, the shortest number of hours worked per week, early retirements, […]
(T) One of the most critical resources for life is water. Without drinking water, there is no survival. Without water for crops, there is no food. Without water for the […]
(E) If there is a piano concerto that every pianist dreams to play (especially me), it is, without a doubt, the Third Piano Concerto from Sergei Rachmaninoff (often named Rach […]
(B) Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault and Nissan, came to Silicon Valley earlier this year at the Churchill Club to share his views on the future of electric cars. I was […]
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