(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 […]
(B) For the present academic year, some of the staff and faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the most prestigious universities of the US, are on […]
(B) If every citizen, of every country on our planet, were to consume like an American citizen today, the world would need 5.4 Earths to sustain us! It takes today […]
(T) I will always remember the Monday morning in 1989 when I was “Up in the Air” traveling from Paris to London with my general manager and learning from the […]
(E) Watching the painful images of human losses from the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I cannot stop imagining how San Francisco will look like after the next big “ONE” […]
(E) Please donate to support the worldwide earthquake rescue efforts in Haiti. The human suffering from the January 12, 7.0 earthquake is beyond what we have ever seen! More than […]
(B) Rising world population, ever growing demands of goods and services, destruction of the earth ecosystems and resources and climate change are the four major challenges for our global human […]
(E) Continuing the path to an ever-expanding carbonized economy is taking the risk that global society will not flourish anymore. We all know that. The world’s current ecological developments are […]
(E) Since the start of the industrial revolution in the 1820s, human combustion of fossil fuels and destruction of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the […]
(T) Is the Smart Power Grid “reality” or “hype”? There are definitely a number of inflated expectations about what is presently the Smart Grid, why do we need it or […]
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