(T) While database engineers from the last two decades were trained to develop with SQL databases, the new generations of engineers are trained to develop with NoSQL databases for Big […]
(T) To cover the capital investments (CAPEX) and the operating investments (OPEX) required for a cloud-based infrastructure such as the ones from Facebook, Yahoo, or Amazon, in order to provide a […]
(E) From the early days, philosophers have been philosophizing about human civilizations sculptured with two antagonists forces: love and hate, and four elements – the earth, water, air, and fire. […]
(T) Over the last year, I have attended many hackathons, and in that course learned many new technologies. Hackathons are a great way for developers to learn new programming languages […]
(B) Today after 30 years of services, the Minitel “nous tire sa révérence”. The 700,000 Minitel subscribers in France will not have access anymore to the first worldwide online service […]
(T) In January 2011, the Corona SDK got an incredible level of attention from game developers, from all over the world, when ABC featured Robert Nay, a 14 years old […]
(B) It is interesting to see the transformation of Dell from the early 90s to the beginning of this decade. While Dell was in its inspection a provider of PCs […]
(B) Besides portability, our smartphones have many features that our desktop computers do not have. They can see – they have cameras that can be moved. They can feel – […]
(E) I had the opportunity to attend in 2010 a talk organized by the Center of Ethics at Stanford University from Elinor Ostrom about “Understanding Social-Ecological Systems”. Professor Ostrom was the first woman to […]
(B) It is always much easier to acquire a company than to successfully integrate it, nurture it and expand it within the acquirer. In most cases after the acquisition, the […]
(B) The day that she started her new job, Meg Whitman was interviewed on CNBC by David Faber, and to the question why did she accept the position of CEO at Hewlett […]
(T) Over the last few months, a few Google engineers have been presented Dart an open-source Web programming language started at Google in many meetings in Silicon Valley. Dart aims […]
(T) The popularity of Lua is huge among game developers. Lua has been used by many game programmers, from Angry Birds to Bubble Ball (the popular iPhone game from 14-year […]
(T) Martin Odersky, a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and author of Scala (Scalable Language) recently came to Silicon Valley and presented the new […]
(E) There was a lot going on this week for the media. European countries (to the exception of the UK) agreed on monitoring their budget deficits at their (last?) debt […]
(E) I received this weekend some simple and great tips from the San Mateo recycling center to think green this holiday season. Statistics show that during the holidays, household waste […]
(B) We did painfully learn in August of this year, during the US debt ceiling crisis, how it is difficult for one country to do the right “thing”. Now imagine, […]
(T) The new challenge to optimize the performance of the Internet is “ideally” to provide for mobile users a near-zero latency experience to the Mobile Web. While for the last […]
(T) When Pathfinder was about to land on Mars in 1997, the challenge for NASA emerged paradoxically not in space but on earth on the Internet. The 20 NASA mirrored […]
(T) D-Wave, a start-up based in British Columbia and a spin-off of the University of British Columbia, has been working for over 11 years on quantum computation. In 2007, D-Wave presented […]
(T) A few years ago, a friend of mine told me that he was using LinkedIn instead of scanning people business cards. Keeping business cards of people that we met […]
(B) The Greek debt crisis started over a year ago. And Europe does not seem close to a resolution. It is even worse: the opportunity for the European leaders to […]
(B) According to the Economist, the US only known instance of a technical default occurred in 1979 when the US Treasury failed to redeem $122 million of Treasury bills on […]
(T) Thirty years ago, Ken Olsen, founder, and CEO of Digital Equipment, never believed in the PC. His argument was that “why someone would use a PC when much more computing […]
(T) At the Web 2.0 Expo 2011, last month in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly from Wired Magazine described extremely well six forces (I am adding the seventh one – connecting) that will […]
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