The Creative Mind
(E) Creativity in arts, science, and technology is about bringing change. Painters reveal new colors to our eyes, musicians new harmonies to our ears, scientists explain us why, and engineers […]
The Creative Team
(E) What do engineers, product managers, entrepreneurs who started with a few ideas, a few tools, and a few dollars have in common in generating a tremendous amount of value […]
Fukushima Nuclear Plant BP Oil Spill How Many Disasters Before We Plug the World with Solar Energy
(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 […]
The Global Consumerization of Information Technology
(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 […]
The Quest for Highly Efficient Solar Photovoltaics Cells
(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 […]
Entrepreneurship Europe versus Silicon Valley
(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 […]
Der Schauspieldirektor What do We have Left from the Previous Decade To Address in the New Decade
(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 […]
If Jim Cramer and John Doerr are not Investing in Clean Tech Who Will?
(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 […]
The Race to Faster Data Rates WiFi Moving Soon Beyond 1 Gbps
(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 […]
Cloud Computing Let not be Confused by the Vendors or What Wall Street Understands
(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 […]
Why So Much Buzz About HTML 5
(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 […]
A Silicon Valley Insider Selected Among the Best International Technology Blogs by Computer Weekly
(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 […]
The Mobile Apps Market Growing Fast very Fast
(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 […]
The New World for Video From New Video Formats and New Streaming Protocols to HTML 5 and Google TV
(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 […]
The Key to Success is Insanely Great Products
(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 […]
Wireless for Dummies 4G LTE EPC and IMS
(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 […]
A New Disruptive Technology Signals Market Value Destruction and Creation
(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 […]
Symantec Stuxnet Deep Diving
(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 […]
Investing in Clean Energy Leaders
(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 […]
Mathematics is Still Essential for Science and Technology to Progress
(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 […]
What Will it Take to Run the Country and the World with Clean Energy
(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 […]
What Will it Take for Europe to Wake Up One Day
(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, […]
Getting the Salt Out of Seawater at the Same Price as Fresh Water from the Ground
(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 […]
Superb Performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 by Hotaik Sung and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra
(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 […]
Carlos Ghosn on Zero Emission Cars
(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 […]
A Silicon Valley Insider 