Monthly Archives: January 2008

Nokia and Yahoo moves

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Nokia acquires TrollTech, a Linux company,  for $153 million. In return Nokia gets Qt, a Linux-based software platform that is behind KDE, Google Earth, Opera or Skype. TrollTech also owns Qtopia, a platform for embedded Linux-base software platform for mobiles. The … Continue reading →

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Transforming Telcos: Telco 2.0

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Two weeks ago I found, as a guest post at GigaOM, an interesting article from  STL Partners  on the future of broadband. While I disagree on a few points, it does bring some fresh ideas about the evolution of telcos: … Continue reading →

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Linux on PS3?

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A game console is in essence a computer with a “gaming operating system”. Sony PS3 specs outshine most of our PCs at home, and not only in Graphics power: CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 218 GFLOPS … Continue reading →

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The right price for downloads and rentals

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The Music and Movie industries are across a major transformation. The technological disruption brought by Internet and Mp3 requires a sharp disruption in their business model too. In the past, consumers were hostages of labels and studios, that were able … Continue reading →

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Digital Home options for PC2TV

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

An effective architecture for the Digital Home requires two main elements: a centralized shared storage for media files, and a Media Player that connects to each of the displays at home: TVs, LCD, Plasma screens in different rooms. We reviewed … Continue reading →

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NAS: The new device for home

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

As we anticipated in our 2008 predictions, the demand for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices at home is rapidly increasing. Apple announcement of Time Capsule, even if not a proper NAS, goes into that direction. There are two trends we all … Continue reading →

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Presentation Zen: The definitive book on presentations

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Once more Guy Kawasaki’s blog writes an illustrative post on a book and the ideas of its author. In this case, the book is Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. Here just a summary of questions from Guy and answers from … Continue reading →

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Myths of Entrepreneurship

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

This is a guest post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog from Scott Shane, professor of enterpreneurship, author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live Below are Scott Shane’s top ten myths and the … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs Keynote 2008

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

2008 Apple’s keynote has introduced great products: MacBook Air, iTunes Movie Rentals, AppleTV Take 2, new applications for iPhone and iTouch, and Time Capsule. Keynote highlights in nine minutes from YouTube: If you only have 60 seconds to view the … Continue reading →

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iJam was not part of the 2008 keynote

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

If Apple was from Spain: http://www.ijam.es/

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