Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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It's now been about one year since the original iPhone came out, but it's the new version of the phone where things really start getting interesting. First of all, Microsoft has been pushing hard to make progress with Windows Mobile with help from HTC and ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Numerous different places have reported that Microsoft has struck a deal with HP to install Live as the default search engine for their consumer PC line. Also, as a side effect, Silverlight (and .Net) will make its way on these PCs. This seems to be a duplication of the strategy ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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The New York Times writes about reaction on electronic books at BookExpo America. I've been using my Sony PRS-505 for a few months now and I can see why some publishers, and especially booksellers are getting worried. The value chain of book publishing is hopefully starting to change, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Scott Berkun has an interesting essay, on how to innovate, that makes a lot of sense. Innovations and innovation culture has always been of great interest for me, mainly because I've been working on product and business development for quite some time now.
The biggest challenge is not innovation itself, but ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Steve Rubel of Edelman Digital has a thoughtful post about online communities. My prediction is that online communities as we view them now, will eventually become extinct as mobility becomes the key factor and we move from communities to always on presence services - a form of pervasive computing.
Just by ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
TC reported Yahoo!'s latest developments with search and in my opinion the new functionality looks fantastic. First of all, Yahoo! is going to open up their search platform utilizing Amazon's OpenSearch API for structured content queries. Secondly, Yahoo! will implement multiple microformats that the users can use to markup content ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Scientific American has had a couple of articles involving optics and quantum mechanics that seem quite interesting. First, a group of researchers in University of St. Andrews in Scotland, have come up with a way to create tiny artificial black holes using optical fibers and carefully aligned light pulses of ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
It’s been a while since I last wrote anything as this blog was not meant as an active outlet for my excess toughts. However, I may have to change my ways as my amount of input vs. amount of output ratio is rapidly approaching infinity.
As a more educated reader ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
I was lucky enough to be one of the panelists at TiVi-ilta (http://tivi.fi/ilta) last evening. The subject was Agile, or more precisely, business oriented ICT development. Just a fast mental note about thoughts I had afterwards...
Agile is becoming a bandwagon thing
I think every business is struggling with time to market ...
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