Motorolla launch new cell with Android

At the Mobilize conference on Thursday in San Francisco, Motorola CEO Dr. Sanjay Jha unveiled an Android smartphone called CLIQ (all caps in the tradition of the RAZR and ROKR) that will be available soon from T-Mobile. The device features a new service called Blur that Motorola developed to bring deep social networking integration and Web synchronization support to Android handsets.


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To me, the future for the emerging country's internet/communication infrastructure is with that type of mobiledon't think Mobillize 09 from GigaOM would not contredict me on this.

html5

Mark Pilgrim has publish one chapter of his upcoming "Dive into HTML5". You can find it here.

Managing geeks

This article from computerworld should be required reading from any executive. It is dead on.

Bit Torrent for legitimate use

I have been investigating the use of BitTorrent for video conference distribution for a NOG that cannot afford CDN's fees. Very interesting technology, full of possibilities. But then, Techdirt has a great post that sour my interest somewhat. you can find this post here.

RESTful vs SOAP:a business case

Weird that CTO's still think of WS as needing to be SOAP. I though I was missing something, that there might be some virtue to SOAP I was unaware of. Seems I did not miss anything and that soap is not perceived as a waste only by me. You can read an articulated reflexion on this subject here.

DimDim Video Conference

I was looking at open source solutions and found this product from DimDim. I really like to see the OS model successful.

Virtuous Circle

GigaOM is publishing two rather convincing cases on Apple's business strategy.

Apple is perpetuating a “virtuous cycle,” as Gene Munster put it in a recent research note, to keep users on the iPod Touch — an improved version of the lock-in provided by the old iTunes/iPod music ecosystem. Users buy the iPod Touch; download apps; developers promote their apps (and the iPod Touch platform), which leads to more consumers buying the iPod Touch. Even better (for Apple), customers can only purchase apps through the company, leading to even more device lock-in.

iPod sales might be dropping, but Apple says half of new purchases of the device are to customers who have never owned one before. I’m willing to bet that many of those customers are interested in Apple’s new Wi-Fi platform. And then, in an even more impressive version of the iPod halo, iPod Touch owners could look to Apple when it’s time to buy their next computer. A virtuous cycle indeed.

You can read the rest of this great post here and follow up with this