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The Cloud Wars

July 9, 2009

The cloud wars will pick two camps against each oth­ers: on one side, advo­cates of appli­ca­tions run­ning on the desk­top; on the other advo­cates of appli­ca­tions run­ning in a browser.

No Changes in Mobile

June 24, 2008

Today’s announce­ment by Nokia that it would acquire all of Sym­bian rep­re­sents an impor­tant move in the upcom­ing bat­tle for next gen­er­a­tion mobile devices (to call them phone seems unfair as they tend to do more than just make calls). In this entry, I’ll take a quick look at how the dif­fer­ent play­ers are cur­rently approaching […]

iPhone 2: More than meets the eye

June 11, 2008

There has been much writ­ten about Steve Jobs’ keynote on Mon­day, intro­duc­ing a new ver­sion of the iPhone, a rebranded ver­sion of .mac, and a new ver­sion of the OSX Oper­at­ing Sys­tem. How­ever, amid all the praises, there seems to have been a few items miss­ing from the dis­cus­sion. iPhone: 3G OK but not every­where As expected, Apple did […]

Palm responds, Part 1

January 12, 2008

In part 1 of a 2 part inter­view, John Moses, global Vice Pres­i­dent of Cus­tomer Sup­port for Palm, answers ques­tions about Palm’s call cen­ters and about my own expe­ri­ence with them.

The iPhone is here

January 9, 2007

So it’s offi­cial: Apple now is a phone man­u­fac­turer. With the announce­ment of the Apple iPhone, we can now finally assess that new prod­uct and I have to say, color me impressed. The com­pany has man­aged to over­come a lot of the prob­lems sur­round­ing exist­ing mobile phones and cre­ated a device that is close to what geeks like myself […]

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

Microsoft Does Linux

April 4, 2006

I had to check the date on the arti­cle when I saw the announce­ment that Microsoft was going to pro­vide some level of sup­port for Linux. How­ever, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke; it’s the real thing and has seri­ous impli­ca­tions. In order to under­stand the impact, one has to under­stand how Microsoft used […]

Microsoft Loves RSS

June 23, 2005

The blo­gosh­pere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced sup­port for RSS. Here’s a quick his­tory of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the stan­dard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syn­di­ca­tion space. With the release of Inter­net Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the Redmond […]

DRM is not binary

January 21, 2005

Much of the dis­cus­sion over Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment has focused on the extremes, offer­ing only and all or noth­ing approach. How­ever, my own recent expe­ri­ence is that there is much more gran­u­lar­ity to DRM than most peo­ple in the space want you to think. Fresh­ness vs. Con­ve­nience vs. Value When watch­ing movies, I have sev­eral options. I can Go […]

Why Apple should consider Wintel

November 19, 2004

Last week, two major events showed the decreas­ing power of the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem: the first one was the release of Fire­fox and the sec­ond was the release of Kon­fab­u­la­tor on the Win­dows plat­form. All this got me think­ing about how we relate to our oper­at­ing sys­tems and in par­tic­u­lar, about how I relate to the operating […]