Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Via Martin Varsavsky, I find a WSJ article where Steve Forbes gives a provoking view on the roots of the Banking Crisis. Mark-to-market or "fair value" accounting for financial institutions was re-established in 2007 in USA. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rules that the balance sheet must reflect the "market" value ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
One year has passed since we started this blog with Steve Job's famous commencement address.
Less than one month later a post on LinuxMCE made it to the front page of Digg, and got 25.000 visits in one day!
Since then, we have spoken about iPhone, Android, Mobile Internet, Mobile TV, IPTV, Internet ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Financial Crashes and Bubbles are opposite expressions of how absurd and irrational markets can behave. Markets over-react irrationally, driven by the irrational sentiments of fear and greed. Panic drives the Crashes and over-enthusiasm drives the Bubbles.
As Martin Varsavsky said to Tim O-Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo:
“Markets are bipolar, and ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, just landed in Spain to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize, the Spanish version of the Nobel Prize. In his dialog with the press, Larry said that, working in Search, Google aims to be more and more intelligent, know more and more, gather more information ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The video shows a keynote of inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil in February 2005. Despite being more than three years old, his insights remain as valid as ever.
Some of the points Mr. Kurzweil makes:
Most new inventions fail only because of wrong timing. Not all enabling factors will be in place ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
A few weeks from its first anniversary, tech-talk.biz becomes Disruption Matters.
The change in name stresses the increased focus this blog will have on technologies and ideas that are transforming our World. And few areas are changing it as fast as the Communications Industry and the convergence of Telecom, Internet, IT ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
After a few days of use, I am delighted with the simple, clean, minimalistic user interface. Some people complain about lack of support for toolbars or not having a proper bookmarks organizer, but I love the Google concept of "forget about folders and simply search" when you need to find ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
After a long summer break, welcome to the new season of tech-talk.biz
It has been two months with big sport events as the UEFA EURO Cup and the Beijing Olympics, covered for the first time not only on TV but also on Internet and mobile phones. And competition has not been ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Spain is the Champion of the Euro 2008. Forty-four years after the European Cup that Spain won in Madrid in 1964, this is the only major title the Spanish squad has conquered.
Spain has been a favorite for many major tournaments before only to disappoint and lose in quarter finals ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
I go on summer holidays. So during the next weeks posts might be more infrequent.
See you soon
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