In a previous post on this blog, Josep wrote about how China seems to be loosening its tight control over the accessibility of internet content in that country. However, with recent developments with Google in China, the direction of these changes may be in question. After a tough year, where Google internet services were down […]
The iPad, or how to unlock your Internet data from the mobile operator
If you were to design the best device possible to have the Internet in your hands, how would it look like? Now, we know how. Or at least, now we know how Apple has interpreted this challenge after more than a decade working on it. If you were to design the best business model to […]
The battle for the smart phone
Last Friday Sony-Ericsson announced its 2009 results: losses of $1.24 billion with a drop of sales of 40% from the previous year. This made me look at other phone manufacturers, like Nokia, Motorola or HTC. The latest data reported by the Finish company are for the quarter ending in September 09: 20% drop in sales form the same quarter […]
Why Enterprise Use of Social Media Needs More IT Involvement
The time has finally come. We can now publicly speak about the findings of the research study on the enterprise use of social media that has been in the works since the beginning of 2009. Cisco, the sponsor of the study, issued a global press release on January 13th and over the last few days the story has been […]