Signs of life on Nokia planet

Will Nokia succeed to get back at being the design leader in smartphone market?

Interviewing Fabrizio Capobianco: an optimistic Italian

Fabrizio Capobianco is Funambol founder and CEO. For having created an Italian company and then made it the world leader in its industry, for managing the largest open source product in wireless and, most importantly, for its unstoppable optimism about the future of software and services in Italy, he’s an inspiration to many startupper (and wannabe) of the “Bel Paese” and worldwide.

In this interview he talks about Funambol, technology, and Italy. Many useful tips for startuppers

Supporting The Case Against Data Lock-in

A few days ago the Data Liberation Front, a team created by Google apparently to lower lock-in on data that its services generate on  users , has publicly clarified its mission (note: the DLF has been started in 2007, made

The society of objects

How social do you expect the objects will be one day? Would you allow machines and software to interact with you in a social manner?

Where is the Tablet market going?

I’m not, perhaps you know it, a big fan of Apple. Lately, however, it seems that Cupertino has reached again, as with the iPhone, the usual result: create a product, open a market, consolidate a large chunk of the customers

How the long tail is reshaping the smartphone business

Since few months, the established concept of the Long Tail is finding the first evidence of its applicability even in the mobile market. In particular, as was expected, it works when modeling the availability and sales of applications distributed via

System Integrators: a time for changing

Hos SaaS adoption will change the role of System Integrators?

Mobile Security threats: a trip

Are you excited of the capabilities of your new smartphone? Crackers are too. Cristofaro Mune help us to recap on the major mobile security threats identified so far, at the smarphone level, by going throuhg a series of examples.

Sei eccitato le capacità del tuo nuovo smartphone? Anche i Crackers lo sono!. Cristofaro Mune ci aiuta a ricapitolare sulle principali minacce di sicurezza finora individuati, per ciò che riguarda gli smartphones, passando attraverso una serie di esempi.

Un’analisi laica e pragmatica di Frontiers of Interaction 2010

Il 3 e il 4 Giugno, con mia grande soddisfazione ho partecipato a Frontiers Of Interaction 2010. Era la prima volta che partecipavo a questa interessantissima conferenza, giunta ormai alla sua sesta edizione. Nella mia immensa immodestia ho voluto condividere

Interviewing Richard Stallman: Freedom in the time of SaaS

Richard Stallman is one of the most revolutionary thinkers and activists of the twentieth century. Thanks to him we have things like GNU and free software movement. Meedabyte had the opportunity to publish an interview with him about the threats to personal freedom deriving from using what is commonly identified as SaaS.

All of us use SaaS every day but the contours of this phenomenon, which has so many obscure points for users, are rarely clear.

Emerges a clear picture: on one hand users, citizens, taxpayers, on the other huge economic interests. In the middle, the need for individuals to mobilize and be the first lawyers of their own Freedom.

Richard Stallman è uno dei pensatori più rivoluzionari e gli attivisti del ventesimo secolo.A lui dobbiamo cose come GNU e del movimento del software libero. Meedabyte avuto l’opportunità di pubblicare un’intervista con lui riguardo le minacce alla libertà personale derivanti dal Software as a Service.

Tutti noi usiamo SaaS ogni giorno, ma i contorni di questo fenomeno, che ha così tanti punti oscuri per gli utenti, raramente sono chiari.

Ne emerge un quadro chiaro: da un lato gli utenti, cittadini, contribuenti, dall’altro enormi interessi economici. Nel mezzo, la necessità per gli individui di mobilitarsi e di essere i primi gli avvocati della propria libertà.