My little homage to Steve Jobs. The “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” commercial was a great success but the version that was aired in 1997 was with Richard Dreyfuss’s voiceover. There was a version, never made public then, in which Steve Jobs did the voiceover. That version was recovered and is the one included here. [...]
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“Here’s to the Crazy Ones” with Steve Jobs’ voiceover
November 1, 2011
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What is and what is not a mobile strategy
October 26, 2011
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There is no doubt that there is a boom of applications, the so called “apps”, available for mobile devices. Organizations of all types, private or public, for profit or not, big or small, have embarked themselves in a fever to develop mobile applications. Many of these organizations (because of its leaders) are showing a lack [...]
The interesting part of the Skype acquisition is not who bought it but who didn’t
May 16, 2011
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Over the last few years we all have witnessed the convergence of three industries. Nowadays voice, data (mostly for internet service) and TV services are all provided by a limited number of companies.The days of ATT as phone provider, COX, ComCast or Charter as cable providers and AOL as internet service provider (ISP) are long [...]
Que la crisis es real ya no lo discute nadie. Pero si uno abre los ojos ayer por la tarde, después de haberlos tenido cerrados por un año, y ve los resultados de Apple pensaría que la crisis no existe. A pesar de que mucha gente critica sus productos por excesivamente caros, sobre todo si [...]
Hoy ya somos muchos lo que trabajamos en más de un ordenador (en la oficina, en la casa, con el portátil). Por el hecho de que muchos ya tenemos ordenadores portátiles, y últimamente los llamados netbooks, nos encontramos teniendo que llevar con nosotros los dispositivos USB (también llamados pen drives) con nuestros archivos y ficheros [...]
IT Rapid Deployment Kit White Paper
May 18, 2009
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A few months ago I wrote the attached white paper (480 Kb. PDF file) based on my experience in deployments around the world. Usually these deployments are in places where conditions might be difficult and usually are associated with events such as natural disasters, health related emergencies or even political transitions. Hard to reach, unreliable [...]
Smart Grid: Google and GE teaming up
February 10, 2009
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By now we all know that Google is no longer (if it ever was) a search-engine related company. Obviously it is much more than that and is trying to be part of all aspects of our lives. We have enjoyed, for a while now, services like web search engine, email, word processor, spreadsheet, library, news [...]
How the Apple iPhone is leading the way against Blackberries and the rest of the smart phone industry
November 21, 2008
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In the November 24, 2008 issue of Fortune magazine there is an article that briefly explains what Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the Blackberries, is trying to do to maintain its current dominance in the smart phone market in the US (Up to July 2008 its market share was 50% and it was the [...]
Google y la Gripe. Usos innovadores de la información existente.
November 14, 2008
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Sería interesante poder saber el número diario de nuevos enfermos de gripe, también sería muy interesante poder saber en qué ciudades y hacía dónde se va expandiendo cada día. Esta información, hasta ahora, le costaba al Centro de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, siglas en inglés para el Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) [...]
Innovación, la campaña política de Barack Obama y el uso de las tecnologías de información
November 12, 2008
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Cuando hablamos de innovación ya todo el mundo asume que no quiere decir nuevas tecnologías, ni investigación y desarrollo, ni brain storming, ni nuevos productos, etc. Ya todos sabemos que hay varios tipos de innovación, desde la puramente basada en la eficiencia a la más revolucionaria. De igual forma los términos Web 2.0, redes sociales, [...]
