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I’ve already talked about dump pipes, which is what common network providers are. They’ve lost services to startups, apps to the app stores and capabilities to technology; GPS…
That was an RedHat commercial back in 2005, when they were hitting Microsoft and closed source every month with their “Truth Happens” – legendary – campaign. 10 years…
I found Marvin in the book already mentioned here, which I advise everyone to read: Hackers. One of the things I remember back then was about “the enthusiasm of…
Yesterday on twitter, Larry Carvalho was talking about the next big AWS step; on-premise availability zones. That’s interesting, but if we think of it on a broader scale; why…
It’s that time of the year when Gartner launches their predictions and state of technology with the Hype Cycle.. Here’s some interesting notes: Hybrid Cloud Computing is half way…
Sends email to IT with security details IT emails back with User/Password Changes password to a pass phrase Too long pass phrase Changes back to a random password…
Not all companies produce software and from those that do, not all make them available as opensource projects. Closed source and IP is still considered a form of…
From the same guys that brought you a mobile roaming free Europe, now they say that you should have a fast and slow lane to the internet. And…
Oracle had yesterday (Sunday, yes) its Oracle OpenWorld and Larry keynote was on late night here in London – for everyone’s standards… … and it felt like this:…
As you might’ve noticed by now, we don’t have the cloud versioning thing as we had in the silly web times (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…) or as we still…
XKCD nailed it quite well. “I don’t care about passwords, honestly” is more stronger than “[email protected]$vv0rDs” For the record, if you have a phrase like the one about…
It’s all over the news; TalkTalk was hacked. We’re talking about customers personal information and bank details. So, pretty much their core business – not core function, as it still…
We all know by now that AWS is massive not just on cloud capabilities, but also infrastructure wise and with revenue + investment. The same with Google and Microsoft. With…
“No one got fired for buying IBM” – that was the status-quo of vendor lock-in two decades ago. It was so much entangled into the IT culture that people wouldn’t…
… this happened This quote came from Joyent presentation about Linux containers on illumos (opensolaris fork) and represents two things: 1) the people that loved linux on the desktop…
So, I wasn’t around when Compatible Time-Sharing Systems (CTSS) were in place – hard to believe, eh? 😛 – but my father was and he still has a box…
Big enterprise has their gold plated, enterprise grade hardware, and all of their enterprise software support and there are huge bills there. With cloud, this gets cleaned out,…
Tesla cars will reach 620 miles on a single charge within a year or two and be fully autonomous in three years. Simple and clear message.
I’m not the biggest Microsoft fan in the world. Heck! I was never a Microsoft fanboy – neither Apple, btw. But I see that now, with Google and…
Recently I’ve found some interesting data on our github, under the punch cards graphs. It currently describes three projects and how we approach them. – Case 1 –…
It has been two months since my last post here. Which is really alarming, since I promised myself to right every month at least a post. Guess that…
For future reference, I’m going to leave here two links for you to explore: http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/ http://www.vice.com/read/in-conversation-with-games-industry-legend-ian-livingstone-551 The first one tells the story of Lemmings – one of the…
Calvin and Hobbes was created for 10 years. It lives forever in me. In 2013 Bill draw this. http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ Priceless!
I have a Sony Z3 Compact from Three UK. The phone is one of the best phones I ever had and its form factor is superb, along with…
In two recent news: In 2009, Zynga was a marquee customer for Amazon.com ‘cloud-computing services. Two years later, it spent $100 million to build its own data centers…
The NY Times has a brilliant article about Microsoft which is probably the best resume for their future and current strategy. We’ve seen Microsoft acting weird under Ballmer command…
When they say they started doing some digital projects: When digital consultants arrive: Local Gov agile expectations: Agile delivery: Images from http://www.ridingvintage.com/
CIO.com has a quite interesting article on how the Shadow IT favours the Chief Marketing Officer and their agenda, rather than the regular IT Manager or CIO. Shadow…
1) Use this as a bitcoin wallet; 2) fill a datacenter with them; 3) sell it as the world first bitcoin bank 4) profit It comes with built-in…
Back in the 80’s, we had this (actually, I had one of these made in Portugal): This was a Timex 2048, which was a “clone” of ZX Spectrum….
Just found out this new documentary about cartoons and comics, called Stripped, released this year. As you might figure out by now, I’m a huge fan of comics…
Storage was that beautiful thing that used to be just yours, to put whatever you want into it and have it for yourself. It was like a no sharing…
My new year resolutions as a long tail diagram.
This guy landed a spacecraft on an asteroid. This guy landed a probe in Mars. Now these, are consultants. Any kind of them. And they are happy as…
Old habits die hard, they say. Network is one of them. Network in the datacenter is not actually a modern habit. It’s rather vanishing because more people are…
Finally Microsoft launched an Internet Explorer for developers and designers to test their own websites. It’s free and it’s not a virtual machine but rather an Azure (free)…
Is actually the Apple SIM, that they launched today. Pretty clever move. Have a SIM that could connect to a bunch of mobile carriers, being sold as ‘agnostic’…
Sometimes I get asked if companies should have more than one technology supplier (to have discounts) or a bunch of them (to have choice). It’s indeed a matter…
A few years ago, Telcos ruled the world. They controlled our calls, messages, games, apps, payments, address book, location and even music. Those services were all provided by…
really love how much Mutts is perfectly synced with my life
This is a graph that Jawbone released from yesterday earthquake in Napa, Northern California. Pretty cool, when you have access to data of thousands of users and you can…
20 years ago I had this pager. My mom used to “call” me on that. It had a good alarm and news service. Now we use twitter.
When you work for the public sector, there’s this need to create your own walled garden and make yourself the guardian keeper of something. It might be some…
There’s a lot of talk today around startups and how nice it is to build something for people to use or consume. Some do it for themselves (which…
– Clean data is like clean water. It’s expensive, scarce and we should save it for hard times. – If data is like water, then it doesn’t matter…
Jony Ive is known as the genius behind latest Apple products, such as the iphone, iMac, Macbook, iPod and even the new iOS. So I thought that this…
Today when I opened google I saw something different… Oh, yeah, it’s me. One more year and half way of expected life. But then someone shared with me…
“Apple is the new Microsoft“, some say. Almost every hipster and Apple fanboy will tell that’s not true and will fearlessly say it’s the opposite. Because Apple will never loose…