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Internet helps finding bad journalists.
Say you are a journalist, one working in a famous and heralded newspaper. You have been assigned to write an interview about an hostess who enjoys selling her body as a second job. Now, your article...
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Fifth lane and trademarks
Last summer in Haarlem (The Netherlands) I attended a concert of a group that back then was named Mayday. Since I loved their music I even bought their CD and now I believe I have the one and only...
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Sunset of the personal computer industry
Is there anybody out there who doesn’t know who Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are? Everybody and his brother know that they are the leaders of Apple and Microsoft and have been dominating the personal...
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Third paradigm shift in mobile VAS?
It looks like we are again at a turning point in the Value Added Services space. Apparently this market undergoes at least one paradigm shift every three years. The first happened in 2002, when...
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Android, Google & Italian laws
Google led the creation of Open Handset Alliance, a consortium involving a number of telco and manufacturers . As its first act the Alliance released Android, an open source operating system for...
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Walk score
This is a great tool, thank you Joel! Basically you enter an address and Walk Score looks it up in Google map automatically collecting a list of interesting places you can reach on foot and finally...
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Ten years with Open Source
Exactly ten years ago, on Feb 9th 1998, Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond began the Open Source movement. It was just a different way to explain what had been already happening for quite a few years, and...
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Netscape EOLed
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15 And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast...
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…sorry I was on Facebook!
So… last time I blogged was months ago. Back then I was in Brazil. Where have I been since then? No, I was not kidnapped in a favela. No, I was not out of topics. Actually, I had many things to...
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Swordfish
I recently watched this movie. The plot is about an ex secret agent from Mossad now secretly controlled by the US government to perform illegal actions in defense of the “American lifestyle” and...
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