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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal says that T-mobile USA may be preparing a bid on Sprint Nextel to move from 3rd to 1st position in the US.
New $150m Fund for Blackberry applications developer called the BlackBerry Partners Fund.
The iPhone killer wannabe: a Blackberry. The Blackberry 9000.
Twitter is finaly trying to do ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Great surprise when embarking on today's flight from Paris to Toronto. The plane was upgraded to the new cabin on one of Air Canada's B767-300. Usually, AC interiors are known, as on most companies, to be very sober and lacking space.
I won't go into all the details of the rearrangement ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Last week Google, in an attempt to enter the Clound computing market, launched Google App Engine and, just this morning, a major integration with Salesforce in order to penetrate the enterprise market. In the shadow of these big news, Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels has quietly announced this morning that EC2 ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
For short, twitter is addictive. It's like using SMS but having all your friends know what others are talking about. You can interject, complement, deny, speak, yell or simply listen. The messages are short, 140 character long. Typing a message involves so few steps that it's easy to say "@nicolas_ ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
A few days ago, Unfuddle released an update that introduced OpenID. The interesting part is that if you are using multiple accounts on unfuddle (foo.unfuddle.com, bar.unfuddle.com) you will be able to login only once. No more multiple users to remember for each account.
On another note for this same update, although ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
If you were happy when LinkedIn added an rss feed to monitor your network updates, you may have realized that the link provided in each post was going to the general Contacts page. Very annoying especially when you browse large numbers of contacts. The good news is, since this morning, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The missing link towards an OpenDiploma
Did you know iTunes U was launched almost a year ago? While asking around, I realized none of my ipod/podcast friends knew about it. Having deserted the itunes world a few months ago when my first generation ipod's battery died, I wasn't using iTunes at ...
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