At Sofcon, earlier this week, I talked with Fabrizio Capobianco (pictured), the CEO of mobile open source company Funambol, just after his panel titled "Who Will Provide the Software and Services?" that I found pretty information-free. In a nutshell,...

In his keynote at Web 2.0 Expo yesterday, Tim O'Reilly (pictured, by Duncan Davidson) described the Internet as THE global plaform for everything connected, that will harness collective intelligence. This "open" plaform will make everybody smarter akin to literacy....

If you're looking for money to finance your idea/project/start-up, here are the best advices I got out of the Churchill Club's "Successful Strategies for Early Stage Companies: The Investor Perspective" event this morning with Keith Larson, VP of Intel...

After the panel on "Business Models and Investment Opportunities" at the Mobile Future conference, I caught up with Kleiner Perkin's partner, Matt Murphy (pictured), the point person for the $100 million iFund for iPhone Application Developers. In the 5...

According to EFF co-founder, John Gilmore (pictured), speaking at SOFCON, one of the reason the municipal WiFi project failed apart was that it was tied to tracking the location of everyone using the network and keeping that information forever...

Verizon promises to "openly" connect places to people to devices and in any of these combinations. The carrier also claims 65.7 million wireless subscribers (out of a total of 255.4 million in the U.S.) and that 55 per cent...

Is the mobile era, a repeat of the mainframe, the minicomputer and the PC revolutions? Very much so, says Nokia CTO, Bob Iannucci (pictured), who gave today's luncheon keynote at SOFCON 2008. For the head of Nokia's Silicon Valley...

I just came back from a dinner organised by the International Press Club of California at San Francisco's restaurant Bong Su and hosted by Spanish company FON. Sitting at the table were the foreign correspondents based in the Bay...

Here are some of the events our team will be covering this week: - Monday: The International Press Club of California is receiving the CEO of FON, who will talk about the Spanish company strategy to create its global...

After his presentation, I caught up with John Lam to drill down on his work at Microsoft. The #1 goal for Iron Ruby is to run "real" Ruby programs on Windows. Lam expects to finish implementing the Ruby language...

After the jump i've put the presentation Microsoft's Iron Ruby Guy and Open Source Evangelist, John Lam (pictured), gave at SD Forum's Ruby conference. Hard core Ruby fans would certainly enjoy it. The others should just pass :-)...