I’m Pietro, I work with Martin and I’m guest blogging about this year’s Menorca TechTalk as Martin is very busy running the whole event. Guests spent four days in Martin’s farms in Menorca and had a great time. Yesterday there was a talk opened to the public, with entrepreneurs giving informal presentations on topics ranging [...]

Last February I turned my Lenovo PC laptop into a Lenovo Mac and many readers told me what I was doing was illegal. Well, if that was illegal, what about the incredible offer from Psystar everybody has been talking about in the last few weeks? Here is a video on TechCrunch, long but worth watching, [...]

Thanks to Seesmic, the start up founded by my friend Loic Le Meur and in which I’m an investor, you can now leave video comments to my posts in my Spanish and English blogs. Loic was one of the first to leave one! Leaving a video comment is very easy, you just need a webcam, [...]

Think about cars! Think about how much pollution we could save the world if we started sharing cars in a systematic and organized way. This is what start ups like PickupPal or Zimride (makers of the Carpool app on Facebook) are trying to do on the Web. These are great ideas, trying to make carpooling [...]

Journalists sometimes portray WiFi as the enemy of operator based mobile services.  But if you take a look at this email I got today from AT&T you will see that what we reply at Fon is true.  That mobile operators are concerned about apps that use a lot of data and prefer that traffic to [...]

Yesterday Fring released an iPhone version of its great mobile VoIP and Instant Messaging application. This is the first native application providing real VoIP on the iPhone, via WiFi, of course. Fring is compatible with Skype, MSN, GTalk, ICQ and Yahoo! and provides calling and messaging to your friends on these popular networks. It also [...]

If there is one thing that Bill Gates got right and Steve Jobs did not is collaboration. And it is because Bill Gates knew how to collaborate and leave enough money on the table for others that he became the richest man in the world and Steve Jobs did not. And it is also because [...]

We are happy to report that at Fon we have raised $9.5 million in a C round. Our current valuation which unfortunately I can´t disclosed has been the best valuation so far. This does not mean that we were not hurt by current market conditions which are pretty bad for start ups (Fon was founded [...]

Following a tip from one of my readers (thanks Daniel!) I just got Apple’s Os X Leopard running on my Lenovo PC laptop, that same laptop that first got me into Ubuntu and then Mac, after it suffered a major crash while it was running Windows. Now thanks to the fact that new Apple computers [...]

Dopplr, the service that to allows you to share your future travel plans with a group of friends, has finally come out of beta and is now open for anyone to join. The company, in which I invested, officially launched at Le Web in Paris, the conference organized by my friend Loic Le Meur (almost [...]