Le Web 3 Conference organized by my friend Loic Le Meur is taking place in Paris this December 11th and 12th. If you haven’t bought a ticket yet, you can have a 100€ discount as a reader of my blog.  I will be speaking at LeWeb 3 but I wanted to alert you of the [...]

The second largest wireless operator in the US has recently announced it will allow the use of any device and application on its network. The American wireless market is probably one of the few in the world in which customers are not allowed to use any device with the wireless operator they have chosen. Up [...]

I have built many internet businesses and in all of these ventures the challenge is always the same: hiring the right people. And of course I am not alone in this. I know that my friends who are also active internet entrepreneurs, people like Niklas Zennström, Tariq Krim, Marc Samwer, David Sifry, Anil De Mello, [...]

Today two really interesting gadgets arrived at FON offices: a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and an ASUS Eee PC. They’re both WiFi enabled ultra-portable devices. Asus managed to pack a complete PC in a super small form factor, a device weighting just 900 grams. It’s on sale in Taiwan for about 250 euros in its [...]

Google recently published a development kit for Android, the open source mobile platform they created. Google is hoping third parties will use the kit to develop exciting new applications and is offering $10 million in total awards for the “best mobile apps” built on the platform. It’s a great idea which will probably make hundreds [...]

Spotify is serial entrepreneur Daniel Ek new online music start-up.  Before I tested it I thought that the world just did not need another online music platform but now that I am using I changed my mind.  With a really simple process you download and install their application, just like you download Skype, you login [...]

I’ve recently discovered the Newsmap application from Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton. It’s an awarded experiment in Information Visualization which displays a so called treemap of the stories aggregated by Google News. A treemap is a visual representation of data using rectangles sized and colored to graphically display the relative importance of each information. Newsmap [...]

In this video I comment on eMobile, a company building mobile broadband services supported by the latest HSDPA and IP network technologies. You can also watch this video in Youtube

Thanks to Víctor and Albert, who work at Fon Labs, I was able to unlock my iPhone. The outcome has been great. Never mind the fact that I can use the iPhone now with any operator in the world. That is little compared to the fact that now I can download all sort of apps, [...]

In this video shot at my home I show the new Apple TV and explain why the product falls so short of expectations. Apple TV is not TV. It is just a way of connecting your PC to your TV to listen to music (but sounds systems on TV are generally very poor) to see [...]