I’ve been told about this interesting open source project (article in Spanish) with La Fonera. It consists of an alarm that is activated via an RF emitter (of the kind that are used to open garage doors) and sends an SMS to a mobile number of your choice.
It can be useful for elderly people in [...]

Jordi from Fon alerted me to this project. As a sailor with an equal passion for alternative energies I loved it.
The Zero CO2 project’s objective is to sail around the Mediterranean using clean energy. The yacht is powered by an electric motor driven by a hydrogen fuel cell. It also uses renewable energies (solar, [...]

American politics is at its worst when it is mixed with God and/or Sex. Here´s a new scandal that combines both (plus my native Argentina). America, please grow up.
As a congressman, Sanford voted in favor of three of four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, citing the need for “moral [...]

At Fon we created a simple tool that is a real time search engine. We call it Unfolding News, URL www.unfoldingnews.com. Unfolding News is a search engine for unfolding stories. We did it as an internal tool but now it´s online. We created it to see what people thought about [...]

Andorra is the country with the highest life expectancy in the world. I did not know this when I recently had dinner with the country´s Prime Minister, Albert Pintat. Andorra is small but it´s not the Vatican. It has 80,000 very well off people with a GDP of close to $3bn. [...]

Read this from CNET. Now see how the stock is doing right now.

Here are the stats on market share. And here on traffic. They are not totally consistent. But they give you and idea. I do not know if the internet traffic off iPhones is a combination of WiFi traffic and mobile network traffic. I suppose so.

The British have a way with words; they appointed Tom Watson, the man with the most unoriginal name, to the most original job: minister of digital engagement. Good news is that Tom Watson loves open source.

…is that what´s bad about America can be overruled by what´s good about America. I recommend that you read this article on how the Obama admin is changing the pro-torture policies of the Bush admin.

The country that has produced the world’s cheapest car is now saying that it will produce the world´s cheapest computer. Now, being familiar with the OLPC project, and knowing how hard it is to produce a $100 computer, I can´t believe that anything other than a calculator can be made for $10.