Today Apple Computer launched the iPhone and decided to drop the “computer” out of its name. I guess that as it entered the world of mobile phones computer was not the appropriate way of naming Apple. Nokia however, who kindly invited me for a panel in NYC with Om Malik and Steve Boom, from Yahoo, when they launched the new N Series phones a few months ago, told me that we should not refer to the N Series phones as phones since they were NOT phones but ….computers.

I guess this is what happens when two giants enter each other fields. So what´s next, Nokia Computer and Apple Connecting People?

I just read the news on Reuters/Yahoo that the USA entered Somalia with an AC 130 plane and bombed the village of Hayo because there was “at least one Al Qaeda suspect”. The result? Reuters sources says: “I understand there are many dead bodies and animals in the village”.
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I was reading the bio of Nancy Pelosi and what impressed me was that she is a mother of 5 kids who only really started working when her fifth child became a high school senior which happened in her late 40s and in less than 20 years became the most powerful woman in politics in the States. Yes, I know she had all sorts of connections but so do a lot of other people and frankly I think it is an amazing merit to start a career so late in life and to make it to the very, very top. She is a hope to all those women who are having kids in their 30s and think that their career is destroyed forever.

In this video I show a self propelled jelly fish stranded at the beach in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay.

Being rich is great until….you run for political office. Regardless of whether you are in Argentina, as is the case of my friend Francisco de Narvaez , or anywhere else in the democratic world, being rich is generally seen as an obstacle for political candidates.

Why is being rich a handicap even for people like Francisco de Narvaez, who are not running conservative campaigns aimed at favoring the interest of the top earners?
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