My first month with the ZTE Open and Firefox OS
Now that the “totally democratic” ZTE Open is about to be released in the U.S. ($80 unlocked at the ZTE eBay Store), I can reveal how truly cutting edge I am. I bought a ZTE…
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Mr. Jobs – a revolutionary who embodied the American dream – design was his weapon
The Steve Jobs story has something for everyone. He was a revolutionary who embodied the American Dream; design was his weapon. He was a self-made man whose success came from building products, not by gaming…
Humans in Jeopardy!?
Watson’s easy victory against the best humanoid Jeopardy! players in the world has prompted completely opposing visions of the future. One version is Terminator around the corner: self-aware machines enslaving the human race even sooner…
Three strategies for open source deployment
I’ll be presenting my short paper on “Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse” at the Open Source Systems 2010 conference this May. I wrote the paper because I see a…
A little love for Kraków over at SiliconValleyWatcher
Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher did a nice writeup on our Kraków, Poland presentation. Hopefully, the momentum will continue to build for Kraków as a technology hub in Central and Eastern Europe. As always, the Kraków…
Open source deployment paper to be presented at HICSS
Update on the open source ‘miracle’ paper: It has been accepted at the HICSS 2010 conference track on Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Content, Open Access and Open Communities. The paper now features the more sedate…
Krakow, Poland: A technology hub for Central & Eastern Europe
After spending July in Krakow, Poland visiting companies, startups, and universities, I am truly impressed with the Krakow tech scene. Together with a colleague at Cisco Systems Poland, Ramon Tancinco, I have put together a…
Open source platforms: An information systems ‘miracle’
In partnership with the Department of Technology at the City and County of San Francisco, I’ve been studying the deployment of new applications using open source. We looked at three projects (including the recoverysf.org site),…
Fulbright scholar in Portugal, 2010
It’s official. I’ve been named a Fulbright scholar during my 2009-10 sabbatical year. The host country will be Portugal, specifically the Azores islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. At the University of the…
Announcing the exciting new “You belong in tech” campaign
Tech is back, people. Two huge reasons: Tech is still innovating big-time. Thanks to innovation, tech-centric industries (software, networks, online, services), and closely related industries (electronics, telcos, digital media, entertainment, gaming, tech consulting), are going…