Monat: März 2004

Well, based on this article on spiegel.de Microsoft paid SCO about 10 Million Dollars, and gave the venture capitalist baystar capital the hint, to invest in SCO. It´s a clever step for Microsoft, because of the license rumours SCO had with IBM during the last months. SCO claims IBM to have used SCO sourcecode in…

Well, David Weinberger tells us, he was faster than we were – and guess what: he is right (my speed’o’meter stops at 1.2 mbit, ;-(( )

Well, I´ve just started reading the book „Everyday business is a growth business“, written by Ram Charan. And I have to say, it`s damn interesting right from the beginning. The first chapter deals with the defining of the markets, and asks what are „mature markets“. The conclusion is, that there are no mature-, there are…

well, these movies really kick ass! Thanks Joi for the pointer.

Is piracy a phenomenon of the p2p – networks like napster? I definitely is in a common way of view. But as this article on wired.com explains, there was piracy long before founders of kazaa were born.

AsThe Register reports, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom has to lower their prices for DSL connections. Since Deutsche Telekom is the successor of the former „POST“, it has got a quasi monopol on the „last meters“ to the customer. While dsl connections have raised dramatically through the last years, maybe this decision of the EU will raise…

In Joi’s ponit of view carriers should conentrate on the quality of their services – for mobile broadband (like gprs) is no need. Do you agree?

Well, while I was travelling by train this evening, I called the information-hotline of t-mobile one of europes biggest phone-companies, in order to ask for a number. As I`ve told the young lady the name of the company, our train went into a tunnel, and the connection broke – but guess what: some seconds later…

It`s a quite good article on fastcompany about important presentation technics, but i was missing something: beside cultivating your gestures, looking people in their eyes or being with the people, one important thing is to just have fun while doing your job. fu nis motivator no. 1.