Confide

The security on mobile applications continues being a big question for me, mainly due to the lack of security. I found Confide, which lemma is: Spoken words disappear after they’re heard. But what you say online remains forever. With confidential messages that self-destruct, Confide takes you off the record.  

Applications’ obituary

With the time, all have used applications that fall into a situation where you leave them or you cannot use anymore. Below is my particular obituary of applications. 1.- Personal use: I used to access to Google reader, and not it’s closed. I had to find an alternative (Feedly, 2013). Now I have seen that my … Read more

Mobility cannot be sold as stand alone solution

Mobile applications for corporations is a complex business. The decisions are being taken into so much perspectives and the situation of each company also has a big influence on it. The real question is not how to sell mobile solutions, the right question is how mobile solutions are purchased. Connectivity and web access, some years … Read more

Secure Telephony

BlackPhone is a smartphone designed from the bottom up, specifically for privacy. I see some reasons about why this will become a trend. People taking more care about their privacy. Companies trying to preserve IP, and commercial activities. The use of platforms as Whatsapp or the use of social networks, continue increasing, and there are … Read more

Eat your own dogfood

I was reading an article about Jeff Bezos and it contained a link to this article from a ex-amazon employee now working for Google. I find it very interesting, starting from the culture differences both companies have, going them through some complexities that SOA represents for the big corporations implementing it, and finally a very … Read more

Transportation Management Systems

Very nice reading about TMS  solutions on 2012, that I would like to remind: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1BU762M&ct=120827&st=sb For warehouses http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-19H83DZ&ct=120229&st=sb

What google knows about you

The love-hate relationship I have with Google made me to do a list of where it is, 1. Location history If you work with Android, check that you are not transferring data. It could be the case that your phone is sending data about your location, times, speed, distances done, etc… maps.google.com/locationhistory 2. The whole … Read more

SOPA & PIPA

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by … Read more

"Just google it" is not enough

Last months I’m detecting an interesting trend from some of the young people of the team, and even from support team of a vendor. The issue is with regards to the approach used for solving support problems. In a nutshell, they receive a problem, they look in google or other forums for a solution and … Read more

Linkedin changes

Interesting change of direction given by Linkedin, well the right name now is: LinkedIn Corporation Class A Co. The name is not important, the matter is their change of direction. This environment started as “the facebook for proffesional relationships” and now the it’s becoming more a place for hunters, HR recruitment… I imagine they were … Read more