Testing a new iPhone app

Un délice…

Via, via Amuses bouche
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Jean
Born on december 11th
You can reach him at jean [à] chevillat.ch (until further notice I am his personal digital manager)

To celebrate this event I bought a new camera,… and I am now looking for ressources on photography (even “101″)! Any link is welcome…

This blog is running version 2.7 of Wordpress now… upgrade was amazingly easy like always.

Some Upgrades to Technorati.com
Today we’ve made some significant enhancements to Technorati.com [...]

No shit ? They are still working on Technorati ???

Seriously… this post to test the newly installed Wordpress 2.7-RC 1 (yeah I know just a release candidate)… new admin interface is awesome! might be a bit disturbing for those that have not followed what is going on there :-)

I love it when some new technology appears in tv shows. Is not that a good sign ?

It has happend to Telepresence in 24 as well, and since I work for Cisco I spotted a few shows that use our IP phone (part of our Unified Communication product line)…

Via The Mobile Tagging blog

Press release: Atmel, Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Collaborate to Support a Future Where Any Device Can Be Connected to the Internet

Atmel® Corporation, Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) today announced the availability of uIPv6, one of the world’s smallest open-source, IPv6-ready protocol stack, which could enable every device, no matter how limited by power or memory to have an Internet Protocol address.

Why do I blog this ? Well… Cisco’s office in Rolle has been heavily involved in that with two co-workers working on that project. Cool stuff…

On a side note, I am currently reading this: The Internet of Things

ReadWriteWeb: Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC (via mfavez on twitter)

[...] Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, has decided to switch the District’s 38,000 employees from the installed Microsoft Office suite to the Web-based Google suite [...]

This news comes only a few weeks after Richard Stallman (GNU founder) warned about Cloud Computing… Guardian: Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman:

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control, it’s just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenceless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

Well an US government agency is using US company infrastructure… so far so good.

Should “cloud computing” becomes trendy, and it will, I wonder how non-gov companies are going to address that privacy issue and I wonder if Washington state would have done the same choice if Google was not an US company ?

1.5 Million G1 Mobile Phones Pre-Sold:

The G1 won’t officially be available until October 22. [...] Reports are in that up to 1.5 million G1 devices have been pre-sold and you can bet that more will be coming in.

With that, Motorola is building a 350-persons Android team and Nokia is also around (though they have to take care of Symbian as well)…

It is going to be interesting… an open-source OS with an appealing development environment,… time to investigate further this Android thing!

Read also: 11 ways Android will kick the iPhone’s ass