A few months ago, I wrote about my experiences with online calendars, such as those from Google or Yahoo. Back then, I was hoping to eventually get some easy synchronization between Outlook and the online counterpart, other than by export/import. Well, it looks as if shortly after Google announced its calendar, companies started to build [...]

If I were Google’s searchmaster, I’d be reading all day what people enter into the search field. In fact, I’d be surprised if the Googlarians didn’t store every single search item and use it for the better of humanity. Or their company’s own stock price. Either way, I sometimes get a tiny glimpse of what [...]

This past Saturday, I participated in a WDR 5 broadcast about Web 2.0. The format is called Profit and touches on all kinds of business aspects. This time, anchor Frank Wörner and I talked about the new Web 2.0 bubble (if it is one), new business models, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and the Google-Microsoft battle. If [...]

The paranoia continues. I mean, I am all for protecting a country, its people and all the rest, but apparently the US Department of Homeland Security and its ability to screen travellers just went up a notch. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives just issued a statement that highlights the details about those regulations at [...]

It’s quite interesting how Microsoft made more and more inroads into my personal life. The last barrier (or is it?) just fell last week, when I switched my mobile from a Sony Ericsson P910i to an HTC TyTN. And with that, my year-long Symbian OS liason, which started in the days of the early Palms, [...]