The Desertec Industrial Initiative

It may sound 'funny' and it may seem like an important 'green' energy project for Europe. What springs to mind, however, is not Europe's energy or the environmental importance of the project, but how and to what extent it is going to help Sahara, the place and the people that will host it.

Upstart in Ubuntu 9.10

Upstart is the ‘new’ event-based sysvinit replacement by Canonical, that has been widely adopted in the linux world ever since it first appeared in late 2006. The idea is centred around causality, that is, defining relationships that are not loosely defined by some measure of time, but by the presence (at runtime that is) of […]

On the Motorola Droid

It should be no surprise that Verizon would invest in Android, given the onslaught that AT&T’s exclusivity with the iPhone has brought to everyone, despite the fact that Verizon’s network is superior to AT&T’s, the fact that it has a number of popular handsets and services etc. And while Europe remains the place where mobile […]

Here comes the Cavalry!

Welcome Google! About a year since we first came up, designed and implemented Geo|Ads, Google just launched their own Location Based Advertising in the States. We always knew we were tiny. Some thought we had interesting ideas. At least now we know that they are not exactly bad from a business point of view either =) <div style="width: 480px; margin: auto; margin-top: 10px; "