On Roland Garros and Federer's nightmares.

A year ago Rafael Nadal won his second Roland Garros, successfully defending what was considered by some as a lucky win in 2005. And while some might be doubting his capability and talent then, few will do so now. Between June 2006 and today Rafael Nadal has solidified his superiority on clay, winning an all-time […]

ZFS for Leopard according to Schwartz [video]

That Leopard would support Sun Microsystems' ZFS was known for several months, since a screenshot from an earlier α release of the upcoming version of OS X was leaked late in 2006 showing support in the Disk Utility. At the time of that leak, several developers reported that 10.5 did not support ZFS as its default filesystem, meaning it could not boot from it or use it for the system partition. Well, now it can. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO claims that ZFS is going to be the default filesystem on Leopard replacing the ageing HFS+ Journaling. Great news for the Mac and further proof of the value that Open Source software adds to commercial products. [P.S.: Schwartz's video is quite interesting for FOSS and Sun customers too. I'll have to revisit the topic of Sun Microsystems and its relationship with Open Source in an article some time.]

Forthnet, η ελληνική Free;

Πριν από 6 μήνες έγραφα για τη παραπλανητική χρήση του Triple Play, που αποτελούσε βασικό θέμα της διαφημιστικής καμπάνιας της Forthnet. Η εν λόγω διαφήμιση έβαζε ‘λάδι στη φωτιά’, σε μια αγορά όπου η πρόσβαση στο διαδίκτυο παραμένει ίσως η προβληματικότερη στην Ευρώπη των 27 και τροχοπέδη για την ‘Κοινωνία της Πληροφορίας’, ή όπως θέλει […]

Some of the biggest companies in the world have tried and failed

Siemens, Philips, Fujitsu. The iPhone is coming and Jobs' prediction for 1% of the global market within 2008 seems so detached from reality it's not even funny despite it coming from the Worlds_Best_Used_Car_Salesman. What I kept from this article by The Reg is the quote above. The mobile phone market is huge and very lucrative and over the years had practically every single electronics giant in the world giving it a try. Many of the best ones failed and merged (viz. Sony Ericsson), others just gave up (Siemens). Can Apple make it? Update: The new iPhone Ads are impressive, although the expectations are very high too.

Unlimited!

Yahoo! Mail unlimited storage is here.

Yahoo! Mail just started providing unlimited storage space for free to all of its users making good on their promise. Yahoo! seems to have invested quite a lot to Mail! (contrary to Microsoft which more or less hung Hotmail out to dry) and offers an amazing alternative to Google's Mail. If you haven't used the new Yahoo! Mail yet, now you have another reason to do so.

[Update: Microsoft just announced its new Windows Live Hotmail with 2GB of storage and a new AJAX interface. Sadly for them, it sucks.]