Is this how Europe is losing mobile leadership to the USA?

In the 2000 movie The Matrix, a mobile phone model made by Europe’s Nokia, even then called the ‘banana phone‘, is used as an icon of exotic modernity.
In the 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction, actor Will Ferrell’s character is prompted by the narrating voice to make a phone call, and he starts to frantically search [...]

Open Source conquers a new adept as Nokia decides on Symbian’s future

How can you maximize the probability of excelling with your idea? How likely is that, in the long run, you will be the only one to always make the best decisions, execute them to perfection, and realize the way the future is going to shape up? Because that is what closed source is about: jealously [...]

Presenting at TechGarage ‘08

Tomorrow we will be presenting OpenSpime at TechGarage ‘08. TechGarage enables startups to meet with potential investors, in an energetic and interactive environment, where the exchange of ideas is encouraged. We are glad to have been chosen to be one of the presenters there.

Green phones are coming, thanks to Onyx, and CPS Group Italia!

We have issued a press release today, together with Blue Telephony, and CPS Group Italia, announcing their collaboration on the development of a new line of Onyx branded mobile phones, which will be based on the OpenSpime technology platform.

Blue Telephony and CPS Group collaborate on an OpenSpime based mobile phone - Press Release - [...]

A .org to explore policies and grow the community

With the launch of the OpenSpime Developer Network yesterday, and the first public version of the OpenSpime protocol, we have taken an important step to turn our vision into reality. But this cannot be achieved on our own, and as importantly it cannot be achieved without a healthy debate that goes beyond the technical specifications. [...]

OpenSpime Developer Network launches

Today we are launching the OpenSpime Developer Network, where all the coders, hackers, makers who are interested in playing with the OpenSpime protocol, and its various implementations can meet.

It is only through the creativity and inventiveness of the community of developers that OpenSpime will succeed! This is why we are excited that so many have [...]

The coevolution of open source software and hardware

Open source software has conquered the world in the last decade, and its influence has recently started to spread to how hardware is being developed. Of course hardware IS software, when you take into account that CAD has had a larger and larger role in designing circuits.

The Economist has published an excellent article “Open sesame“in [...]

Interviewed by ADN Kronos press agency

The ADN Kronos press agency’s interactive division interviewed us for their weekly segment on the Italian economy, which is then sent to 1200 television stations which air it in their news programming. The judgement of the interviewer is very positive, labeling us “a success story of an Italy that knows how to bet on high-technology”.

Conversation with Bruce Sterling on spimes

A few days ago we had the pleasure of a long Italian dinner, and of an after dinner on-camera conversation with Bruce Sterling, writer, speaker, futurist, and inventor of the word spime. Posted in parts 1, 2, and 3 online*, the video does not only talk about spimes and their meaning, but also covers other [...]

Follow our DrinkLink in live streaming

If you cannot make it this evening (on CET… it will be in the morning of today on PST), then you can follow us streaming live on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus. Right now we are transmitting a compilation of a series of OpenSpime videos, and live transmissions will start at 8PM CET (11AM PST). [...]