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Everyone expects Apple to announce on Tuesday a new online movie store. People and analysts seem all to be very excited by the prospects of being able to see movies on the go. Everyone also expects Apple to release a “true” video iPod to enjoy these movies at a better resolution than current iPods. Everyone? […]
I was talking to a friend about the WWDC experience, trying to convey the excitement that such an event brings to Mac programmers. At some point he asked me, so what did you learn? I started talking about how nice it was to be able to ask questions to Apple engineers who were able to […]
Yesterday I flew to Chihuahua (Northern Mexico) to participate in a roundtable about databases with Oracle and Microsoft representatives. The plane was slightly late and despite the best efforts of the organizers who got us (the Oracle Architect and myself) in a police car that raced us to the Convention Center we arrived a couple […]
Last week Apple announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt would join it’s Board of Directors. This led to all kinds of rumors, ranging from a merger of both companies to preparing Job’s succession. The fact is that this is a weird announcement. From my point of view, Google and Apple have very different views of […]
I guess that everyone within the Mac community is quite excited with the upgraded Mac models. This is quite natural as the new models improve on already very competitive machines. It will be harder than ever to try to argue that Macs are more expensive than PCs. However, I am still a little disappointed. I […]
A couple of days ago it was FairUse4WM, now it isQTFairUse6. The fact is that current DRM schemes are fundamentally flawed. Until we move to a system where the user and the content provider exchange encryption keys (asymmentric encryption), this will keep happening over and over again. Apple may be able to protect the content […]
Ten years ago, I had just joined Informix and represented the company at a customer event. I had been hired because of my web experience, and although I had decent SQL experience, I had never worked in highly complex environments. So, when a customer asked if he required a product like Tuxedo to manage his […]
You can finally download the latest episode of IT Insight from iTunes. Even with my new Mac Book Pro, it still took me a lot of time to produce it. In this episode I discuss the challenges to develop a powerful web based presentation layer to an SOA based Entrerprise Application and some of the […]
I am back in the U.S.A. just a couple of days after returning from my trip to California. This time I had to travel to North Carolina to attend an IBM Technical Sales Managers meeting. The conference has been very informative so far, as I could learn from the wisdom of people who have spent […]
After returning from WWDC I have started working on a new episode of IT Insight. I hope to record it next week in Durnham, NC while attending an IBM manager meeting. It will cover the different options available for developers and graphic designers who need to develop the presentation layer of a SOA application.