February 2012
Fon Reaches Five Million Hotspots
Today, I am happy to announce that the company I started just over six years ago, Fon, has just passed the important milestone of five million hotspots.
Why is this important? Because while many have tried to build a large and global WiFi network, Fon has been the only company in the world to actually achieve this. No other network even comes close to us. Fon is everywhere, even in residential...
Technology Review: How Apple Can Revolutionize... →
500px / Photo "Hot Fun " by James Khoo →
Sometimes being poor does not mean being unhappy.
What happens when a country mostly gives up...
During Franco´s dictatorship Spain was a very Catholic country. After more than 3 decades of democracy, Spain is not really a Catholic country anymore. First, loss of religion became apparent with the legalization of divorce and contraceptives and the promotion of sex ed. This was followed by the decriminalization of abortion, the acceptance of drug possession for personal consumption (drug users...
Genetic Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry;... →
I am an investor on 23andme. I have also taken the test of course. What I find fascinating is that you take the test once but more and more information comes to you as the data base grows and more is known about your genetic sequence.
January 2012
A Tale Of Two Catalysts →
parislemon:
Amazon will announce their earnings later today. As I outlined in October, the results this past quarter will highlight the difference between Apple and Amazon.
Writes Tricia Duryee:
Here’s one data point: For the holiday period, Apple’s gross margin was an impressive 44.7 percent, up from 38.5 percent a year earlier. Meanwhile, analysts are estimating that Amazon’s operating...
darioschapiro asked: I´ve read your Lumia post. Let me first tell you that I work for Microsoft. You state that the lack of front camera is Microsoft´s fault. Why is that? I´m not currently on the Windows Phone division, but for what I know, the latest Windows Phone update (Mango) brought front facing camera support for any hardware. The Lumia has Mango. And, by the way, there is some hardware out...
WatchWarren Buffett and his secretary go on a tour to explain that it is unfair that he pays 17% tax on income of $60M and she pays twice the tax rate for a fraction of the income.
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Fifi cherche WiFi - Best Fon ad ever! by Belgacom
Belgacom (powered by Fon) has created an awesome campaign to advertise its fonspots. A dog called Fifi whose innate talent is to smell for wifi hotspots. In the middle of 2011, we announced the agreement between Fon and Belgacom and two months ago we reached 100.000 hotspots. Nowadays, we have 300.000,. Here you can see the video. The story would be as follows: Jean has a dog called Fifi that...
Lisa Randall and how science is on the defensive...
I just heard a great presentation by American theoretical physicist Lisa Randall at DLD 2012 in Munich. It was a fantastic talk on the challenges that physics faces and how instruments like the Large Hadron Collider helps solve them. In this talk I learned more about the inner workings of the collider and what a feat of engineering it is. There is enough material on the internet that explains...
I used to think Israel was different from its neighbors, but lately less and less so. My religion is better than yours is no formula for peace in the region. As a secular Jew I would feel so uncomfortable if I lived in Israel with a government who makes comments like this. It is also understandable how Europe, which is mostly secular, feels alienated from Israel now and USA which is mostly...
This moved me. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to “eat out”. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad about for those parents. If you don’t live in Spain and you come here and go around you would...
Costa Concordia, what I think happened
When Spanair flight 5022 had its fatal accident in which most passengers died I said in my blog that most likely the accident was because the pilots made the tragic error of forgetting to take off with flaps. I mentioned that I was a pilot myself and could see how the pilots paid for these horrible mistake with their lives and that of most passengers. As you can see then some people criticized...
Nobody in my family gives a f*#ck about TV
We are 12 people at our home in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay, many teenagers. We have WiFi, computers, tablets, smartphone, Kindles, books but no TV. And I just realized that nobody gives a f… about TV During this vacation, nobody mentioned that we should buy a TV until recently a broker said we should have one for a tenant who comes in February. A tenant could not rent a house as this one without...
Geek vs. Nerd: The Infographic →
Jose Ignacio 2012 →
December 2011
After being on Twitter
I come to Tumblr and feel like I left a football stadium and entered a theater.
Some thoughts on Christmas from a non religious...
Little kids want to believe. Teenagers don’t want to believe. We are Jewish but we are not religious. I am glad we aren’t, especially for the upbringing of my 5 children. If we had been religious Jews I could not have dressed as Santa and brought gifts to my kids at a young age. I would have missed their faces of delight, and their smiles when they knew it was me, but pretended not to...
November 2011
Inseguridad aumenta en Jose Ignacio Uruguay
Queridas Inmobiliarias y amigos de Jose Ignacio, No se si estarán al tanto que han vuelto a entrar ladrones en nuestra casa del pueblo (“La Casa del Arbol”) durante la madrugada del Domingo pasado. Ya habían entrado en Agosto, cuando la casa estaba vacía y se llevaron una televisión plasma del living y todos los DVDs que había en la biblioteca. Ahora entraron con los inquilinos...
My impressions of Nokia's Lumia 800 with WP
I am testing a Nokia Lumia 800 that I got thanks to Hans Peter Brondmo a friend at Nokia. It is a beautiful phone. My favorite hardware right now, even better than an HTC, Samsung or iPhone in terms of look and feel. One hardware drawback though is the lack of a front facing camera which is not Nokia’s fault but Microsoft’s. The Nokia Lumia 800 feels pretty solid, whatever material is made of...
Tax fuel at the pump, balance the budget, and save...
In this time of huge deficits in Europe and USA a possible solution that I see that could address deficits, CO2 emissions and energy independence is the following one:
Each country should publicly announce that whatever the price of oil per barrel is in the next decade, consumers will pay for gasoline/diesel what they now pay plus a 10% annual increase that will go to the government to pay down...