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Microsoft: 1981, IBM; 2011 Nokia.
In 1981 IBM introduced Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system on all of its personal computers. It is not clear that IBM lost competitive position with this move, but of course the one that really gained from it was Microsoft. I can’t help but see some parallels between this deal and the recently signed by Microsoft and…
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Energy Roadmap 2050 of the European Union and other zero carbon proposals
Zero emissions by 2050.. . or almost. The European Union has just published the communication A Roadmap for moving to a competitive low carbon economy in 2050 (March 8, 2011). The announced objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the year 2050 in relation to 1990 emissions. According to the communication, the…
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Smart city. Business business strategy and branding of new urban developments
After commenting in previous days on the issues terminology and the components< /a> main aspects of what is called smart city, I think it is interesting to expand some information by reviewing its clear use as a marketing strategy and as an urban emblem. Business business strategy If in the previous chapter I related smart…
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tablet fashion
Almost ten years ago I had a tablet. Yes, almost ten years ago. It was an HP with Microsoft Tablet PC operating system. A cool one. I remember that at that time we took him to meetings and commercial visits. Clients and collaborators hallucinated. Everyone loved the device’s manageability, its lightness, its line… however, these…
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Hidden Cities, new UN-HABITAT report on global urbanization and its impact on health
The Program United Nations Habitat , in collaboration with World Health Organization, has published a new report on the state and consequences of the current accelerated process of urban expansion worldwide. Hidden cities. Unmasking and overcoming health inequalities in urban settings focuses on the analysis of the impact of this process on human health. The…
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The money that created the internet
My colleague sent me Manu Fernández the other day a chart where it was criticized that the money that built the Internet, the American public money for R&D, is declining. The United States, in fact, sees how its position of technological leadership is being increasingly threatened by the Asian giant par excellence, which is following…
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smart city. Beyond smart energy management and digital technologies
Continue with the theme, after From the sustainable city to the smart city. Don’t lose perspective, a post in which I probably couldn’t clarify too many things. It’s time to talk about the components of a smart city or, better, the components to which it is being associated. Although here each one establishes different classifications…
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Does the automotive sector smile?
“The automotive industry is young” . This claim was made by Michel Freyssenet, director of research at CNRS French in Valladolid on February 15, 2011 at Sustainable mobility and electric vehicle conference in Valladolid. Let’s not frown, the Chinese market is growing at such a rate that in 10 years it has achieved the size…
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From the sustainable city to the smart city. Don’t lose perspective
Smart cities everywhere. Now it’s time to talk about this. Clean slate, that new airs and new generators of discourse around the city arrive. Imaginary dreams of perfect cities in a sea of digital ubiquity where information flows perfectly, citizens connect to urban information flows to operate in real time and the web gives us…
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Summing up the green economy according to UNEP
In the last quarter century the world economy has quadrupled, benefiting millions of people. However, in the same period of time, 60% of the world’s main ecosystem goods and services, on which human survival depends, have been degraded or used in an unsustainable way. One of the latest publications from UNEP, Towards a green economy….