Portugal telecommunications country report

Posted by guille on Dec 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments Portugal telecommunications country report Thumbnail

I have recently published the Portugal Country Report for Analysys Mason, where I present an overview of the fixed and mobile telecommunication’s market for the given country.
It has been a long affair of research, reading and getting up-to-speed with the Portuguese telco market. It has been a long affair mainly because it has been made [...]

Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments

Posted by guille on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments Thumbnail

We wrote this article for the Analysys Mason newsletter, Communiqué, for the February release.
Femtocells are an exciting technology that is getting more and more important. After several launches – Sprint and AT&T in the US, StarHub in Singapore and Softbank in Japan – Vodafone UK has started the first European deployment the 1st of July, [...]

New look – Update your RSS!

Posted by admin on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments New look – Update your RSS! Thumbnail

Please, update your RSS by clicking here. The old ones will work for a while, but might disapear at any moment. Thanks!
Well, it took a lot of time, but eventually here it is: The new look of my blog.
To be honest, it was mainly a gift for my wife. She wanted to start her blog [...]

Problems with video in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Posted by guille on May 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments Problems with video in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Thumbnail

I have just updated Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron  in my laptop. It is cool, works just great but has, as every new software, a few glitches developers will have to take care of.
One of those problems is that I am having problems at the moment reading AVI files. Some players got frozen or where displaying [...]

Implementing Backup for a home network

Posted by guille on Oct 10th, 2007 | 0 Comments Implementing Backup for a home network Thumbnail

Backups are one of the least beloved activities in computing. Few people like to do backups, and thus they don’t think about doing them.
My motto is, if you think you should do a backup, it’s already too late. And lately I am thinking about doing a backup, so I’m concerned.
In order to implement automatic backups [...]

Le futur de Facebook

Posted by guille on Oct 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments Le futur de Facebook Thumbnail

Une copine m’a fait lire un article qui donne son avis sur le commentaire de Steve Ballmer, actuel patron de Microsoft:
“I think these things [social
networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a
faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.”
Malgré le manque d’estime que j’ai pour cet homme, je [...]

Problemas con el router Comtrend 536+ de Telefónica

Posted by guille on Jul 25th, 2007 | 3 Comments Problemas con el router Comtrend 536+ de Telefónica Thumbnail

¡Ha sido duro! Toda una odisea… pero ¡lo he conseguido!
Tras muchos días de pelea con Telefónica, lo que debía haber sido un simple translado de línea y ADSL se convirtió en un translado de línea sin baja oficial en la base de datos, eliminando toda posibilidad de dar de alta el ADSL en mi nuevo [...]

LDAP in companies with evolving structure

Posted by guille on May 3rd, 2007 | 0 Comments LDAP in companies with evolving structure Thumbnail

I am by no way an expert in LDAP, but I have been working with this technology for already a few months.
As I’ve commented in other posts, I am working in a company with thousands of users and I’ve been participating in the definition and assignation of users to groups and roles. Of course, being [...]

Ghost software and other stories

Posted by guille on Apr 21st, 2007 | 3 Comments Ghost software and other stories Thumbnail

As I said in other posts, I am now in an important insurance company taking care of the organization of users in functional groups for the LDAP server. This allows me to be in constant contact with the managers of all the main application the company’s business is based on, the main majority of [...]

Authentication puzzle, a real-world example

Posted by guille on Mar 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments Authentication puzzle, a real-world example Thumbnail

I am working now for an insurance company with more than 25.000 employees and with offices  in such exotic places as South-America, Hog Kong or Bahrain.
Of course, such important company has a complicated and intricate structure. Companies that depend of companies that  are controlled by companies that are dominated by a big holding that keeps [...]

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