Trapizzini are born!

00100 pizza & trapizzini
via giovanni branca, 88
Testaccio, Rome
Monday – Saturday 12:00AM – 10:00PM
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When in Rome, “pizza a taglio” is the typical street food that you’ll find at every corner. Pizza a taglio in Rome is an art and Pizzarium (via della Meloria, 43 Rome) is where this art is best delivered by its master: Gabriele Bonci.

But, now, I am glad to announce that a new street food is born and it is super: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Trapizzini’s!

00100 is the name of a new place in Testaccio where, beside an excellent Pizza a Taglio, you will find Trapizzini. Read the rest of this entry »

When in Rome eat as the romans do…

Even though the old “adagio” goes: “when in Rome eat as the romans do”, do not expect anymore to find them eating amatriciana & carbonara every day.

Despite the recent right-wing party success at the national and municipal election held in April and the consequent raising sentiments of intollerance directed to immigrants and clandestines, the Eternal City is little by little being conquered by new culinary tendences represented by an unexpected appetite for Indian, Japanese and Middle East cuisine. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone in Italy

Quoting its own press release: “Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.”

Also this morning Telecom Italia has released the following statement: “Telecom Italia announced today it has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Italy later this year.”

No doubts that we’re talking about the 3G iPhone.

Still remains to understand:

1) when? (end of June?)

2) locked or unlocked?

Investigations are in progress…

Iphone Q4 2007 Growing Market Share

Quoting Seth Weintraub article: “During last week’s Enterprise/SDK Event, Steve Jobs and Co. took a few jabs at the #1 Enterprise smartphone maker, RIM. Here’s how it went down.

During the first few minutes of the presentation, Steve Jobs showed the U.S. SmartPhone Marketshare from the big manufacturers.

RIM 41%
Apple 28%
No one else even in double digits. Apple isn’t too worried about Windows Mobile or Symbian at this point. This is Apple vs. RIM.”

This is, at the end of the day, the trend I’ve predicted in my last post written last Dicember.

The new mobile era

What are the implications of the introduction of the iPhone in the mobile phone industry? What is coming next with the introduction of Android, the Google sponsored Alliance’s next open source Linux based mobile OS?

Well my own humble prevision is that the devices are going to be commodities as are today PC hardware (with the exeption of the Mac platform) and the battle will bend on the software side with only two possible models:

1) Apple iPhone and few other proprietary OSes (Blackberry and Windows Mobile for the business world, Symbian instead will be doomed by the iPhone on the consumer market);
2) Open source Mobile OS as Android or other Linux based OS fully available to the consumer and business users.

Android in particular will grow in the next years essentially in that segment of the consumer market left available by the iPhone price positioning (below $ 150) contributing to increase Symbians difficulties to follow the increasing innovation provided by such devices as the Gphone & iPhone.

If you don’t need an advanced phone for business purposes as a BlackBerry or a fancy looking gadget as the iPhone you can always swith to a basic phone for less than a 100 bucks and install Android: you will obtain a fully enhanced device for much less than the currently over priced 500 bucks Nokia N95 !

PS: take a look to this article published on Mon, 12/17/2007 .

Touch screen phone device

I’m wondering why, still today, with the availability of information introduced by the Internet, producers are offering mocking cellphones and consumers are buying them. Last night I had a pizza with my friends after our Thursday night soccer match.

This is a nice way to restore our friendship after 90 minutes of tough match where we battle diveded in two teams. So during our Pizza I couldn’t miss to observe one of my fellow companions’ brand new cellphone: the HTC Touch.
Well for almost the entire dinner this touch screen device was the main attraction and topic.
Frankly how can a lousy imitation of the iPhone, over priced (it is sold in Italy at 546 euro!), and featuring Windows Mobile 5.0, can attract the interest of tech-savy people as my soccer teammates? Read the rest of this entry »

Leopard is here to stay!

Finally it’s here! Today, October 26 at 6 PM the Roma-Est Apple Store has opened its doors and a rush of people, including me, are allowed to finally enter and grab a copy of Leopard Mac OSX 10.5.

In a few seconds the store is crowded and peple are rushing to cash registers. Less than 15 minutes later I’m on my way home with the only intention to install my brand new copy of Mac OSX on my iMac from which I’m actually writing this post after an easy and smooth installation of Leopard.
Now it’s time to enjoy and discover each of the new 300 features available.
So everything is well and I’m ready for a long week-end with Leopard.

Cheers

Special Leopard launch event on October 26

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders.

According to what an Apple employee has told me this evening, a special Leopard launch event is expected on Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. (no matter the time zone) at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Soon an Apple press release should confirm this news.

Leopard is going to be sold for a suggested retail price of $129 (US)/€129 (euro) for a single user license.

See you at the Roma-Est Apple Store soon!

Open Colonna: menu a la carte

Antonello Colonna has introduced a menu a la carte in his new restaurant OpenColonna. It is an interesting menu with the best of his cusine including a very competitive wine menu with some great bottles at a very decent prices.

Have a try.

But remember that, during working days, at lunch you can always ask for the daily menu at the special price of 15 euro.

Buon Appetito.

Open Colonna, just another try.

Yep, even today I lunched at Antonello Colonna’s new restaurant in Rome named Open Colonna and based within the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

As mentioned in my previous post the formula is quite amazing: 15 euro for a complete menu including first and second course, dessert, coffee, water and wine.

Actually there’s no menu a la carte: there’s only the menu of the day where you have can choose between 2 available first course, 2 available second course and 2 dessert.
For example today’s menu included: hand made gnocchi with pesto e ricotta cheese or a cereal soup, veal with green peppers or small cuttlefishes, panna cotta or cheese cake.

Ingriediends are fresh and genuine. Eating is a pleasure also for your eyes due to the exciting architectural feature of the building where the restaurant is hosted.

Antonello Colonna is spending most of his time doing PR or chatting and meeting collaborators in order to get things get going: the new adventure is just at the beginning and he has a lot of suprises in his chef hat!