I am now waiting for my flight to Perth for APRICOT 2006. Sitting at the Krisflyer lounge, I have a feel a bit out of place…Perhaps I havent travelled for a while. Ever since I told my boss I am leaving IDA, I grounded (myself) from any travelling. Its going to difficult for me and […]
Year: 2006
Moving on…
I probably should have blog about this earlier but I really have been enjoying the little break. Anyway, I left IDA about two weeks ago. This shouldnt come as a surprise for many. In fact, some may be wondering why it took so long? Some of you were already awared of my intention to leave […]
Net Neutrality
In Jan this year, a frontpage article on WSJ quoted Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg “We have to make sure they (Google) don’t sit on our network and chew up our capacityâ€. Both AT&T and Bellsouth also made similar statements in the same article. A few days ago, Verizon repeat their call to “End Google’s […]
Beyond The Age of Innocence
Beyond the Age of Innocence by Kishore Mahbubani A couple of weeks ago, I meet Kishore, the former ambassador of Singapore to the UN and currently the Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for some work related matter. I remember fondly of his previous book Can Asians Think so after the meeting, […]
Will you still remember what you know?
I was googling myself (was trying to look for some article I wrote on usenet many years ago) and found something else instead, an email I wrote about 11 years ago on BugTraq. Just like to ask a stupid question. Is “5 -> [0301]:24718” a hard link or is it a soft link? (sorry..i dont […]
Patently Absurb
Found this article about RIM and NTP patent lawsuit. (via Slashdot). It is so absurb that I don’t even know where to start. A few million could settle it initially become a billion dollar lawsuit. Through arrogance, blunder and bad advice, RIM’s potential bill had shot up from a few million dollars before the trial […]
Happy Chinese New Year
Update: If you are look for the 2006 ad, click here. Happy Chinese New Year! I was at my folk place in Malaysia for a couple of days for Chinese New Year celebration. No, thank goodness, no passport story that makes it on national paper like last year:P Anyway, I wanted to share this advertisement […]
Killer App for 3G
For several years, people in the telecom industry has been working over this question: “What’s the Killer App for 3G?”. Over the years, numerous applications has been tout as the killer app, the most famous one being “Video Call”, a standing joke in the industry that everyone will try to do but no one in […]
GENI Project
The GENI (Global Environment for Network Investigators) Project recently released their conceptual document. GENI is a 367M USD, 5 year project supported by NSF to build the “next generation Internet”. The document pointed out several good points about the limitation of the current Internet: • The Internet is not secure. We hear daily about worms, […]
A look at IPTV
Triple Play is a wordbuzz in the industry for the last few years, most notable by equipment manufacturers who is trying to justify why telcos and ISPs should upgrade their infrastructure to handle the demand of video or IPTV. Numerous analysis reports from the likes of IDC also predicted a huge growth in demand; a […]