I spend quite a bit of time with Veni Markovski and his wife Elana here in Johannesburg. Veni shared a very interesting story about Internet situation in Bulgaria. There are hundreds of ISPs in Bulgari. Most of the ISPs are small, serving a few block or two. The service plan is 100mbps or 1Gbps broadband […]
Year: 2006
VoIP in Namibia
Was listening to Ferdinand Tjombe talking about VoIP in Namibia. Recently (12th May), five Chinese nationals was arrested in Namibia for using “VoIP technology”. The process was driven by incumbent operator. The interesting part is that the Chinese nationals was not given bail (when murderers and rapists does!). The telecommunication legislation in Nambia was […]
I play WoW, I became a terrorist
Had breakfast with Alan Levin, Esther Dyson, Veni Markovski and his wife this morning and Alan reminded us this story that was forward to IPer by Meng Wong last week. I think this has to be retold :-) First, the boring story on MSM iPod prompts airport scare in Ottawa: A suspicious package found in […]
The Castle Kyalami
Arrived in Johannesburg and checked into The Castle Kyalami outside the city. This is where iWeek is going to be held. There are wireless in the hotel but it wasn’t working very well. The hotel staff unfortunately is not helpful. So, I went around the castle and managed to figure out the cabling and […]
On my way….
It was a crazy back in Singapore. Less than 4 hours of sleep daily, running from meetings to meeting in the day time, and then chucking out reports in the evening and reviewing contracts in my sleep. Gosh, I havent even see my daughter and wife for the last 48 hours! Now, I am on […]
What is a Media?
Just remembered a conversation I had with a friend who now works for the agency that regulate the media in Singapore a few weeks ago. The debate we had is “What is a Media?”. Anyway, he holds the view that all these “New Media” stuff he heard are just nonsense, that it is nothing more […]
Gartner Hype Cycle 2006
Gartner just publish their latest hype cycle for 2006 and their shortlist of IT technologies to watch. 1. Web 2.0 : Social Network Analysis (SNA), Ajax, Collective intelligence, Mashup 2. Real World Web : Location-aware technologies, Location-aware applications, Sensor Mesh Networks 3. Applications Architecture : Event-driven Architecture (EDA), Model-driven Architecture, Corporate Semantic Web Web 2.0 […]
Website and Marketing Gibberish
I was often asked to help to look at some company. Google was obvious the starting point which would more likely than not find me the company website. Now, it is really useful that there is an unspoken practice to have a “About Us” (or somethng similar) link on a well designed company website. It […]
The players in Net Neutrality
Believe in Net Neutrality Do not believe in Net Neutrality Believe in Regulation Fair Market ThinkersBelieve there is a market failure and that government should step in to ensure fair and level playing field Bell-HeadsWant a Two-Tier Internet Do not believe in Regulation Net-HeadsWant Net Neutrality but do not want government to regulate the Internet […]
Holiday…Ha!
Today is suppose to be a holiday in Singapore – It is the National Day. Holiday..Ha! I think I had five “business” meeting today. -_-;; Lunch was fun: with a bunch of very experience technoprenuers (lots of radio guys :) who now went on to run their own company or now helping others to start […]