Taking an overnight flight to Japan for the ACT Seminar and will be there for a week. This is going to be an interesting trip (more about it later)…hope I can get some blogging done :-)
Category: Random Musing
Protest against broadcast flag
I couldn’t believe when I read Cory Doctorow summary of the broadcast flag Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) is proposing. Although it have rejected by the US Congress, they are bring this to FCC. The Broadcast Flag is a signal embedded in a digital television signal. If it’s set to “true,” the receiving device is […]
Determinism
Rojisan’s entry on determinism was very interesting and reminded me something about inventors and innovators. Inventors are usually brilliant people but they are also very stubborn. I suppose it is the stubbornness that enables them to perserve on despite any criticisms. Unfortunately, it is also this stubbornness proof to be their greatest pitfalls. When they […]
IP convergence eat away at voice services cash cow
Via ITU Newsblog According to the a Yankee Group survey, IP convergence is forcing European telecoms operators to re-evaluate market strategies and move away from their traditional cash cow voice services and circuit-switched networks to packet-based infrastructures. Amongst the 25 incumbent and alternate operators surveyed across 16 European countries, two thirds of operators expect traditional […]
ITU actually got (part of) it!
Today, I catched up with my blogroll (which I lag very behind due to spending all my free time on the bayesian plugin), and was kind of surprise to see this on ITU Newsblog. Public IP telephony would create a wide open door for new competitors to walk in and take away all the value […]
Predicting the future, Part 2: “local industry”
I wrote about Outsourcing in Part 1 of Predicting the future a month ago and I thought it is about time I write a sequel. So here is Part 2: “local industry”. Like Part 1, lets look at industry revolution and how railroad changed the business landscape. Railways bring people closer together and allow goods […]
Andy Grove on Outsourcing
Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, warns the danger of outsource: The U.S. software industry is about to lose jobs and market share to foreign competitors unless the government acts quickly to fight protectionist trade policies and double U.S. productivity, he said. Actually, I wrote about the trend of outsourcing in Predicting the future a month […]
ASEAN Economic Community
From Singapore BusinessTimes: The Asean Economic Community (AEC) is an ambitious plan to create a stable, prosperous and competitive Asean economic region in which there is free flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labour and a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities by the year 2020. This […]
Marketocracy
Woolstar suggested I should put my investment portfolio on Marketocracy. Marketocracy is a virtual mutual fund. Members are given 1,000,000 virtual cash to invest in stock market. If you perform well, they might actually hire you to be a fund manager! Interesting… One problem however, my current portfolio is not compliance with the diversification requirements […]
Privacy, Racism and Sexism
I have another interesting discussion with Steph and Antoin in #joiito on privacy, racisim and sexism yesterday. Yep, how much more difficult can it be? The symbols for privacy and racisim is “1984” and Rosa Parks respectively. But not many Asian could relate to these primarly western concepts.