Recently, there have been a lot of noise about China tightening control on new top levels and how it could severely damper domain names registrations in China and one should make preparation for the worst. Initially, I tried to stay out of this as I know all the players behind this. But given there are […]
Category: Technology
Gmail supports Internationalized Email
Via GoogleBlog: But all that could change. In 2012, an organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created a new email standard that supports addresses with non-Latin and accented Latin characters (e.g. 武＠メール.グーグル). In order for this standard to become a reality, every email provider and every website that asks you for your email address must adopt it. […]
China’s Category of Telecommunications Services
This morning I read a catchy titled article on CircleID “China Closing the Door to New Technologies”. I was trying to make sense of what’s all the fuss is about … So I called up my friends in Ministry of Industry and Information for lunch to find out what’s going. Background The document is called […]
Updates and P2P in China
I had a crazy month traveling across Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and finally back in Singapore. It was great trip, mostly business but in between some personal stuff, catching up with ex-boss, old friends and making new ones. A great evening with Marc Canter and his family (love […]
China Surpasses U.S. in Technological Prowess
China has surpassed the United States in a key measure of high tech competitiveness. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s bi-annual “High-Tech Indicators” finds that China improved its “technological standing” by 9 points over the period of 2005 to 2007, with the United States and Japan suffering declines of 6.8 and 7.1 respectively. In Georgia Tech’s […]
Next Stop
Goodbye lands of the Vikings. Waiting for the plane to go back to Singapore for a short transit (a warm bath and change of cloths) before flying to Shanghai. See you on the other side of the globe.
Automated Content Creation (Patented)
Credit: Philip M. Parker Parker shows a book being created. Using a little bit of artificial intelligence, a computer program has been created that mimics the thought process of someone who would be responsible for doing such a study link » It will then open a Word document and export the information into Word, just […]
Impact of ICTs on the Malaysian Elections
It is a close door session and I shall respect the decision of the organizer to keep the close door discussion, which is very interesting, private. But I raise up two points at the event that I am at a liberty to share: 1. Actually the impact of New Media has being felt in the […]
Researchers say EEs have a ‘terrorist mindset’?
I respect academic freedom but once in a while, a paper got through that makes you think “WTF!?” The sociology paper published last November, which has been making rounds over the Internet and was recently picked up by The Atlantic, uses illustrative statistics and qualitative data to conclude that there is a strong relationship between […]
Phew…its done!
3 months, 27 companies & research institutions for 1 hour demo. Phew, it is finally done…smooth and well received. Not my show so not for me to talk about it here but I work with some of the most amazing companies in the last 3 months. As I was watching the 1 hour demo with […]