Skype just launch their 2.0 beta which comes build in with Video support a week ago. From their FAQ: * Best ever call quality. * One-to-one video conversations with anyone, anywhere in the world. * Contact list grouping – organize your Skype contacts anyway you like by creating groups for ‘colleagues’, ‘friends’ and ‘family’,etc. * […]
Category: Technology
Thinking about AJAX
I remember attending Supernova last year and there is this small company demostrating a little web-based Email client they developed which looks and behave like Microsoft Outlook except it runs on a browser. After a very boring presentation which shows us nothing what Outlook cannot do, I remember Marc Canter finally not so politely shoo […]
30 years of personal computer
My Dream Machine..when I was a kid Arstechnica has an article recapping the 30 years of personal computer history. (via Slashdot) Very nice article with photos of old computers (oh gosh, how I missed them…) and also market share chart!
Google Analytics
I installed Google Analytics on several of the blogs I managed. So after collecting data for a week, it gave me some nice charts and one of them look like this: Pretty cool but I was wondering why I am getting so much traffic from pbs.org. So going through my logs, I discovered one of […]
Virtual Property
Just saw this news on Slashdot A gamer who spent £13,700 on an island that only exists in a computer game has recouped his investment, according to the game developers. The 23-year-old gamer known as Deathifier made the money back in under a year. Wohoo!
What if…
Everyone knows “wireless” has been the catchphrase in this decade – cordless phone, mobile phone, laptops, wifi and moving forward, wimax, uwb, etc etc. Wireless isn’t just a multi-billions dollar industry, it is has also change our way of life. But I am sure we have friends or families who tell us how they feel […]
Is P2P TV Legal?
I have a great morning at work! I am feeling the same excitement I had two year ago when I first started working on VoIP except this time is on another technology. As a matter of principle, I dont blog about my work but just wanted to spread the joy :-) On another topic, I […]
Neustar and .GPRS
Ever since Neustar announced they signed a deal with GSMA to oversea global database for the mobile operators last week (see also Washington Post), there are many debates about the deal online. “Neustar, a company that should certainly know better, has announced that they’re going to create a .gprs TLD to serve the mobile phone […]
Peer to Peer TV
It is finally here – Peer to Peer TV known as PPLive. One of the biggest challenges in traditional IPTV is how to distribute to hundreds of thousand or millions of viewer at the same time (imaging “broadcasting” HDTV to 500,000 people @ 400-600kbps unicast stream and you’ll understand the bandwidth challenge). Multicast works but […]
Do not what you not wish on yourself
Many people have complaint about the FCC lately. Jeff Pulver during the blogger panel said he rather see FTC incharge instead. This is a big contrast compared to just barely a year ago where Michael Powell was a keynote speaker. In fact, there wasn’t even a town hall session this VON. Where is the love […]