The Blogger Panel was a smash – they schedule it as a main session rather than a breakout session which means we have much more audience than last year. Andy was a great moderator and my fellow panelists didn’t hesitate the take any questions, even the tough ones like why are we qualified to be […]
Category: Technology
Google launch Secure Wifi Access
Google is preparing to launch a Secure Wifi Access. LONDON (Reuters) – Online search leader Google is preparing to launch a wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company’s Web site on Tuesday. Looking at Google’s Wifi FAQ, the Yahoo! report may be a bit misleading. I don’t think Google […]
VON Day 1
I spent most of my time at the Communication Policy Summit. The most exciting session got to be Lawful Intercept session, with speakers from Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation explaining why they need CALEA and they did a great job. Unfortunately for them, their opponents John Morris and Brad Templeton did an […]
VON 05 Boston
VoN Bloggers Roundtable
Just arrived Boston to participate in the VoIP Bloggers Roundtable at VON. This is my 3rd time in Boston and I really like Boston; No, really … of all the places I being to, Boston is one of the few cities I dont mind to settle down. Back to VON, the panel on Tuesday evening […]
Scott McNealy in Singapore
Just come back from the speech by Scott McNealy and I couldn’t help comparing him to Bill Gates in July. Bill’s session was very sale orientated, lack of grand visions which was very disappointed as I expected more from the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. But back to Scott’s presentation… First, how can you not […]
Its all about Numbers
Two news from IDA regarding numbers and numbers :-) 1. Public consultation on Number Portability (pdf) IDA intends to review the implementation for number portability for fixed line and mobile telecommunications services in Singapore. The review is in with IDA’s policy objectives of promoting competition in the infocommunications sector to benefit of consumers and businesses […]
More about Google Talk
I did some packet sniffing and look at how Google Talk works. 1. Google Talk is Jabber (XMPP) compliant. Here is what it send for authentication <stream:stream to=”gmail.com” version=”1.0″ xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” xmlns=”jabber:client”> <stream:features> <starttls xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-tls”/> <mechanisms xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl”> <mechanism>X-GOOGLE-TOKEN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> <auth xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl” mechanism=”X-GOOGLE-TOKEN”<(Some hash, presume Google Token)</auth> Then followed by the standard presence information etc. Interestingly, […]
Google Talk
Google just launched their Google Talk! First, I have to eat my own words – I predicted that Google will enter VoIP space focusing on their search capability but instead, they revolve it around their Gmail expanding the communication capability instead. Now, on to the good news, Google embraced Open Standard! Not only the IM […]
APAN Day Zero
Someone left a comment asking me what’s APAN or Asia Pacific Advance Network. It is a meeting where AP network researchers get together to discussing advance networking issues and also a place where Advance Research and Education Network (AREN) (and also the GRID lately) people gather to discuss network collobration. SingAREN is the representative for […]