This was presented by Roderick Randall, Senior Managing Director of Vesbridge Partners at the 21st Century Communication. First thing come to my mind: Stupid. Yes, he made good argument about the need for price differentiation but it is nothing new. Different people attach different value to the same service; that voice call to your doctor […]
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Skype Kiosk
There are a lot of kiosk around in Japan – you know, the kind where you can pay bills, buy tickets. Most of this kiosk already have Internet connection and usually comes with a handset beside it (so you can pick up the phone and get help). I suppose it does not take a genius […]
Interview with Digital Life
Last week, we had an interview with Aaran Tan (of Digital Life) in IDA. He is looking for something to write on Semantic Web so we took an opportunity to show him the Digital Content Exchange prototype. The article was published today. Overall, great article for a layman to understand Semantic Web (he removed all […]
IDC’s Asia/Pacific IP Convergence Conference 2005
I seldom attend events in Singapore because most of it are just sale & marketing event – boring. But when IDC organized an event called “IDC’s Asia/Pacific IP Convergence Conference 2005” with strong emphasis on VoIP, I thought “That’s Cool. I need to check it out”. It even promises “We are partnering with ProCurve Networking […]
IDN support in Microsoft IE 7
Wohoo! Microsoft IE 7 will have IDN support (via M.H. Blog) E 7.0 will feature international domain name (IDN) support; transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support, which will allow for the display of overlayed images in the browser; and new functionality that will simplify printing from inside IE 7.0, partner sources said. The new browser […]
ESTI ENUM Plugfest
I am helping Richard to spread the word: Dear All, We are pleased to invite you to the ENUM interoperability event, 30th May to 3rd June 2005 at ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France. The emerging technology of ENUM is attracting a lot of interest. By mapping telephone numbers to domain names, and from those to […]
JET Open Letter to Microsoft
— Original in PDF format — Mr. Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Cc: Mr. Bill Gates Chairman and Chief Software Architect Microsoft Corporation Cc: Mr. Michel Suignard Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Dear Mr. Ballmer, We, members of the JET (Joint Engineering Team), send this open […]
Perspective change
Believe it or not, I once argued on a mailing list (back in 96/97) that “Why do I want to run my voice over IP over modem over voice line?” and “if VoIP is good enough to the entreprise, why haven’t CIOs drop their phone network”. Now, it is not as if I don’t have […]
April Fool RFCs
While normal human beings celebrate April Fools by making publishing their transparent desktop picture on national newspaper, geeks publish standards like UTF-9/UTF-18 and Morality requirements for Routing. Look, geeks can be funny too! (ie, if you can understand the joke :-) Anyway, IETF has a traditional to publish April Fool RFCs and I always watch […]
The Common Sense Model
Although I missed Infocomm Technology Roadmap 2 weeks ago in Singapore (I was at ETech), the folks here have recorded the session. So earlier this week, I spend sometime watching John Seely Brown speech on The Common Sense Model. 1. Supply Push –> Demand Pull, e.g. Mass Media –> Search Driven Ads 2. New Forms […]