Jun Murai just informed IETF that Vint Cerf has won the Japan Prize for his work on TCP/IP. Congratulations! Update: With my wine adviser in Beijing and conspirator in Washington, a lafite 1986 was delivered successfully to Vint 48 hours later. Not exactly the prized 1961 but 1986 is still a classic. Enjoy!
Category: Technology
The future of Touchscreen
Phones/PDA that comes with a touchscreen usually comes with a stylus. As such, the user interface for such touchscreen devices assume you always work with a stylus. It requires at least two hand to use which means you cannot use it while walking (usually carrying a bag) or driving. There are devices that does not […]
Asia: Broadband and US: 700Mhz
I met up with Dewayne two weeks ago in San Jose. Part of our conversations are (somewhat) confidential so I won’t talk about it here. But two things I like to share here. 1. There is a general mis-perception that broadband is cheaper in Asia than US. ITU recently publishes the cost of broadband on […]
Blogging about VoIP
During coffee last week, Om Malik said to me “You haven’t blog about VoIP for a while…” We know each another when we were invited to be on the blogger panel at VON several years ago. Om, now has a blogging empire, in all business and tech (not just VoIP). I replied him “There isn’t […]
Techcrunch40
Techcrunch already has a great coverage of the Techcrunch40 event so it is pointless for me to repeat here. Beside, I was busy running around, speaking to people, catching up with old friends and making a lot of new ones and not really paying attention. So instead, I will cover a few companies I saw […]
What percent of your monthly income do you pay for broadband?
I am at Techcrunch40 (will blog about it later) but like to share this now via Phil Wolff Disparity between broadband haves and have-nots limit and focus Skype’s market opportunity. Frank Bures’ Wired magazine story looks at Internet Telecommunications Union data to compare raw prices of 100 Kbps broadband access by country. In some parts […]
Wired Nextfest
This is going to be a very long post based on the 250 photos and a dozen of Youtube clips I just uploaded.
Visit to Geni
I visited Geni.com on their invitation yesterday. The first time I come across Geni was on Techcrunch when it amazed everyone with a US$100M for a 7-weeks old company. They are founded by a bunch of ex-Paypal and eBay employees. I finally got around playing with their tool and I have to say I am […]
SMS Text News » Nokia et al: A continued diatribe
I think we all looked the other way though. What the hell was I doing buying an N95? Great phone. I love(d) it. But it’s not actually very difficult from a bog standard mp3 enabled, photo enabled Nokia 6000 series from, say, 3or 4 years ago. The picture quality is better. There’s more memory, sure. […]
.test in 10 scripts
Wohoo! Finally we getting our IDN Top Level domains :-) Update: IDN .test Root-Zone Evaluation Specifically, the Board approved the delegation of eleven evaluative top-level domains representing the term ‘test’ translated into: Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil. Following this ICANN Board approval, the delegation request will […]