Just bought these babies…couldnt wait to blog about them. They are the standalone wifi skype phones from SMC and Netgear. Yep, standalone, ie no need for PC to work. In other words, I can use them in any hotspot. Yeah!! Original I thought Netgear and SMC are from the same manufacturer as reported in Gimozo […]
Category: Technology
Google buying Youtube
Market is buzzing with rumours that Google is making an offer for Youtube for US$1.6B. As of last checked, there are over 800 news article similar to the one on International Herald Tribune: The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall […]
Predatory Pricing
Someone posted a comment about Predatory pricing on my previous entry on VoIP. The premise is that Predatory pricing to gain monopoly is only a myth and mainstream economists have already rejected Predatory pricing theory. Read The Myth of Predatory Pricing if you are interested but in short predatory pricing is economical irrational. Selling below […]
Johannesburg…
I got the most interesting speaker gift this trip: Flexopower, a portable solar battery charger for mobile phone made by a company in Johannesburg. I havent got the time to play with it but it sound pretty cool. Hey, now I can continue to make phone calls under the hot sun! I also visited a […]
Forget about FTTH
I spend quite a bit of time with Veni Markovski and his wife Elana here in Johannesburg. Veni shared a very interesting story about Internet situation in Bulgaria. There are hundreds of ISPs in Bulgari. Most of the ISPs are small, serving a few block or two. The service plan is 100mbps or 1Gbps broadband […]
VoIP in Namibia
Was listening to Ferdinand Tjombe talking about VoIP in Namibia. Recently (12th May), five Chinese nationals was arrested in Namibia for using “VoIP technology”. The process was driven by incumbent operator. The interesting part is that the Chinese nationals was not given bail (when murderers and rapists does!). The telecommunication legislation in Nambia was […]
Gartner Hype Cycle 2006
Gartner just publish their latest hype cycle for 2006 and their shortlist of IT technologies to watch. 1. Web 2.0 : Social Network Analysis (SNA), Ajax, Collective intelligence, Mashup 2. Real World Web : Location-aware technologies, Location-aware applications, Sensor Mesh Networks 3. Applications Architecture : Event-driven Architecture (EDA), Model-driven Architecture, Corporate Semantic Web Web 2.0 […]
日本語.jp
Prof. Goto gave me a copy of this book last week at the APAN meeting. It is a book about the history of IDN and the long journey we took to reach “日本語.jp”. :-) I wish my Japanese is good enough to read it tho. But flipping through the book, I saw names and photos […]
VoIP in Malaysia
I havent wrote about VoIP for a while so let me try here. I suppose I could write about the Vonage, about them being sued over E911, sued for patents infrigement, sued by shareholders and the fact their share price dropped by half since IPO. The latter was kind of embarrassing for me as I […]
Who makes the law?
From Your Own Personal Internet The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill… Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works: I just the other day got, […]