SMU, working with my group in IDA, is organizing a public lecture by Dave Farber titled “The Technical and Societal Implications of Networking” on 22nd June. Involved with networking for over 45 years, Professor Farber has provided extensive guidance and advice on areas of high performance computing, communications and IT. In the year 2000, he […]
OCED Toolkit
OCED has been talking about a Antispam “toolkit” since last year. Incidently, the “toolkit” isn’t what an engineer would normally expect: it is really more of a ‘guide’ on Antispam for regulators. After waiting for nearly half a year, I got an email from Suresh (from Outblaze) that the OCED Antispam Toolkit is finally ready.
sgblogconspiracy
It’s a big world out there with many scary conspiracies that mere mortals do not know. And in many ways, they are better off not knowing: We are been constantly monitored by The Emperor who live on the moon which is really the Death Star; Vampires and Werewolf runs all the major corporations and they […]
Communities Dominate Brands
Communities Dominate Brands by Tomi T. Ahonen & Alan Moore Actually I have not buy this book yet but I have it on my Amazon wishlist. I met up with Tomi1 last Friday who is in town to give some talks on 3G. We spend a couple of hours debating on various technology development; I […]
NGN in OCED Countries
OECD has released a report on Next Generation Network Development in OCED countries over the weekend (via ITU SPU). This introduction stick out… Even though there is no universal and precise definition of NGN at this early stage of deployment, NGN could be defined as all-IP or packet-based integrated networks. In a NGN environment, applications […]
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia comes out with a Internet Tablet Nokia 770. This is not a surprise to me but … erm, let me ask: “what’s so special about this?” Other then a better resolution, it is inferior in everyway compared to a Sharp Zaurus C3000. I know it is cool Nokia, a mobile handset maker going into […]
Quoted in the papers
It started with a SMS from my boss: “Saw your blog quoted dbs in straits times today”. And I learnt it is not such a good idea to reply “Huh?” at this point in time. So quickly, I flipped through the papers and found the article written by Grace Ng, taking quotes out of my […]
The tail wagging the dog
Remember the days you buy a CD player bundled with a free headphone? That’s just barely a decade ago. Today, you buy a headphone and get a free CD player1. This is very much like Criagslist looking to offer news or as someone said “the classified eating the rest of the papers”. How technology and […]
Interview with ST
Okay, I can come out clean now that ST has published the article on Tomorrow.sg and also the Blogger Convention. I was in a dilemna because on one hand, all of us are suppose to reply to the reporter and on the other hand, i really don’t want to appear on the local papers. So […]
DBS Phishing
There is a DBS phishing spam targeted at Singaporean mailboxes. You probably get something that look like this too: Do not be fool by it. Look at the raw email and you will find that it actually comes from hostpymes.com, registered to someone called Soria, Luis based in Peru. Already as early as last year, […]