Ever since switching from Windows to using Mac full time, there is one application which I missed the most: MS Paint. Yes, laugh all you can but it is a small and allow some very simple image editing (resize, crop, cut&paste) and format conversion. Both Photoshop and GIMP aren’t really the most ideal replacement – […]
Tokyo Day 6
Woke up late – This means less time for me at Akihabara which is a mistake because PSP is back in stock! I thought, hey, I could pick it up on my way back – duh! By the time I make one round, 4 hours gone and I have to rush off for my next […]
Web musician
While many heard of Maria Schneider who produced the web-only album that won the Grammy, very few people (or at least outside the Chinese community) heard of 杨臣刚 (Yang Chen Gang). Yang Chen Gang produced a web-only Chinese album called 老鼠爱大米1 (click here to listen) which is incredibly popular in China , thanks to 网络DJ […]
Old customers are blind
Here’s a story from APRICOT: The Hitachi-cable folks who made the wonderful WiFi SIP Phones originally didn’t believe this will work. They have been trying to sell the phones in Japan but their customers wasn’t really interested. “Who wants WiFi only phones?” “my i-mode/FOMA can do more things!” “I still need to install a SIP […]
Kyoto Day 5
I survived the hectic week! Phew. And the trial went beautifully … Everyone loves it so much so that only 1 person return the phone on the last day, altho we have a long waiting lists of people wanting a set. Anyway, we will publish the results of the trial soon. APEET have a quick […]
WTF is Popular Telephony?
Andy, I like your blog but sorry, I have no idea whats up with Popular Telephony and its Peerio or GNUP. Help me out here – what exactly is the “patent-pending invention, Peerioâ„¢, defines the framework and principles for a state-of-the-art, next generation server-free IP telephony system.” (see Peerio) or where is the software agent […]
Kyoto Day 4
Took most of my morning trying to do my presentation for the evening while sitting thru Asia Pacific IPv6 Summit. Sad to say, looks like IPv6 isn’t moving here as much as we want…I guess we have to keep trying. I escaped presenting at this summit this time because I really dont have much update […]
Thinking about VoIP
My talk on VoIP at APRICOT.
Yahoo! BB Phone
Sadahiro Sato, GM of BB Phone Service Division of Softbank, gave a very informative presentation. You can find the backbone of Yahoo! BB in Japan and they have acquired Japan Telecom last year really for their backbone network across Japan. And since Yahoo! BB has 22% of the telephony market share in Japan, nearly 33% […]
No more free ST
While I am away in Japan, back home, Singapore Press Holding turned their ST Interactive into a paid service. (via MrBrown). Heck, who cares!? Obviously I don’t read ST Interactive; In fact, I seldom even read their printed Straits Time. The fact I got this news via MrBrown blog is a good indication how much […]