I am in the airport lounge again, waiting to fly to Bangkok for APAN (Asia Pacific Advance Network). Most people probably never heard of APAN because it belongs to the world of academics but it is fairly similar to Internet2 in US. Anyway, I attend APAN once in a while when there is something going […]
Handicapping the Gap: China
In a discussion at APDIP Internet Governance mailing list, Suresh forwarded this interesting article by Thomas Barnett. The Chinese Communist Party is betting that wiring up the country is essential to unleashing the nation’s future economic potential, and they’re right. They’re also betting they can control the intellectual power enabled by all that connectivity, and […]
Phone of the Future – Newsweek
Saw this on the newsstand yesterday. Great article about VoIP industry with an excellent review of Jeff Pulver, Vonage and many others! Phone of the Future indeed. I look forward more frontpage news for VoIP this year! Speaking of VoIP, sometimes I wish we would use IP Telephony for what’s happening today. There were many […]
Not Milk
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2005 Top 10 trend according to Fortune
Top 10 trend in 2005 according to Fortune. No. 1 on the list is blogging :-) Read the excellent article on Fortune which has pretty good summary of what’s happened in the blogosphere last year. In a related news, Seth discovered the guy behind Think Secret (which is now been sued by Apple) is a […]
Off to Bali
I am off to Bali for a quick trip. The purpose of the trip is to look at the proposed venue for APRICOT 2007 (yes, 2007 ;-). Speaking of APRICOT, 2005 will be held in Kyoto late next month. I haven’t been back to Kyoto since my honeymoon two years ago and I been looking […]
GM Blog
Take a look at GM Fastline Blog, a brand new blog by a senior management of GM, Bob Lutz, and look at the traffic and comments on the site! (via Loic). I glance at it quickly but one comment stands out: Very impressive Product Strategy !! I think your competetion is not going to like […]
More on Software Patents
Remember my rant about Software Patent few months back? Dealing with ‘non-bogus’ patent are tough, especially if it is held by non-OSS-friendly company, like Microsoft. (Microsoft have huge patent portfolios btw, but so far, they have not use it aggressive against competition yet). This is where we need a ‘Cold War’ in software patents – […]
Where did the .ORG money goes?
A friend pointed me to the latest Internet Society budget for 2005 :- ISOC is expecting PIR (ie, .ORG) to contribute 3.4M to the society! Wow, thats 2-3x as much as what Internet Society gets from its membership! I think that’s pretty neat because ISOC has been in the red for many years and could […]
iPod Shuffle & Mac Mini
MacWorld just started and as usual, Steve announced two new product: iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini. iPod Shuffle, a even smaller version to iPod Mini which comes with 512Mb or 1Gb for your MP3. Sure, there are similar product out there (e.g. Creative MuVo), but hey, it is an Apple, with its ubercool design and […]