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 […]
Tag: Futurist
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.
AT&T 1993 “You Will” Ads
This is amazing!
TrendMap 2007
Meng Weng send me the above trendmap that he created for his new venture. Pretty cool stuff :-)
The Next Ten Years
The next ten years in network is going to be 10x more exciting than the last ten we have. We had our first billion internet users finally after nearly three decade but over the next ten years, we going to add another (or two) billion more easily. What’s significant is the additional billion users will […]
New technologies, new lens
Be afraid said Businessweek (via VoIP Watch) The big mistake many people make with new technologies, from personal computers to the World Wide Web and, most likely, VOIP, is to compare them with existing ways of doing things, and then–big surprise!–they don’t measure up. Yet already, more than 22 million people, plus 70,000 more every […]
Who is going to build a Stupid Network?
I posted the following on a Stupid Network discussion over at Isen’s blog. — On the industry aspect, the role of a pure ISP (ie, the middleman that provides IP connectivity only by procuring infrastructure from a telco) is already dead by 1996 to 1997 when the telco woke up to the idea of Internet. […]
How to think like Leonardo…
How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci (via Dewayne-Net): In business, it’s important to employ ambidextrous employees — people who have business and technology skills. For they can imagine the future. If you don’t employ multi-talented professionals, you lose out on business oportunities that cannot be imagined by the linear worker. Yep, how true! It […]
Busan Day 2 – Emerging Spam
Yesterday, the speakers have more or less covered almost all the current antispam techniques, I wonder if I should repeat them again for my talk today which will probably makes it pretty boring. Or should I do something else and make it interesting…so I did the latter :-) Since my session is ‘Emerging Technologies’, I […]
Ericsson closing down THE Bluetooth unit
Does this means the Bluetooth is dying? (via isen.blog) Ericsson is pulling the plug on its technology licensing unit, the wholly-owned subsidiary which invented Bluetooth wireless technology and became the driving force behind the company’s Bluetooth initiative. Or does that means they give up collecting royalty for Bluetooth and therefore, drive more adoption of Bluetooth? […]