I have been thinking about Naked DSL ever since the story about FCC is about to grant Bellsouth naked DSL petition broke a few days ago. And of course, the subsequent suspension of various states decision by FCC. Most propongates of IP Telephony considered Naked DSL as absolutely neccessary to get VoIP adoption. Afterall, why […]
Tag: Technology
Yahoo! Creative Common Search Engine
Wohoo! Yahoo released a Creative Common Search Engine! Actually, this isn’t the first. Creative Commons actually also developed their own search engine. They mention it is based on Semantic Web (yah!) at ETech last week. But Yahoo! probably has the ability to reach more people and bring awareness to Creative Commons. Now, all eyes is […]
Mobile Gadget Form Factors
Russell has a very good article about all the different mobile gadget form factors. I like the diagram he has particularly as it is a fairly good summary of all the form factors we seen so far. We already see devices that ‘transform’ itself to multiple form factors. For example, the Motolora MPx or Nokia […]
End of e-Mail as we know it
via CNet These results alone should be enough to convince us that we’re approaching the end of e-mail as we know it. The schemes are critical pieces of the technology that should be adopted by any site or company that depends on the reliable delivery of their outbound e-mail or the protection of their brand […]
How to save the Internet
via CIO Amoroso of AT&T believes that the fundamental security problem is that during the past decade, and quite unintentionally, the network’s intelligence has migrated to the edge…He thinks AT&T can make a ton of money off this idea: Return control to the network providers (like his own company’s phone system in the 1970s, he […]
ETech Day 2
Few more things I picked up at ETech Day 2 a) James Larsson, power hacker, showed some amazing hacks he done. Some stuff he did is amazing (and pretty dangerous!) Like turning his old CRT into a mouse trap (8Mb AVI :-) He delivered the whole thing in such a funny manner that everyone was […]
ETech Day 1
Here are a few things I picked up on ETech Day 1 a) Daniel Hillis from Applied Minds demostrated some video clips with very cool user interface they developing. Looks like a huge LCD/Plasma on a table, it is able to display map, zooming in, out, pan and flip through ‘layers’ etc very intuitively. And […]
etech and Mac Mini Cooper
I am now in San Diego for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I bang into Marc Canter on my way to the registration. Marc is the co-founder of Macromedia but he is really more well-known as a “connector” – he is a social animal who literally knows everyone! We spoke a bit – need to get […]
Mobile Dating Sim
Looks like Mobile Dating Sim has reached in China (via xinhuanet) 记者日前了解到，曾经在年轻人中风靡一时的饲养电子宠物的游戏如今已有了“升级版”——用手机养“虚拟情人”成了现在最流行的一种玩法。有专家指出，这类游戏的流行不仅会损害女性形象，让人将感情培养功利化，更严重的会影响游戏玩家的身心健康和人格发展。 Mobile Games like 口袋情人 [Pocket Lover] (typical Japanese dating Sim) and SMS Games like 宠物情人 [Pet Lover] is getting popular in China and experts are concern about the social effects of such games on youngsters. These games don’t come cheap either – the […]
Singapore overtakes US to lead Global IT Report
Wohoo! (WEF Weblog) Singapore is the world’s top economy in exploiting global IT developments, according to the world Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005. The US ceded its top spot and dropped to fifth place, while the Nordic countries continued their impressive track record. Asia performed extremely well this year, as did Estonia, South […]