Hossein Eslambolchi CTO/CIO of AT&T shared their “Miracle”, literally speaking. Based on an AT&T lab research work to index video and voice, it offers a variety of interesting application, such as indexing movie clips and allow searching of a word/phrase said in a TV programe. Or indexing a voice conference and search segment of the […]
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SHA-1 broken
From Bruce Schneier: SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their result SHA is a US standard hash function which is used […]
Eat your magazine
New Scientist has an article about a Chef who loaded fruit and vegetable concoction into a printer and loaded edible papers made of soybean and potato starch and then print out images he has downloaded from the web. And Cantu’s ideas go much further. He plans to cook steak by using a hand-held laser to […]
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 – […]
Looking for Power outlets
Have you been in situation where you hunt around for power outlets? (via Slashdot) Every day, millions of people are finding themselves scurrying about in search of wells of electricity they can tap so their battery-powered mobile devices can remain mobile. Dependence is growing on laptops, cellular telephones, digital music players, digital cameras, camcorders, personal […]
DoCoMo achieves 1Gbps in 4G trials
From Telecom.com The operator said the 4G equipment employs variable-spreading-factor spread OFDM radio access and multiple-input-multiple-output multiplexing techniques, achieving 1Gbps data transmission with 100MHz bandwidth in the downlink. DoCoMo said it achieved 100Mbps and 20Mbps data rate transmission in the downlink and uplink respectively in outdoor tests moving at speeds of about 30km/h.
Bluetooth Virus
Oh yea, I caught a bluetooth virus on my trip thru Malaysia. We were stopping at a small town in Malaysia for food and drink when my N-Gage notify me of an incoming bluetooth message. I rejected it (suspecting foulplay) but it just refused to go away until I click ‘Ok’. I did and a […]
IPv6 migration problems
Last year, I blog about a problem with Microsoft IPv6 implementation? So after you installed the v6 stack on XP and unable to connect to 6bone for any reasons, you would also lost your ability to talk to any of the dual stack site, even though you can reach them via v4. This should not […]
Google suggest beta
Google Suggest is now in beta testing. As you type, Google will offer suggestions.. Cool stuff!
Fight Goliath
One of the common phrase we hear often in tech business is ‘Competitive Advantage’ which usually means some sort of technology/patents and/or cheaper pricing, perhaps due to new disruptive technology. Many worship the ‘disruptive technology’ story and how it would kill the market goliath eventually. But I’m convienced we’re mixing up the cause-and-effect. A goliath […]