I have a fun time reading various predictions for 2007, e.g. Wired, Wireless, Funny, Google and Information Week. Some sample includes: – Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. – Google GDrive will finally be […]
Tag: Technology
IPv4 Address Usage
Happy New Year As we start on a new year, lets look at the 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report The current (jan 1st, 2007) figure for 2005 is 175.52 million addresses. Together with adjustments for earlier years, this brings the total addresses available to almost exactly 1.3 billion, down from 1468.61 million a year ago. […]
Submarine fibers in Asia
We are slowly recovering from the disaster submarine fiber cut due to the earthquake in Taiwan. It is definitely one of the worst I remember…the last time a fiber cut affect us that badly is in 1994. First, lets clarify a few misconceptions: submarine cables are not under the seabed. It is just lay across […]
Making money from virtual money
Saw this on slashdot today: Chinese student arrested after making 150 million yen selling items for online RPG Wang Yue Si, 23, came to Japan on a student visa in April 2004. He started selling items such as weapons and currency for online games through an Internet auction site in April this year, without obtaining […]
WiMAX … where it is headed?
It is a strange morning to wake up and to read the following two news: – Lack Of telecom infrastructure drives WiMAX adoption in AP; and – WiMAX Will Not Dominate in the Short-Term, Analysts Say. Arent analysts fun? One say “Yes yes, WiMAX will grow in AP” and the other say “No no, WiMAX […]
Internationalizing the Internet
A couple of news caught my attention today. With the impeding Microsoft IE 7 support of IDN, the industry has renewed its interest in IDN. Already, CircleID is buzzing with articles on IDNs in the last couple of weeks and various commenters noted that IDN registrations is expecting to go up. Look no further, it […]
Nation-wide Free High speed WiMAX for United States
A few months ago, a friend (who requested to rename nameless) forward me a website called M2Z. It was already covered by GigaOM, and Tom Evslin. It was a application for 20Mhz of spectrum on the 2.1Ghz (2155-2175Mhz), nation-wide to roll out a free high speed broadband wireless access in United State (see their application). […]
Indonesia BWA Spectrum
Two days ago, the Indonesian regulator issued an interesting whitepaper: Penataan Spektrum Frekuensi Radio Layanan Akses Pita Lebar Berbasis Nirkabel (Broadband Wireless Access/BWA). You can download the PDF here but it is all in Bahasa Indonesia. The whitepaper clarify a lot of confusion over the spectrum plan in Indonesia (from 1.5Ghz to 10.5Ghz) as well […]
Singapore Number Portability
A few days ago, IDA called for bids to operate the centralized number portability database for Singapore. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) issued the Request for Proposal on the Centralised Number Portability Database Solution (RFP) to invite interested ICT companies to submit proposals for the provision and operation of the Centralised Number Portability […]
Gmail Mobile App
I am a fan of Gmail as well as the Gmail mobile. I use it extensively to check my mails on my mobile phone. The mobile web portal Gmail has is clean and fast and I like it alot. I also use the POP feature of Gmail to retrieve the email onto my mobile phone […]