Finally found some time and catch up some news. Some of the news that matters to me enough for me to forward them around. – ChinaPay Allies With International E-payment Partners – YeePay Partners with Dang Dang for Online Marketplace – PacNet introduces @irPower – (Malaysia) WiMAX tender evaluation is now on Oh yea, I […]
Tag: Technology
Investing in WiMAX?
A question I got quite often lately that is particularly not easy to answer. The first thing to establish is what do the person mean by WiMAX? Because there are actually two kind of WiMAX, Fixed (802.16d) and Mobile (802.16e). The former is often used in point-to-point links whereas the latter is a point-to-multi-point configuration. […]
Ten things I hate about you
Trying to catch up with my RSS but I am going to point out the talk by by James Enck at Telco 2.0 called : Ten things I hate about you. Some of the ten things he mention arent new, stuff many people including myself have blog about in the last two years but heck, […]
Copper wire as fast as fiber?
A bit late but still interesting enough to repost here: Scienists found a way to squeeze more bits onto the copper that it is as fast as fiber. See Copper wire as fast as fiber? The group hopes that the answer will be found in the use of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) to boost DSL […]
On Iridum
Just posted a comment on BeyondSG (George Yeo blogs there btw) regarding Iridium. A Porsche for $750 bucks. Re-post here for archive purposes. I done a due diligence on Iridum for a banker in 2002. It was already pretty interesting back then. Iridium went backrupted in Aug 1999 and in Nov 2000 was bought out […]
Wifi Skype Phones
Just bought these babies…couldnt wait to blog about them. They are the standalone wifi skype phones from SMC and Netgear. Yep, standalone, ie no need for PC to work. In other words, I can use them in any hotspot. Yeah!! Original I thought Netgear and SMC are from the same manufacturer as reported in Gimozo […]
Google buying Youtube
Market is buzzing with rumours that Google is making an offer for Youtube for US$1.6B. As of last checked, there are over 800 news article similar to the one on International Herald Tribune: The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall […]
Predatory Pricing
Someone posted a comment about Predatory pricing on my previous entry on VoIP. The premise is that Predatory pricing to gain monopoly is only a myth and mainstream economists have already rejected Predatory pricing theory. Read The Myth of Predatory Pricing if you are interested but in short predatory pricing is economical irrational. Selling below […]
Johannesburg…
I got the most interesting speaker gift this trip: Flexopower, a portable solar battery charger for mobile phone made by a company in Johannesburg. I havent got the time to play with it but it sound pretty cool. Hey, now I can continue to make phone calls under the hot sun! I also visited a […]
Forget about FTTH
I spend quite a bit of time with Veni Markovski and his wife Elana here in Johannesburg. Veni shared a very interesting story about Internet situation in Bulgaria. There are hundreds of ISPs in Bulgari. Most of the ISPs are small, serving a few block or two. The service plan is 100mbps or 1Gbps broadband […]