Malaysia launched the latest 5 year IT masterplan called MyICMS 886 last week. Sound very much like Korean IT-839 with adjustment for Malaysia environment. Anyway, do check it out!
Tag: Technology
Thinking about AJAX
I remember attending Supernova last year and there is this small company demostrating a little web-based Email client they developed which looks and behave like Microsoft Outlook except it runs on a browser. After a very boring presentation which shows us nothing what Outlook cannot do, I remember Marc Canter finally not so politely shoo […]
30 years of personal computer
My Dream Machine..when I was a kid Arstechnica has an article recapping the 30 years of personal computer history. (via Slashdot) Very nice article with photos of old computers (oh gosh, how I missed them…) and also market share chart!
Google Analytics
I installed Google Analytics on several of the blogs I managed. So after collecting data for a week, it gave me some nice charts and one of them look like this: Pretty cool but I was wondering why I am getting so much traffic from pbs.org. So going through my logs, I discovered one of […]
Virtual Property
Just saw this news on Slashdot A gamer who spent £13,700 on an island that only exists in a computer game has recouped his investment, according to the game developers. The 23-year-old gamer known as Deathifier made the money back in under a year. Wohoo!
What if…
Everyone knows “wireless” has been the catchphrase in this decade – cordless phone, mobile phone, laptops, wifi and moving forward, wimax, uwb, etc etc. Wireless isn’t just a multi-billions dollar industry, it is has also change our way of life. But I am sure we have friends or families who tell us how they feel […]
Google launch Secure Wifi Access
Google is preparing to launch a Secure Wifi Access. LONDON (Reuters) – Online search leader Google is preparing to launch a wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company’s Web site on Tuesday. Looking at Google’s Wifi FAQ, the Yahoo! report may be a bit misleading. I don’t think Google […]
Scott McNealy in Singapore
Just come back from the speech by Scott McNealy and I couldn’t help comparing him to Bill Gates in July. Bill’s session was very sale orientated, lack of grand visions which was very disappointed as I expected more from the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. But back to Scott’s presentation… First, how can you not […]
More about Google Talk
I did some packet sniffing and look at how Google Talk works. 1. Google Talk is Jabber (XMPP) compliant. Here is what it send for authentication <stream:stream to=”gmail.com” version=”1.0″ xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” xmlns=”jabber:client”> <stream:features> <starttls xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-tls”/> <mechanisms xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl”> <mechanism>X-GOOGLE-TOKEN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> <auth xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl” mechanism=”X-GOOGLE-TOKEN”<(Some hash, presume Google Token)</auth> Then followed by the standard presence information etc. Interestingly, […]
Google Talk
Google just launched their Google Talk! First, I have to eat my own words – I predicted that Google will enter VoIP space focusing on their search capability but instead, they revolve it around their Gmail expanding the communication capability instead. Now, on to the good news, Google embraced Open Standard! Not only the IM […]