As part of NetworkWorld’s 20th Anniversary celebration, they have featured an interview the the father of multi-protocol routing, William (Bill) Yeager. For those of you who don’t know him, Mr. Bill Yeager was the researcher at Stanford credited with the invention of the router. It is appropriate that we discuss the evolution of the multi-protocol […]
In a PC World article, Google has released details that it bought a 5% stake in AOL for $1 billion. This deal is now pending SEC approval. So instead of Google possibly loosing AOL advertising revenue to MSN, it saved it by buying into AOL.
AOL decided to continue using for an additional five years […]
Ah yes, the Philippine Internet is now 12 years old. An event was sponsored by the Philippine Internet Commerce Society at the Makati Sports Club to mark this event. Speaking of marc, he gave a talk on Search Engine Marketing in this event which I wished I could have attended.
Anyway, I got hit by […]
Notice the top posts report generated with performancing data on the bottom part of my right navigation bar? I subscribed to a service called performancing metrics and used their free REST-based web services API to generate that nice report on the side. I created this simple class for interfacing with their web service.
<?php
class Performancing {
[…]
I read an article on techcrunch about a new Web 2.0 application that provides Instant Messaging and Online Storage features called Goowy. It makes me wonder why mashup an instant messaging and an online storage service? Communicate, Organize, Share — is Goowy’s tag line. Share! A moment later I realized that this system can […]
CTIA Wireless 2006, the most important consumer wireless show of the year, is just around the corner. This year’s CTIA wireless conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 5 - 7. That is next week!
The CTIA Wireless 2006 blurb:
In the past two decades we have seen the mobile phone transform from […]
As the week moves along, Skype’s woes do not seem to stop. First, we have them dragged by AMD into Intel’s Anti-trust case about giving preferencial treatment to Intel. Next, we have the Skype-Streamcast rowwhere Streamcast threatens to sue Skype over rights to a particular peer-to-peer technology.
Now, the morpheus makers are finally suing Skype for […]
In an Ars Technica article, it shows how users can take a sneak peak at Google’s new search interface. Here is how to do it:
The steps are as follows. First, navigate to google.com (or whatever Google search server you use, e.g., google.co.uk). Second, paste this string into your address bar, and hit enter (and ignore […]
A recent slashdot posting pointed me to an article entitled “The New Wisdom of the Web“. The article is interesting because it suggests that we are in the midst of a new dotcom wave. This time the driving silicon valley-types are hyping up user-generated or community-generated content. The article suggests that these sites:
… are […]
In an article posted in MobileMonday, it discusses the release of a new high-speed Wireless LAN access technology called 802.11n. The IEEE has started discussions on this standard. However, folks do not seem interested:
“[802.11n] would require a hardware forklift for most folks, including us, where we seem to be able to deliver adequate performance for […]
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