Archive for April, 2006

Verizon to Carry Flash-enabled Phones

Monday, April 17th, 2006

I read about Adobe’s Flash Lite platform during 3GSM last February. Then recently, I bumped into this article from Beta News about Verizon planning to push Flash Lite on their handsets:
Verizon Wireless will become the first mobile operator in the United States to include Adobe’s Flash animation software on its phones, thanks to a deal […]

Triple boot MacOSX

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Here is a nice article from Onmac.net on how to triple boot a Macbook. It looks weird having to dd a copy of Linux into the Macbook instead of doing a regular installation. It’s a new installation mindset for me. Then again, this is a Mac after all … “Mac == highly controlled […]

Provincial Broadband

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

I am currently in a small town called Sta. Barbara. The town is two (2) towns west of Iloilo City. It was quite a pleasant surprise to see this town having good access to Internet connectivity. On the first day, I used a regular Mozcom dialup connection. On a Globe/Innove telephone line, I am able […]

It’s a Good Day to be a Blogstar!

Friday, April 14th, 2006

My current employer, Blogstar LLC, is getting a lot of press after our hugely successful CTIA Launch Party. Check out some of the press coverage (some sites require logins) out there:

Yahoo News
DesignTechnica
Business Wire
Wireless Week
Everything Treo
Telecom Paper
… and check out Google News for more!

I am pretty excited as we have more things “Under the Hood” […]

Connectivity in Boracay

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

While my wife and I were on our way to the tropical island paradise known as Boracay, a strange sight greeted us upon arrival. Here is a picture of it (Click on it to get a better view).

(I also have another picture of the Addict Mobile sailboats and a giant Globe Balloon but I […]

Ateneo Team is among the best Java programmers in the World

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Here is a write-up by Dr. Rafael Saldana on April 12, 2006 from San Antonio, Texas, USA. Dr. Saldana is accompanying the Ateneo de Manila team in the ICPC World Finals:
The Ateneo Team “Linden BoyZ” bagged 6th place in the 2006 World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Java Challenge held […]

Stuff to Put into My Thumbdrive

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

With advent of 65-nm flash technology and the 32GB flash drive, we are studying seeing storage move to the next level. So, I would like to start a list of favorite software I would like on my flash drive.
My Portable Thumbdrive should probably contain:

Portable Firefox. This application is important for general purpose web browsing. Since, […]

65-Nanometer Flash Chip

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Intel will be releasing a new flash chip that is capable of storing much more data per square inch. This was the latest news from an article by the CIO Magazine Website. This chip will be called the StrataFlash Cellular Memory Flash.
… product used a 1.8-volt, multilevel cell (MLC) design to support 256-megabit or 512-megabit […]

Smart SPCC Patch For Kannel 1.4.0

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Kannel is a wonderful piece of open source software that allows easy interfacing with 2G Mobile SMSCs. Here is a patch from Dido Sevilla that would patch Kannel 1.4.0 to support Smart SPCC (Kannel 1.4.0 SPCC Patch). Thanks for the patch Dido.
Here is a SPEC file and a SRPM for Fedora Core 4 (FC4), […]

Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) Soon to be Law in US: Implications to the Philippines?

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) just passed the US House Energy and Commerce Committee last week and will soon be cleared by the House of Representatives as reported by CNet News.

The bill would allow the FTC to enforce standards on keeping data, and make companies appoint a head of security who would produce […]