Archive for July, 2006

Configuring FC5 Bluetooth Network Connectivity on SE K608i

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

I just purchased a cheap generic Bluetooth USB Device from CDR King today. I was also able to successfully use my Sony Ericsson K608i (SE K608i) as a network access device. Here is my current setup:

Sony Ericsson K608i (SE K608i). My MNO is Smart Communications in the Philippines.
Dell Latitude 510 (D510). Yep still using this […]

Happy Systems Administrator Day!

Friday, July 28th, 2006

To add to the every increasing commercialization of the world, we celebrate Systems Administrator Day today. Here is a funny and appropriate UserFriendly cartoon released in the days leading to Sysadmin Day 2002. Enjoy!

Here are some gift Ideas to show your Sysadmins some appreciation. If you have other gift ideas please feel free to comment […]

IP-based Mobile Network Operator: Skype MNO?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Everybody in the telecommunications world have been watching Voice-over-IP very closely (particularly a company called Skype). Most of the landline carriers are wary that companies like Skype and Vonage would eat into their existing bread and butter landline markets. In the US today, this is slowly becoming a reality and it is not just Skype […]

Corporate R&D: Small Ideas in a Big Company

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

I read this interesting piece from Ars Technica (via Slashdot) on the History of Corporate R&D in the United States. It raises a few points about how people see corporate R&D today. It basically answers a previous article in Business Week describing the sorry state of research in the US telecommunications industry. This topic is […]

YouOS: Interesting take on Web-based Operating Systems

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

I just bumped into another operating system called YouOS. A lot of people have been talking about making the Web the new Operating System. The folks at YouOS have created a cool experiment showing a possible look at a WebOS.
YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. […]

A Day with Plan9

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Today is another day of alternative operating system testing for me. First on the list is Plan9. This is one of those ahead of its time operating systems developed at the venerable Bell Labs. This system was started in the 1980s and was first released in 1992. So, it is a pretty old operating system.
Plan […]

Low-cost Mobile Wireless Communications

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

There is this NetworkWorld Article about a new way of doing XG Technology pushes new form of wireless VoIP called xMax. This product fills in the gap between WiFi, WiMAX and 3G.
The company says xMax can send a 3.7Mbps signal 18 miles with a directional antenna using 38 milliwatts and could provide phone coverage […]

hip2b2.yutivo.org Service Outage

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I would like to apologize for the service outage of hip2b2.yutivo.org yesterday. The web hosting account was accidentally suspended by the upstream provider due to transaction processing issues. The issues were resolved immediately but the restoration took sometime. I would like to thank RJ for staying on top of this issue. More power to RJ […]

MotoRAZR: Simply Disruptive!

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

In another case of disruptive technology at work, the Motorola RAZR has been a resounding success selling over 50,000,000 units. Yes, that is 50 million units of Motorola RAZR version 3.
However, I don’t quite understand this statement from the Motorola Website:
The RAZR is Motorola’s design philosophy made real: technology, design, and exceptional communication in one,” […]

Citizen Journalism: Trend or Hype?

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The Center for Citizen Media has a nice summary of a just released survey by Hsing Wei of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government entitled The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News. This survey gives us a deeper insight into the growing trend of […]