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I am not sure if people find this strange but Microsoft might be making gaming history by promoting Indie Console Game Development on the Xbox 360 platform.
XNA Game Studio Express will be available for free to anyone with a Windows XP-based PC, and will provide them with what’s described as “Microsoft’s next-generation platform for […]

Mobilecrunch has this feature on Einstein Wireless together with Cellcast Pass FEMA Pilot Program Trials. I find this particularly interesting because I believe that the ability to broadcast messages during times of emergencies is a very important service that must be provided by these mobile network operators. In times of disasters, it is typically the […]

Emily of Textually.org has this nice blog about the use of Cellular Phones with tracing functionality on Campus.
For freshmen at New Jersey’s Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.
Of course, that is not […]

Finally, both VMWare and the Xen have agree to a single strategy and interface for providing virtualization on the Linux Kernel. This is after an open source symposium held in Ottawa, Canada last July. InformationWeek carries this story.
Their original disagreement has been displaced by a commitment to work on a solution together, says Simon Crosby, […]

I have always been a big fan of telecommuting. This is one of the major benefits of the information age: being able to do more anytime, anywhere. I believe that if a person is responsible enough he or she deserves to be given the option of telecommuting. I began thinking about this topic after […]

Carlo of Mobhappy caught an article that Sprint is committing to use WiMAX for its 4G next generation broadband network. It is currently skipping the 3G CDMA2000 phase and passed off Qualcomm’s OFDMA technology. So the folks at Sprint are trying out something new again.
Here is a snippet from the original MSN/Reuters article:
Sprint Nextel Corp […]

This has been the theme of a lot of mobile-related discussions in the past. Mobile Web is important because it is a means by which applications can make it into the mobile phone. Most people feel that in the current state of mobile web browsing the Mobile Web == the World Wide Web (WWW). Unfortunately, […]

I caught a syndicated New York Times article on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) on Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) networks. I went to the Philstar.com website but didn’t find a soft copy of it. However, it definitely is in the print version. Anyway, to get straight to the point, the article says that Voice-over-IP over WiFi (which I will […]

After years in the pipeline, the US Federal Communications Commission has finally given the green light to proceed with broadband over powerlines.

In a Memorandum Opinion and Order adopted on Thursday, the FCC affirmed the right of broadband power line (BPL) operators to provide communications services over power transmission lines provided their services don’t interfere with […]

Half a decade has passed since the dotcom bubble burst. The dotcom bubble was composed numerous technology companies with business plans that depended on web advertising revenue. However, the revenues didn’t come and thus the bubble burst. A fews years later advertising revenues came to the spot light again with Google showing the world how […]