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I have been using Feedburner to re-publish by RSS feeds with a feature called SmartFeeds. SmartFeed allows me to not worry about feed formating and a lot of extra bells and whistles to make feed reading for my readers easier. Some of these bells and whistles include: email this, digg this, comments and others. Since, […]

There are numerous schools of thought about 20% time in the corporate world. This concept was popularized by Google. But, it has been around in mostly academic and research circles for quite sometime now. According to Google,
Google engineers all have “20 percent time” in which they’re free to pursue projects they’re passionate about. This freedom […]

Here is an interesting and funny article from RoughlyDrafted.com about the parallels of Microsoft’s Cairo and Longhorn visions. This should fill my a whole month’s Microsoft bashing quota for me.
Automatic PC sales of DOS rapidly made Microsoft one of the largest software companies of the 80s. As its market power increased, it gained a reputation […]

Looks like the Google Phone is going to be a reality and its going to be Orange. Here is an excerpt from the original Observer article.

Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange’s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart […]

eWeek has an article on the alleged sale of MS Windows Vista Zero-Day Exploits. Of course, these are unconfirmed reports but at the prices that are being quoted looks like this is a triving underground industry.
Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer […]

Linksys and other vendors have already released MS Windows Mobile powered WiFi VoIP phones in the past. Check them out VoIP WiFi SIP Phone Black, VoIP WiFi SIP Phone Sliver and Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit for Skype CIT200. Why just MS Windows Mobile? Then Belkin comes out with its Belkin Skype WiFi Phone. It […]

Here are two (2) good gift ideas for the Christmas season. Here are two (2) pictures showing the new Apple 1 GB iPod Shuffle Metal (2nd Generation) besides a 1 peso coin, 5 peso coin and a previous generation Apple iPod shuffle on top of my Dell Latitude D510 laptop.

Another really really interesting gift […]

While I was reading a newspaper in Israel, I bumped into an article (in the Haaretz) about the state of undergraduate prospects in India. The story painted a very bleak, but realistic, picture. Since, I could not find the original Haaretz article on the web here is a NY Times article on the same issue. […]

Here is an interesting article from NetworkWorld Article about the growing popularity of IP-based digital surveillance systems. The article also features a German company that uses Video Telephony over IP (use of SIP and Internet video codecs) to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed by such a system.
Video surveillance has traditionally been a closed-circuit analog […]

Finally, after a few months in the market and a lot of momentum driving it, a Flash Lite book is finally out. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy yet but I plan to get one (by hook or by crook). The book is entitled “Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices (Foundation)” by Weyert de […]