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Here is a story from Om Malik about a virtual currency called QQ by Tencent devaluing the Chinese Yuan.
And a genuine concern for the Chinese government, which now fears that the QQ is deflating the official yuan. “QQ” is the virtual currency created by Tencent2, China’s largest instant messaging platform based in Shenzen. Originally, […]

Here is an article from Networkworld, reporting that the US Copyright Office has declared SIM-locking phones illegal in the US. Yes guys. You heard me loud and clear. SIM-locking phones is now illegal in the US.
Late last month the U.S. Copyright Office issued rules that address this second situation. Carriers, for at least the next […]

The battle is won. Voice-over-IP is here to stay. With all major PBX vendors (namely Avaya, Nortel, Siemens and Ericsson) and network equipment makers (namely Cisco, Huawei, UTS) offering voice-over-IP based solutions to the enterprise market. It is pretty clear that the world is ditching traditional RJ-11 PSTN-like telephone systems for voice-over-IP (over RJ-45 UTP) […]

Looks like Flash is making good traction in the mobile space with Flash Lite. Even Adobe has release freely available versions for the Symbian S60 platforms (2nd and 3rd Edition).
Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and […]

Emily of Textually.org has this interesting link to an ingenious mobile anti-theft device. The product is from Singapore and it is called PhoneBak (pretty dorky name).
When a cellphone is lost or stolen and a different SIM card is inserted, the technology will automatically send an SMS notifying two numbers chosen by the owner. The SMS […]

A few months back I wrote about some ideas on getting really low-cost mobile wireless communications services off the ground with the use of VoWiFi. In a follow-up article about IP MNOs, I mentioned three (3) important ingredients in a mobile communications network: Mobile Access Network, Network Core and Handset Support. I did mention WiFi […]

Every company needs a good way to measure the ability of their people. This is especially true for service-oriented companies whose major asset is manpower. Information technology is one of the industries that heavily rely on a skilled workforce. Working in the IT industry, manpower is always in the top of my mind.
While on a […]