Archive for January, 2007

The Rebirth of Philippine Internet Exchanges?

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Inquirer.net has this scoop on the proposed Low-cost RP Internet Exchange called PHOpenIX.
The Philippine Network Operators Group (PHNOG) and the Advance Science Technology Institute (ASTI) of the Department of Science and Technology have started setting up the Philippine common Internet exchange, dubbed PHOpenIX, according to PHNOG founder and APNIC Pty. Ltd. training officer Amante Alvaran, […]

Apple iPhone and LG KE850: The Tale of Two Phones II

Friday, January 12th, 2007

After getting sued by Cisco systems on the iPhone trademark, looks like Apple might get sues again. Here is an article last December 2006 on the LG KE850 which is rumored to be an Apple iPhone preview. Now we know it is all true.

From the few details available the KE850 appears to be based on […]

Cisco Sues Apple on the iPhone Trademark

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Here is a story from Ars Technica entitled Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark. Yup. Cisco sues Apple on the iPhone trademark.
Cisco has sued Apple over the iPhone name, a day after media reports suggested that Apple was licensing the name from the networking giant. Cisco acquired the trademark “iPhone” in 2000 from InfoGear […]

Apple and its iPhone: The Tale of Two Phones

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

The news is all over the place about Apple’s new iPod turned phone running MacOSX and with Tablet-like functionality. Personally, I love the concept of breaking off the mobile phone mold and moving into a new way of doing mobile phones. It supports a nice new button-less and stylus-less interface in the spirit of the […]

Key Component of Philippine Financial System Out by Q3 2007

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Finally, our financial system will get a big boost with the introduction of a Credit Bureau. This is on the back of congress passing the Credit Information Systems Act. Here is the scoop from Inquirer.net.
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said a centralized credit bureau would likely be put in place in the third quarter […]

Furr Web Referrer Analytics Engine in Need of Testers

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

A group of my students (Gretch Santos & Steph Ng) are in need of bloggers willing to test their new Web Referrer Analytics tool called Furr.
We are a hosted Web analytics service. FURR. stems from a thesis entitled “Integrated Web 2.0 style HTTP Referer Analytics”. Our philosophy is to enhance your web analytics experience. We […]

Norwegians are the world’s most avid texters?

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

According to this article from textually.org. it says that Norwegians are the world’s most avid texters with 1,000 SMS messages sent in 2006 (4.6 billion SMS messages for the entire year).
According to Aftenposten, Norwegians are the most enthusiastic users of text messaging in the world, sending 1,000 SMS per person in 2006 - or three […]

More Vishing Coverage: Voice-over-IP Under Fire?

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Here is an IT obeserver article entitled Voice over IP under threat which talks about the potential problems of Voice-over-IP. The article describes a number of theoretical problems. However, what really stands out is the phishing example.
Let’s imagine a scenario that could become commonplace in the near future: A user has an IP telephony system […]

Desktop OS Wars: The 70 Percentile

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I just read an article on the Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses. The author gives a nice little summary on the realities of the desktop market. The top four (4) reasons are stated below.

Install Base
PC Vendor Support
Hardware Support
Software Support

These are all valid reasons and they are all factored in when people make […]

Out-of-the-Box Open Source PBX Packages

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

The main issue with the Asterisk Open Source PBX software today is that it is fairly complex to configure and that there are a lot of components to integrate with before you can get a fairly decent working system. The original answer to this was Fonality’s Trixbox package (which is currently at version 2). Originally […]