Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Photos from Barcelona

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Ola from Barcelona! After may blogless days, here is something to check out in the meantime. This is our final full day here and we are just winding down catching up with some office work here in a nice quite Cyber Ice Cream Parlor that plays technofusion (yuck!) music. I believe we have had our […]

GSMA Mobile Innovation Forum: In Search of Innovation

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Innovation comes from strange places. It is something people search for and rarely find. Sometimes, they are the product of resources and access. Other times, they are the product of pure genius. And at times, they are just the product of plain ole luck. No matter where innovation comes from the mobile industry has been […]

Death of DRM

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Digital Rights Management (DRM)’s biggest and most successful supporter is now advocating its removal. Apple Inc’s Steve Jobs has released a statement in their corporate website on Apple’s support for a DRM-free online music ecosystem. Here is some food for thought.
In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over […]

Open Document Format Wins Round One

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Some people may say that this move by Microsoft to release an ODF converter is definitely in line with their embrace and extend tactics. They go further to claim that this should not be considered a win for Open Document Format (ODF) supporters. Here is a scoop from Ars Technica.
Microsoft today released the final version […]

Search Neutrality: On Going Battle for Net Neutrality

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Here is some good GigaOM coverage on the on-going Net Neutrality debate. Looks like carriers are definitely setting their sights on Google and bring out the big guns (and funds). The weirdest arguement is shown below.
From there you get the new argument: If Google wants network neutrality, why aren’t they offering search neutrality?
Telco water-carrier Mike […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Major Cable Network Outage Cripples Philippine Internet!

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

No blogs for the past few days? Well, here is an email snippet describing our recent Internet connectivity-related problems.

Several International cable facilities specifically APCN2 and its secondary route - have experienced major cable breaks due to the recent earthquake in Taiwan measuring 7.2 in the Richter scale. As a result of this, […]

Fields of Gold

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Here are some pictures of the gentile Sta. Barbara (A town in Iloilo Province Philippines) countryside and farm scene:
      
More pictures in this set can be found here.