Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Apple iPhone: Can’t Receive SMS Problem

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Yes, there are some lemon iPhones that don’t allow you to receive SMS messages. Yes, you can’t receive SMS message in your iPhone. After a bit of playing around with the unit, it really feels like BETA quality hardware. Lots of little issues left and right. Oh well. Maybe their new version will be better? […]

Computer Math with Big Numbers

Monday, August 27th, 2007

As programmers, we are used to dealing with lots and lots of numbers. Most of the time these numbers are quite small and manageable. Something they get really large and ugly. We create all sorts of programs to deal with these giants numbers collectively know as BIGNUM. Why do we need them? There are extreme […]

Conquering the Apple iPhone

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

It really pays to work for a company that provides room for creative investigation and experimentation as a matter of corporate principle. This way we get nice toys to play around with. A few weeks back our very first Apple iPhone arrived. Okay. A lot of people were enamored by its good looks and cool […]

The Third and Fourth Screens - The 1st JesCom Media Convention

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I just did a presentation discussing the developments in both the Internet and Mobile space. My presentation was entitled “The Third and Fourth Screens”. This conference is sponsored by the Jesuit Communications. It is called The 1st JesCom Media Convention. Here are the details.
This August, Jesuit Communications, Inc. will be holding its first media […]

The 4G War: Will There be True Convergence?

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

In the past few weeks, we have seen a lot of activities in the WiMAX space. A lot of countries are signifying their intent on launching WiMAX networks [1][2][3][4][5][6]. A lot of these are even on track to launching WiMAX this year. Even the big manufacturers like Intel and Nokia are releasing WiMAX gear soon. […]

Xerox Patents User Profiling by Web Traffic Analysis

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

This time is am not going to discuss the merits of this patent. However, I am going to talk about how utterly cool this project is. New Scientist has this article about a new Xerox patent covering technique to recover demographic information like your age, sex and perhaps even your income by analyzing the pattern […]

Verizon Uses VoIP Patent to Cripple Vonage: What Does It Mean for the Rest of Us?

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

In a clear case of ganging up on the newbie, incumbent telecommunications provider Verizon is using it IP portfolio to beat down VoIP golden boy (but losing money lately) Vonage. Vonage has made a new business out of convincing customers to replace their existing costly landline services with a voice-over-IP (VoIP). This, of course, directly […]

Estonia: The World’s First National Internet Election

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Here is a scoop from News.com via Slashdot about the world’s very first Internet election and it will be in former Soviet Baltic State of Estonia.

The Baltic state of Estonia plans to become the world’s first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet next month–with a little help from […]

Indefinite Suspension of PC Magazine Philippines: It was Good While It Lasted

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Here is a press release from Hinge Inquirer Publications about the indefinite suspension of PC Magazine Philippines. I got this from an email to the contributing writers.
Hinge Inquirer Publications regretfully announces the indefinite suspension of publication of PC Magazine Philippines under our aegis effective February 2007.
Despite being the number one tech magazine in the […]

Comcast “Nearly” a $1 Billion Telephone Company

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

You heard me right. Comcast is a really large cable TV service provider in the United States. They are also on their way to hitting the $1 Billion mark in terms of telephone-related revenues. Here is the scoop from GigaOM.
OK, they’re not quite yet to the $1 billion mark, but the $955 million yearly phone […]