Archive for the 'Technology' Category

3Com’s New Router Offering - It Comes with an Application Stack!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Networkworld has this feature about 3Com’s new router offering that comes with an application stack that allows enterprise users to attach blade-type Linux servers on it. Yup, application stack on the network layer.
The news marks the company’s first significant product launch since 3Com veteran Edgar Masri rejoined the company as its CEO in August (see […]

The Ultimate Toilet Throne!

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Here is a really really interest piece from a VC blogger (from all the classes of bloggers) in NYC about a picture published in the NY Post. Now this is really cool!

I like the touch about the beer tap-enabled refrigerator. The iToilet is also a pretty cool accessory. Instead of a separate TiVo and a […]

Shooting Pictures in Pitch Black Darkness … with No Flash!

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Here is something from the wonderful technology wonderland of the Rising Sun. Here is an excerpt from Akihabara News.

I can assure you that you read the title correctly. Olympus offers today an 8Mpix camera supporting up to ISO 10000 to shoot pictures in pitch dark. But, switching to ISO 10000 will bring the camera down […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Return of the Big Bell: AT&T and BellSouth merger gets FCC ok

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Ars technica has this coverage of the FCC approval of the Bellsouth and AT&T merger. I covered this before as AT&T to acquire BellSouth! Return of the Bell System?. So after about nine (9) months of waiting…
The deal is done. Yesterday afternoon, the FCC voted to approve the massive AT&T/BellSouth merger. The vote came […]

Open Source Java: Not J2SE. Its J2ME!

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Sun Microsystems has finally release the GPLed source code to its Java 2 Micro Edition Platform. This is opposed to the expectations of most people which was the release of Java 2 Standard Edition. The new mobile Java platform is called phoneME and can be downloaded from this site. Here is the objectives of this […]

What is this strange world up to?

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I decided to take a break from writing long blogs and have decided to post my very first link roll. There are a bunch of interesting links on my reader that I felt the need to post them all. First off, is our list of companies doing things they don’t normally do.

Microsoft Hands Out 16000 […]

Video Surveillance Goes Digital

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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 […]