Archive for 2005

By all counts, this has been a phenomenal year, the one where broadband transformed from a fast pipe to a fully viable platform. A platform that if leveraged properly can become a new engine of innovation and growth. We saw the revolutionary impact of the fast… Read More »

Dirk van der Woude, my unofficial correspondent from Netherlands, just emailed me an interesting link from Planet.NL’s news service. Peter Olsthoorn, editor of the news service went to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (by some counts the world’s largest IX, last month they broke the 100 Gb/s… Read More »

Update: I am with Mark Evans on the complexity of the blog systems. He and I are not alone. Paul Kedrosky is having problems as well. In my case, we had some problems which have resulted in comments from last two days to vanish! Others have… Read More »

It has been quite a year, and while I am not ready to take stock of the year as yet, I am thankful for five things that hit the market in 2005. Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro headphones, to make iPod sound even better.… Read More »

Japan is enjoying a broadband boom, like never before. According to information released by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, there were 21.43 million broadband subscribers in Japan at the end of September 2005, up from 17.65 million at the end of September 2004. The… Read More »

What that orange icon really means and does? The unified feed theory defined by The uber geeks. Read More »

11.56PM: In case you were wondering, no I did not get lazy, or keel over. Instead, I was busy with the server transition. We have move to a better and cleaner “apartment” so to speak, thanks to our server land-lords, RackSpace, and hopefully have put… Read More »

Camino Update Released

Camino Browser version 1.0b2, the latest edition, is up for grabs and has some security fixes. It uses the same code-base as Firefox 1.5, so you are getting Mac Style Mozilla goodness. Read More »

Towards Nearly Free Voice

Rupert Murdoch says voice will soon be free, and so does eBay’s Meg Whitman. And even if you laugh of these non-telecom types procrastinations prognostications as wisdom of the novice, there are signs that they may not be that off the mark. Especially if you are… Read More »

Google’s AdSense Under Pressure

From scraper sites, to click fraud to trojan horses, looks like the most profitable money making mechanism, aka AdSense might be facing some tough times. Paul Kedrosky predicts that the situation will come to a head in 2006 sometime. With some estimating that in certain categories click-fraud… Read More »

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