Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Technology, Telcos on Nov 27th, 2007
Verizon announced today that they will open up their wireless network to outside mobile handsets, devices and applications by the end of 2008.
They plan to publish technical standards for the development community by early next year and any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the Verizon Wireless network.
Verizon is calling […]
Posted in Education, Technology on Nov 12th, 2007
I think this is a great move by Electronic Arts. The original version of the SimCity computer game will be donated to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC’s XO laptop.
Don Hopkins, the man responsible for the original multiplayer Unix port of […]
Posted in Business models, Technology on Oct 24th, 2007
Google appears to have punished large scale blog networks and similar link farms, where each site in the network provides hundreds of outgoing links on each page of the blog to other blogs in the network, in some cases creating tens, even hundred of thousands of cross links. In many of these cases, including AOL […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Technology on Oct 21st, 2007
Information R/evolution, another excellent video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University.
The narrative brings us from the times of catalogs and shelves to the revolution of links and universal ubiquitous information sources that is Web 2.0. We are the real links to information.
The first video of Wersch’s view of […]
Posted in Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
Well, nobody knows for sure. But the rumors just keep growing.
After an earlier report that HTC is building the phone with initial shipments set to hit by the “end of 2007″ and globally in 2008, now there is a new report confirming that HTC “will ship about 50,000 cellphones running on a mobile operating system […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Media, Social networking, Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
I don’t watch much TV other than news and a few sporting events but I am always amazed at the way different media continue to converge and be used in ways that were not even imaginable a couple of years ago.
The next episode of CSI:NY to be aired next Wednesday and known as CSI:NY does […]
Posted in Mac OS X, Technology on Oct 6th, 2007
The number of students using Macs at university campuses continues to grow.
At Princeton 40 percent of students and faculty are currently using a Mac as their personal computer as compared to only 10% of Mac users on campus 4 years ago . A similar trend is seen at many other colleges: Dartmouth is up to […]
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