Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The 8th edition of the ITU Internet Reports, entitled “digital.life“, is available for download. The report was prepared for ITU TELECOM World 2006 (December 4-8 2006, Hong Kong). The report examines how innovation in digital technology is radically changing individual and societal lifestyles. ceo
Due to a new round of trackback spamming, I've decided to disable trackbacks… Trackback spamming was very low for a long time, but now it is back. I will re-enable trackbacks once this current spamming cycle is over… Note that comments are still enabled. Sorry for the inconvenience…
Cosmic Log has published a story titled Blue Origin Revealed, where you can read and learn about Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos aerospace company – see pictures and a short video of their successful maiden test flight of their Goddard rocket vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicle. It is great to see their accomplishments, especially after having met … Read more
I finished reading, actually, listening to John Battelle's book The Search. A very good book that I enjoyed very much. And listening to the actual book author is a great way to bridge the reader and author – it does add a different and neat dimension to the whole experience. I recommend this book. I … Read more
Click to enlarge …every time you sell anything (expensive) to anyone, the buyer will have “buyer's remorse“… You want this remorse to only occur after the deal is closed – you don't want to end with a case of premature remorse, which will kill your deal. This is why you must minimize the length of … Read more
Joel writes about Bribing Bloggers, and that …there's an interesting debate going on about whether bloggers should accept gifts from vendors.” … Come on… what is this? It is not for anyone to say or debate about what other (bloggers) should do, accept, write or whatever… Sure, there is an implied ethical line, where the … Read more
If you are looking into learning how to use the Bluetooth API for Java ME, you can start by reading the following two articles and source code: Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology, Part 1 Using the Java APIs for Bluetooth, Part 2 – Putting the Core APIs to Work Download the source … Read more
This is my last weblog entry for 2006, where I'll share with you some thoughts about Mobility in the year 2007… It has been almost a decade since I first realized the potential of mobile & wireless, and the impact it would have on our society. Back then I fell in love with mobile, wireless … Read more
During the month of December 2006 two very important Java ME specifications milestones were reached: MIDP3 (JSR 271) entered the Early Draft Review phase Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248) is now final release Two important specifications indeed… MIDP3 is introducing a number of interesting features, as described below; features that were really needed by the … Read more
Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2006. One of the hot mobility areas in to keep watch in 2007+ is the intersection of mobility and social software: mobile social software, virtual communities, messaging and user-generated content. Earlier this month M:Metrics published a report on user-generated content and social networking application usage as of October 2006, where … Read more