Reported on the Sun and the Telegraph.. Looks convincing enough to me.
But you can try zooming in on this and tell me what you see? Remember to zoom…
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31Mar
Tags: google earth, Google Street View, UFO
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19Mar
Totally unimaginable 2-3 years back, but the writing’s been on the wall for a while now.
ZDnet seems to think that it makes sense.
If it does happen, would be really interesting to see it’s impact to HP. It’d probably give mySQL a lot more mileage and acceptance, unlikely to do much for DB2 even if IBM kills mySQL.
Tags: acquisition, DB2, IBM, IBM buy Sun, mySQL, Sun
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19Mar
Recently, the Straits Times called me up asking me about the NTU Stabbing incident in regards to gaming. This was the resulting story.
I was quoted in the story :
Referring to the stabbing incident at Nanyang Technological University last week, Mr Nicolas Khoo, 31, co-founder of the Cybersports and Online Gaming Association, said: ‘Such incidents happen to a minority of gamers…In this incident, there could have been other reasons that led him to do it, so why was gaming blamed?’
Nothing seems to be wrong, except that : Read more…
Tags: Gaming, mainstream media, poor journalism, SCOGA, straits times, violence, violent
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01Feb
Going to suffer from Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter Law big time. No wonder the stock markets crashed when he got elected and again when he was inaugurated. I’d (or anyone for that matter) now seriously think twice before starting a business in the United States.
Tags: fair pay act, ledbetter law, lilly ledbetter
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29Jan
I read a Gartner report just 1-2 years back that Nortel was the market leader in Unified Communications (UC). That perception seemed to hold even as I talked to people in this industry over the past 1-2 years, although the CISCO/Microsoft UC solution set was always a very strong contender for market leadership.
For a while, I thought maybe Nortel was a company that could have a strong future in UC. Alas, Avaya took over the leadership recently and that seems to have sounded the death knell for Nortel as they file for Chapter 11. Another victim of the economic crisis? Or just the overdue death of a weak company?
Tags: avaya, chapter 11, CISCO, gartner, microsoft, nortel, uc, unified communications
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17Dec
Online retail store making 600million euros in revenue for 2008 and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch hasn’t heard of it, and doesn’t want to either. I guess he’d rather focus on startups that can raise lotsa money but no revenues to show for it. Now, who has an invite for this geek to join Vente-privee.com?
Tags: Michael Arrington, online retail store, Techcrunch, vente-privee.com
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16Dec
There’s been arguments on this for both sides for a while. Generally, the idea is that when times are bad, people stay home and play more video games - which can provide hours of entertainment for not a lot of money. I think it’s supposed to be fairly recession-proof, except that in Asia it’s more of an online video gaming market still and there’s been a lot of ‘free-to-play’ games rolling out. EA gave a scare earlier on but industry insiders would know it’s mainly just EA’s problem. Sony doesn’t look too good at the moment though.
Tags: asia, ea, electronic arts, Gaming, online gaming, online video games, recession, recession-proof, sony, video games
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15Dec
Well, this was the top ten Google global searches of 2008 according to the Google zeitgeist.
Fastest Rising (Global)
- sarah palin
- beijing 2008
- facebook login
- tuenti
- heath ledger
- obama
- nasza klasa
- wer kennt wen
- euro 2008
- jonas brothers
Too bad it was not the whole world that voted in the US elections. Then again, Read more…
Tags: 2008 search results, google, obama, sarah palin, US elections, zeitgeist
11DecBeing quite a Blackberry diehard, many have asked me on my opinion on the first ever touch-screen based Blackberry, the Storm. Especially after I’ve used other touch-screen based devices like the iPhone, Samsung F480, and many other touchscreen offerings on the Windows Mobile platform. It’s a pity I was just about to start on a 50,000-word thesis on my take on the Storm when I chanced upon this review that mirrored my sentiments almost exactly. Just read it instead - except for those bits on the iPhone coz I think the iPhone sucks as a phone and I sold it on day one. I use the iPod Touch 2nd Gen instead.
Tags: blackberry storm, iphone, iPod Touch, samsung f480
08DecI was just reviewing my blogs recently and I think this is the most worthless of the blogs that I maintain.
You see, according to ://URLfan recommended by Pat Law, this blog is not even listed.
At least my highway blog is listed on ://URLfan though I don’t write on it much. And even though I don’t write on my highway blog much, it still has pretty decent traffic.
Geekonomics @ CNET Asia of course is the most high traffic of the 3 blogs I painfully maintain amidst my busy schedule. And I do make time to blog there regularly 2-3 times a week - for contractual reasons. And it’s has to be all original content, I can’t just sticky something up there - a big Juniper (tree) will probably crush and kill me.
But look at this blog. Although it has a pagerank of 4 and just crossed the 100k pageviews mark (since it’s inception around June according to stats counter ‘wassup’), it is not even listed on urlfan and I don’t spend half as much effort on it as I do on my CNET Asia blog. And at least the highway of life has been recognised with a blog of the day award before.
Briefly scrolling through my posts on this blog, most of them are either press releases or just stickies of what I’ve read. I haven’t made enough effort to create better content. (And I have to login regularly to delete the spam that chalks up to 3 figures on akismet weekly)
It’s junk, even to me. I don’t even know why you even bother to read it.
I think I should either close it down or revamp it.
Thinking.
Tags: close, lousy blog, shut down, sucks, terrible
