A journey to the Levant
Always surprising for me to find when a news site fails like this. At least the IT guy can redirect the top page to a friendlier message.
It always amazes me how a webpage can look so wrong, but still deployed for everyone to see.
Something wrong with WiMAX Forum website:
May be the wrong photo on WiMAX Forum Certification page, but if not, C-motech, a Korean company, just certified a dual band dual modem USB device with AU-KDDI logo.
C-Motech certification page indicates the board combines WiMAX and CDMA. Does this mean that KDDI and UQ WiMAX planning a joint campaign for data services?
I do not understand why Twitter does not filter simple spam bots. It appears like spam bots “ride” trending topics to offer their merchandise (or even compromising links). Every email client can filter out these simple spams, but twitter cannot?
2009 Google Code Jam is announced.
But that’s not really a reason for a blog post. In the Rules section I found the following clause:
You are not a national or resident of any of the following countries or provinces: Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Quebec, Sudan and Syria, or anywhere where the contest is prohibited by law. Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria are restricted by US export controls and sanctions programs and are therefore not eligible to participate in Code Jam. Google reserves the right to relax any of these restrictions if permitted by law before the start of the Qualification Round.
It is interesting to see Quebec (Canada) in the same list with countries that are restricted by US export controls and sanctions. Google does not offer any explanation, but I found s Google Group Discussion that sheds some light.
Phonegap is a cross platform mobile framework developed (sponsored) by Nitobi.
Phonegap uses Google groups, and provide a link from their website to the group homepage. For some unknown reason, I was required to authorize accesing adult material.
I wonder, is this a google group glitch or the Phonegap discussions are not only about iPhone/Android and Mobile framework.
As I have previously speculated here and only two hours ago, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) will cut WiMAX investment.
As I could easily guess, the WiMAX market has shrunk enough for ALU to get out of the business, thus focusing in their core business and future LTE.
Alcatel-Lucent will reduce spending on WiMAX by “partnering, co-sourcing and participating in the consolidation of the industry,” it said. Other areas that will meet the same fate include customer premise equipment, some legacy applications, and the company’s portfolio of fixed-line telecommunications products not based on the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) core.
To me it is clear that ALU will partnet with Alvarion for Mobile WiMAX, as they have done in the past with the “Fixed” WiMAX. These are great news for Alvarion as another big player is getting out of the Market; Nortel has announced the same a few months ago and partnered with Alvarion, though I don’t think we have seen the result in Alvarion’s balance sheet.
What Next?
Other two big players are Motorola and Samsung:
Had an idea of implementing Youtube Jukebox using Youtube API. The idea is quite simple, based on a tag or a search word, the application will build a playlist and play it.
Alas, someone already implemented it… back to thinking of new innovative ideas.
Link to the JukeTube
Ozmodevices , Formerly called Hstream, are trying to kill Bluetooth.
At first, their idea of creating a PAN (Personal Area Network) looked similar to what IXI Mobile did with Bluetooth. (I used to work at IXI at that time).
But, reading more, it seems they aim to substitute Bluetooth with WiFi.
Articles:
Ozmo teams with Intel to target Bluetooth – Link.
Crunchbase – Link
KDDI will launch in November a new product and service called au Box.
More information can be found in Asiajin (BTW, a great Blog) and KDDI website.
The Box is a Motorola CPE, supposedly based on KreaTV Open Software Platform.
Searched for more info in Motorola website, looking for “Open Software”, but failed to do it. Is it really open?
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