Posted by Avi Telyas on Jun 28, 2010 in
Korea,
Technology Visited Ulsan, Korea for KSCA (Korean Supercomputing Center Alliance) workshop.
Was quite impressed with UNIST building and environment. Recently opened, UNIST is trying to Foster Elites in Science and Technical Fields . Even more interesting is, that ALL lectures are planned to be given in English.
Some Photos:
For more, go to my Flickr UNIST set
Posted by Avi Telyas on Dec 2, 2009 in
Technology 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.
Tags: Fail, Korea Times, Windows
Posted by Avi Telyas on Oct 6, 2009 in
Technology,
WiMAX It always amazes me how a webpage can look so wrong, but still deployed for everyone to see.
Something wrong with WiMAX Forum website:
Posted by Avi Telyas on Aug 21, 2009 in
Technology,
WiMAX 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?
Posted by Avi Telyas on Aug 11, 2009 in
Technology 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?
Posted by Avi Telyas on Aug 11, 2009 in
Technology 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.
Tags: Code Jam, Google, Quebec
Posted by Avi Telyas on Apr 13, 2009 in
Android,
Technology 
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.
Tags: Google, iPhone, Nitobi, Phonegap
Posted by Avi Telyas on Dec 12, 2008 in
Business,
Technology,
WiMAX 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:
- Samsung – I don’t expect Samsung giving up on WiMAX, as it is their beachhead into the Mobile World outside Korea
- Motorola – More difficult to predict, but if I have to, my guess is MOTO will also get out of the WiMAX business.
Posted by Avi Telyas on Nov 13, 2008 in
Business,
Technology 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
Posted by Avi Telyas on Oct 20, 2008 in
Business,
Technology 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