A Journey to the Levant
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?
Although not officially launched, Chicago has a live Xohm (Mobile WiMAX) network.
The following blog shows a live video of Mobile WiMAX using Motorola USB device and a CPE with WiMAX and VoIP.
Sprint has launched the Xohm network in Baltimore.
For information on service plans, modems and more you can refer to Xohm .
It appears that only two modems are available now,
1) For home usage, Zyxel CPE – price – 80$ (excluding taxes) with 27dbm max power and 5dbi antennas.
2) On the Go – Samsung express card – 60$, only Windows support!
A USB from Samsung will be available soon.
I will follow-up this story in the next few months; A quick search in youtube didn’t return something significant, technorati produces more infromation; More than 100 Blog entries today, including Engadget.
Just go a Nokia E71 (white one), which people claim it has the “Oligarch look”. Extremely happy with it, as it connects very well to the internet, Browser is good and has a decent music player; Already synchronized to my Exchange Server,but still could not get the GPS to properly work, but I am sure it will.
So happy I didn’t fall into the iPhone trap, i.e. having something really cool, that doesn’t really fit my needs.
A quick search found a similar (more lengthy) review by Joel (Joel on Software). He also likes it – Link.
While waiting for my flight in Hong Kong Airport, I have decided to search Google for the term “Sassoon Hong Kong”. To my surprise the first link returned is an article on the Sassoon family and Opium drug trade.
Now, it is true that Sassoon family was involved in that, and it should be condemned, but the article “smells” of Anti-Semitism and belongs to White Nationalist (Racist GRoup). Quite appalling!
How do I complain to Google about this? – Link is not provided as I do not want to promote them.
I am attending the WiMAX Forum Member conference in Macau, held in the amazing Ventian hotel.
Will post some photos in the near future. This place is busy! and definitely not for me. Superb room and facilities, great service, Casino I don’t use and nowhere else to go.
Engadget Japan wrote a nice piece and produced a magnificent logo following the offer made by Samsung to acquire Sandisk.
Sandisk is partially a Israeli company, following the acquisition of M-systems. (Plus, Sandisk founder is a former Israeli).
The original Japanese article – link
And the Logo:
Just bought the above Whiskey, and I enjoy it very much. Smooth and tasty. Sorry for not describing more, but I am not a magazine critic.
My rule is quite simple, if I like it, it is good.
But it turns out other people like it as well. Whiskey Magazine gave it a gold award – Link
Let’s see if my taste buds will be correct with the next Whiskey.
Not sure this is legal, but these guys has many streaming videos of Japanese/Korean/Chinese Dramas and Movies.
Link
We follow this Taiga Drama from NHK. Though I am sure it is not 100% true, it is quite fun to study about Samurai life, and for this Taiga Drama, the events that lead to the fall of the Shogunate, and to the Meiji Restoration.
Will try to write some more in the future.