What?
Exactly that!
Posters around my neighborhood (Kawasaki, Japan) announce a “Whale Festival”, goals are :
知ろう - Know
食べよう – Eat
考えよう – Consider
Not sure what to do about this, but at least I have put it on the web.
Whale tasting festival
Intel Closing WiMAX Program Office in Taiwan
One can speculate if this means that Intel is cutting WiMAX investments, or just that WiMAX adoption among Taiwanese ODMs is good enough.
Via PCworld which also includes a link to speculations.
My opinion: Cutting down WiMAX investment.
Another UQ Campaign, another yawn
UQ Wimax just announced a new business campaign.
More details are here (PDF, JP), but my guess it will be as “successful” as previous campaigns.
UNIST (Ulsan National Institue of Science and Technology) Visit
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
Video Clip (PV) using SLR Cameras
This is not a first, but I experienced it myself last night.
As I was attending last night’s Geeks on a Plane event, the adjoining space was being used to shoot a Promotional Video (PV) for an unknown (didn’t ask their name) band.
3 DSLR cameras were being used with different lenses (from wide angle to Zoom).
Here are the Photos:
And a Video:
HMV Shibuya to close
HMV Shibuya posted a sign notifying customers that the shop will close in August.
In the past few months HMV already gave up the top floor for a guitar shop, but the end came faster than expected.
SUN R.I.P.
Open Network Lab with HootSuite
Open Network Lab is a new incubation lab for Internet based Startups.
I joined last week’s meeting with Ryan Holmes, HootSuite CEO and Japanese Shinnichi Fujikawa, founder of Movatwi.
Open Network Lab goal is to encourage innovation and Internet based Start-Ups, which may explain the 40 minutes long panel on “How Engineers can start Companies”.
HootSuite recently launched a Japanese version of their service,with the aid of Digital Garage which is heavily invested in the Twitter phenomena and related tools/services.
To me it seems Open Network Lab is the right tool for the current economic and social situation in Japan. In the past few months I have met many Engineers, Innovators excited to start their own companies, but fail in two things:
- How to market their services to the mass market
- How to go Global
Another Round of Layoffs in Alvarion
Israeli The Marker, reports another round of layoff in Alvarion .
Magic number this time is 170m about 20% of workforce. If this is not another indication that WiMAX is doomed, I don’t know what is. According to the article, Alvarion is expecting new projects in India as well as rural US.
What I am saying: “Reinvent yourself”.
LTE is almost there, while WiMAX couldn’t grab enough market share. Which basically means that WiMAX will stay in Niches, 3rd world markets which never deployed 3G, vertical markets, private networks, etc.
So, either Alvarion matches her size to the market, or find another market.
Another WiMAX company bites the Dust
Canadian Tranzeo Wireless acquires Aperto Networks .
No further details on the deal, but I can just assume Aperto was sold for close to nothing.
Which company will be next?