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Stream your own live video to your mobile phone
HAVA is a networked appliance that can encode a video source in real time and stream it to your mobile phone. For example, you can connect a surveillance camera to the HAVA box and you will be able to watch the surveillance video on your mobile phone, via the HAVA mobile client software. The HAVA mobile client software..... Read more »
Time for stricter harassment laws?
A remarkable scolding incident filmed on a handphone has appeared on Web sites. In it, a lady is seen launching a verbal barrage at a commuter standing in a commuter train. The five minute edited video seems to suggest a much longer period of filming in which the lady loudly proclaims in a mixture of Hokkien, Mandarin and..... Read more »
Time right for young open source companies: Proactum
During the recent Beijing Open Source Camp, I met with senior executives of Proactum, an open source software company from Finland.
While, generally, everybody knows Finland for Nokia, every one from the open source world knows Finland for Linux.
The executives--Proactum chairman Anneli Koivunen, senior partner Jouko Hyppönen and senior advisor Mikko Puhakka--shared their ideas on open source.
Please introduce yourselves and..... Read more »
Ailing companies, turnaround CEOs
Back in 1997, Apple Computer was far from the revered company that it is today. The company was bleeding cash and then-CEO Gil Amelio was booted out after a boardroom coup.
Steve Jobs, who himself was ousted from Apple in 1985, returned to the company and guided it back to profitability--and beyond. With the introduction of iconic products such as..... Read more »
Outsourcing trouble with Obama
I've written in this blog before about my great admiration for Barack Obama, whose sweeping message of change has catapulted him to the presidency of the United States. I was fortunate enough to witness his historic election during my recent trip to the United States, which coincided with the Nov. 4 polls.
It is..... Read more »
Free GPS tracking for iPhone, Android
If you need to track the whereabouts of your co-workers, or to give them your precise location, try using the free GPS tracking service by InstaMapper. (You still need to pay for mobile data charges though.)
You can install the free InstaMapper client software on your iPhone, Android and BlackBerry (some models only) mobile devices. When you run the..... Read more »
What difference a tech-savvy president maketh
In a typical newsroom where every journalist is fighting for a space on the front page, there are often days when you don't really want to be a tech reporter. Why?
How do you convince the chief editor that your piece about Asia becoming a breeding ground for..... Read more »
Why multi-SIM mobile services are useful
Some mobile operators offer a multi-SIM service that effectively "clones" your SIM card, allowing you to use multiple phones and PDAs with multiple SIM cards that are linked to a single mobile subscription.
You may make multiple phonecalls and mobile data connections simultaneously. However, only one of the devices can be designated as the master device to receive phonecalls and..... Read more »
Use mobile phones on MAS flights
Don't you hate it when the air stewardess comes up to you and says you're not allowed to use your mobile phone until the plane has stopped moving?
If you take Malaysia Airlines, you can use your mobile phone and Blackberry-type devices to make phonecalls, send SMS and e-mail.
MAS will become the first air carrier in Asia to..... Read more »
Observing the US automated elections
Before boarding my Philippine Airlines flight to San Francisco last Sunday night, a document inspector at the Centennial Airport in Manila, upon learning that I'm a journalist, asked if I was covering the U.S. presidential elections. I stopped momentarily before saying "no". It was only then that I realized that I'd be in America for what is probably the country's..... Read more »
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