Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Four more days
Four more days . Havent updated this for quite some time. Due to work or due to what ever and I am not going to do it for the next three weeks. Decided to just spend this vacation with my family sitting at home and having a good chat with all my family members..
****HOME SWEET HOME****
****HOME SWEET HOME****
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Intel testing WIMAX in SEA
As part of its effort to push adoption of WiMax fixed-wireless broadband technology, Intel is working with government regulators and operators in several Southeast Asian countries to conduct tests of the technology, the company said Thursday.
Intel is currently involved with WiMax trials under way in Malaysia and Thailand, it said in a statement.
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Intel is currently involved with WiMax trials under way in Malaysia and Thailand, it said in a statement.
read more
Investor's Business Daily: Intel, Qualcomm Ready To Fight Over Emerging WiMax Standard
A good article by Investors.com on the same WIMAX technology.
Investor's Business Daily: Intel, Qualcomm Ready To Fight Over Emerging WiMax Standard
Investor's Business Daily: Intel, Qualcomm Ready To Fight Over Emerging WiMax Standard
Why WiMax Could Hit the Hotspot
Despite the phenominal growth of 3G networks it appears WIMAX has got a future for it self.
With the backing of Intel and some other companies WIMAX has got the ability to funnel out the money from the already loss making TELCOs.
But if its going to provide cheap and reliable access to end user then my vote goes to it.
Why WiMax Could Hit the Hotspot
With the backing of Intel and some other companies WIMAX has got the ability to funnel out the money from the already loss making TELCOs.
But if its going to provide cheap and reliable access to end user then my vote goes to it.
Why WiMax Could Hit the Hotspot
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
First Live Cricket 3G Orange TV
First Live Cricket 3G Orange TV
Orange launched a world’s first for live sports broadcasting - a live cricket channel covering the ICC Super Series for Orange mobile TV users.
Will be glad to see this service in India as well. The nation with a billion population who lives, eats, drinks cricket
Orange launched a world’s first for live sports broadcasting - a live cricket channel covering the ICC Super Series for Orange mobile TV users.
Will be glad to see this service in India as well. The nation with a billion population who lives, eats, drinks cricket
Sony Touch Screen
Sony launched its first ( probably the first product in the Digi Cam world) touch screen camera recently. Looking at this compact yet feature rich ( 8.1 Mega Pixel,3" touch screen, &3X optical zoom) camera I really dont have an idea what will be its fate. I just have a question, do we need it or its just to show that I can touch and take photographs.
The upside will be defintely the 'touch screen', at least for the enthusiastic. I am sure it makes things much much easier for many who hate to search for the tiny buttons playing hide and seek with the user. Added to that the 8.1 Mega pixel will be something people want to have it for the sake of better quality(?)
The last one and something new is the photo album feautre or software. It turns the camera in to a small photo album. Oh boy I like it.
On the other hand I can dare say that the downside is its touch screen as well. It makes things easier but how many people really go for it. Do you really want to use it ?
How about the sensitivity. Being the user of Sony Camcoder sometimes I feel touch screens are good but it makes things more weird as well. ( Finger prints, dust, n gals pointed nails etc)
Letz wait n see
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Live your own life
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life, says Steve Jobs
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months before I really quit. Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Here’s one example: Reed College offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about what makes great typography great. Ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. If I had never dropped in on that course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or for that matter even proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied Mac, it’s likely no personal computer would have them. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple when I was 20. In 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2-billion company. And then I got fired. It was devastating.But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar is now the world’s most successful animation studio. Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy. It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue. In the final issue, on the back cover they put a photograph of an early morning country road. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
(Excerpts from a popular chain e-mail, containing the text of the Commencement Address delivered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Stanford University recently)
Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months before I really quit. Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Here’s one example: Reed College offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about what makes great typography great. Ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. If I had never dropped in on that course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or for that matter even proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied Mac, it’s likely no personal computer would have them. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple when I was 20. In 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2-billion company. And then I got fired. It was devastating.But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar is now the world’s most successful animation studio. Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy. It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue. In the final issue, on the back cover they put a photograph of an early morning country road. Beneath it were the words: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. It was their farewell message as they signed off. I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
(Excerpts from a popular chain e-mail, containing the text of the Commencement Address delivered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Stanford University recently)
