Cork -> London -> Frankfurt -> Luxembourg -> Brussels -> Amsterdam -> London -> Kuala Lumpur for the next 200 hours. Enjoy~! Off........

Apple vs Apple. The gang of The Beattles: Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, representing Apple Corps Ltd, sued Steve Jobs of Apple Computer Inc. over the use of the apple logo.

100Mbit bluetooth is on the way in 2 years time by Bluetooth SIG, allows invigorating experience to users to stream their video and audio over the PAN.

Reverse competition resistence from Nitendo against close rivals Sony and Microsoft. No fancy graphic resolutions, but quiet, small, affordable game console.

Ajax is so good for next surge of interactive web applications? Max Skibinsky proves it in Hive 7.

Mar 29, 394.98

Even now VoIP is quite a big succulent cheese cake which wish to be beaten by Lycos...

Mar 28, 377.20

Why is Windows so slow?

Metrofi - envisages ubiquitous WiFi broadband coverage in most of the metros and suburbans in US in 5 years time.

Loki - automatically pinpoint your current exact location, and find the nearest spots you wish to head.

Mar 27, 369.69

Previous Paris-based Netvibes, was actually garnering million dollars of angel funding from Martin Varsavsky, the founder of WiFi network, FON, Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and Marc Andressen, founder of Ning.

Ning will become your web social appl which allow endless social app's discovery, personal cloning and customization, and finally, share.



Skype's, Kazaa's co-founders Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, were being sued for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) by rival, Morpheus's P2P StreamCast Networks.

Motorola strengthens its tap into Chinese and Indian market via multi-pronged marketing strategies. Seamless mobility is always the utmost concept to both markets, by fully utilising Motorola's end-to-end capabilities in: telecommunications networks, end-user devices, home connectivity, enterprise communications solutions, application voice solutions, wireless and wireline broadband technologies.

Motorola Ventures, or MV, Motorola's global strategic VC investment arm has invested in:Shanghai NewMargin - VC enterprise focusing on high-tech companies, high-growth or high-potential companies in ChinaShenzhen Shenxun IT Development (SXIT) - cooperation on platform, applications like LBS and enterprise solutions Legend Silicon - enterprise solutions, A-GPS, LBS, MMS, 3G applications, content, and client applications, mobile TV.

Motorola has been growing with Chinese market since 19 years ago, total the investment up to US$3.6bil, hiring more than 9,000 employees.

On the other hand, Motorola presents the Future of Telecommunications in India at MOTO4YOU roadshow. Seamless Mobility is demostrated on the future use of converged networks in delivering an unique user experiences to information, entertainment via any device regardless where they are (at work, at home, or on the move).

Motorola has been very active in India over 15 years.

Mar 24, 365.80

What can be said of this netvibes? This company has succesfully secured funding $1mil this week!

Mobber.com and 3bubbles.com are providing your the super interactive chats and blogs atmosphere. Social networking? Unique from existing blogsphere, chat-room?

Welcome to the world of Google.... Logos ~

Meet "The Artist" of the Google Logos:

More than 150 million Web surfers around the globe celebrated Korean Independence Day Aug. 15, 2001. Well, at least for a few moments while they were visiting the popular Internet search engine Google. That day, the Korean national flag and several roses of Sharon, the Korean national flower, adorned the familiar "Google" logo on the homepage of the Web site.

Just another day's work for Dennis Hwang (Hwang Jung-moak), a 23-year-old Korean computer artist in the United States , who has been drawing the face of Google for almost two years, creating a buzz of sorts with his simple yet witty designs.



With its seemingly magical ability to produce the most relevant search results, Google is already an established destination for the Internet savvy. Recently, Hwang's creative logos have been expressing the playful heart of Google behind the impressive technology.

For Piet Mondrian's birthday, Hwang transformed the "Google" logo to emulate the artist's signature style of utilizing colorful blocks. Claude Monet's birthday saw the logo turned into a dreamy watercolor, complete with floating lily pads.

Hwang recently spoke with The Korea Herald to give his take on the artistic side of the popular Internet search engine.

The Korea Herald: How long did you live in Korea as a child? What was it like?

Dennis Hwang: I was born in Knoxville, Tenn., but moved to Korea when I was about five years old. My hometown was Gwacheon where I had a very normal childhood. I went through public schools like everyone else, spending six years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon Middle School. Actually, much of my ideas and style stem from the time I spent during my childhood in Korea. Whatever challenges the logos bring, I can often rely on the little doodles that I used to do in school when I was young. Something that used to be frowned upon turned out to be my greatest asset.

Herald: When did you move back to the United States?

Hwang: I came back in 1992 when my father received a Fulbright Scholarship to research in the United States.

Herald: What was it like going to an American school all of a sudden?

Hwang: I was placed in a public middle school but was completely unprepared for it. I didn't speak a word of English. For the first six months, I couldn't communicate with the teachers or students. With the help of ESL programs though, I got better. My father returned to Korea, but my brother and I decided to continue our education in the States. My parents have made unimaginable sacrifices for us over the last 10 years, and I wouldn't be this successful without their support.

Herald: What was the first logo you designed for Google?

Hwang: Google had been using outside contractors to do the earlier logos, so the first project I got was modifying the Fourth of July logo in 2000. The two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted something more fun, so I redrew parts of the image. The next logo was for Bastille Day, which is the first logo I did from scratch.

Herald: Which letters are your favorite targets for manipulation?

Hwang: Understandably, the "O" and the "L" are the easiest to deal with. The "O" has become a Halloween pumpkin, a Nobel Prize medal, the Korean flag symbol and the planet earth. The "L" has been used as a flagpole, the Olympic flame cauldron or a snow ski. The first "G" is the most difficult to deal with, and I don't think the "E" has gotten much action because of its location.

Herald: How did you come to do the Korean Independence Day logo?

Hwang: Google makes a big effort to recognize holidays that aren't necessarily mainstream. The Korean Independence Day logo was seen globally by tens of millions of people. Numerous Korean-Americans wrote to thank us on Aug. 15 last year. Many expressed how proud it made them to see the Korean flag.

Herald: Do you have plans for other Korea-related logos in the future?

Hwang: I'll definitely to a special logo for Korea hosting the World Cup.

Herald: You're only 23 years old. What are your future plans?

Hwang: Who knows? It's very important to me that I can work both technically and artistically. Google is a perfect place to do that. It allows me to have a programming job while letting me express myself artistically, with the added bonus of having my work be seen by tens of millions of people in a single day.

Herald: What is your favorite letter among the ones found in the word "Google?"

Hwang: I've stared at the logo for so long and so often. I love them all equally.

Mar 23, 341.89

Technical Advisory Board is formed to make the "bridge" between vendors, users and developers of the open-source operating system.

Mar 22, 340.22

Catch up Bill Gates's keynote at the Office Developers Conference.

"Phone out" integrated in Yahoo! Messenger allows call from personal computer to regular phones with 2cents or less a minute to top 30 US's phone markets, and varying rates to total of 180 countries which 20-30% lower than Skype's, outside of US.

Startup entrepreneurs were told to be wary with MSFT's product:

"They have to expand into new software markets" to meet their growth targets, he said. "You have to think about whether that is one Microsoft ultimately wants to own."

But would it be the jumping stones?

Europe's biggest telecommunication group, Deutsche Telekom deploys MSFT softwares for its internet-based TV services.

92 foreign airlines were banned by EU due to its unsafety and flight crashes which killed hundreds of european travelers.

Wall Street's 2nd biggest trader, Morgan Stanley, smiled with 1Q's revenue earnings rose 17%, mostly from stocks, bonds and commodities transaction, overcoming decline in brokerage unit.

"Revenue climbed 24 percent to $8.48 billion, buoyed by oil, electricity and gas trading, and Morgan Stanley's traditional strengths in equity and debt."

Shares of US's 5th biggest drugmaker, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., and French partner Sanofi-Aventis SA surged after settle of lawsuit, which keeping a generic version of their blood thinner Plavix off the market until 2011. Agreement is reached where the companies to pay Apotex Inc. an unspecified amount to delay its introduction of a less expensive, generic copy of Plavix that would have hurt sales of the branded medicine. Plavix, the world's 2nd biggest drug behind Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor, generated almost $6bil in sales last year for Sanofi and Bristol-Myers, which jointly market the drug.

China to surpass US as largest exporter of manufactured goods?

FedEx Corp. topped analyst estimate on Q3's growth; Nike beats Wall Street projection in Q3.

Rejection of being takeover offer from ITV Plc, Britain's 2nd largest broadcaster, led to 10% jump of shares.

Mar 21, 339.92

Demonstration of willing sellers and willing buyers to get together for the mutual beneficial terms - Verizon pays for CBS's analog and digital signals, as well as the video-on-demand.

South African gaming billionaire, Sol Kerzner is on $3.6bil deal for his Kerzner International from Government of Dubai.

Chrysler was recalling the faulty windshield wipers.

Geico Corp, as one unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc which being controlled by world's second tycoon Warren Buffet, was accused of unfair automobile insurance rate which taking consumers' education background and occupation as criterias, stressing on minorities and low-income groups.

Recent pact between US's Applied Nanotech and Taiwan's Da Ling Co puts high expectation of pilot test on widescreen nano-TV, which is poised to deliver better picture quality than existing plasma and LCD TVs.

Mozilla's Firebox 2 open-source browser is believed to be released on this week.

Telecom with $500mil building on mobile network which deploys same UMTS technology by Vodafone and Aussie's Telstra.

Partnership between Nikefootball and Google to make whooa for football fans' social-networking into new realm - Nike provides content and Google plays role as technical partner. Joga.com is the quietly borned baby.

Microsoft's imminent IPTV.

Gates was actually sizing up the Web 2.0's generation? Catch it here.

This has been a very fascinating push of Google Finance which finally comes into the world of finance, a non-stop vibe dominating nations' economy.

Compared to rival Yahoo! Finance, the web appearance is minimalist, crystal clean, yet exceptional eloquent, real-time updated infos being tracked along the way, and thousands of related historical financial data like corporate news and important figures, graphes, blogs which definitely delight the private investors. It's effortlessly user-friendly too.

No doubt Google Finance will marshall into fund managers' and stockbrokers' piece of cake in making more happenings into the world of finance and business.

Mar 20, 348.15

Hyperactive Hyperboy comes into vibe, stressing on content-driven and rams into world of sharing. Watch out, MySpace.

Let me games begin at... GDC

Mar 17, 339.79

Amazon's Simple Storage Service, or S3 is having collision with G-Drive? Huh? Eyes pricked up.

The costly new technology Blu-ray seems like pulling Sony's PS3 down, delaying its launch to undeterminate date.

8 lawsuits from Microsoft against eBay auction sellers who allegedly sold its counterfeit applications.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, my Irish friends ;-)

Congratulations to my truely friend who has just passed his MBBS. Well done dude! Oppss.. should be Dr. :-)

Google goes shopping again. The item is SketchUp, an easy 3D model software for architects. So, it's nicely integrated into Google Earth, where the buildings can be more elegantly, 3-dimensional displayed.

Maverick surf...

High speculation that Swedish's Ericsson would make a huge endeavour, around 150bil skr, or US$19.5bil bid for Juniper Networks. Risky buy and dilutive?

Grouper.com - Share your video with the world.

Yet another classified play launched on last 2 days - Vast.com.

Mar 15, 344.50

Google delves into Mars. Check it out in Google Mars.

Mar 13, 337.06

Search makes you happy and wealthy :)

Sun will be bought by Google? I hope it comes true.

Arrange your book in Google Book. Update its information and Google provides the platform. Oppss.. This book merchandising business sounds like... eBay, Amazon?

Mar 10, 337.50

Here's the fascinating list:

Social Media
The new culture on the Web is all about consumer creation; it's composed of things like the nearly 30 million blogs out there and the 70 million photos available on Flickr. With a click of the mouse, anyone can be a journalist, a photographer, or a DJ. The audience -- that 1 billion-plus throng linked by the Web--itself is creating a new type of social media. That's leading to the creation of hundreds of promising Next Net businesses like the ones that follow.

1. Digg (San Francisco)
News aggregator. The site's links are picked by the readership, which has been doubling every three months; news items with the most votes make the homepage.

2. Last.fm (London)
Social radio. Its software creates a personalized streaming radio station based on the digital music you already listen to, shares your playlist on the Web, and suggests music from other closely related playlists.

3. Newsvine (Seattle)
Collaborative publisher. Readers vote and comment on stories but can also organize their own pages and write their own stories, for which they collect 90 percent of associated ad revenues.

4. Tagworld (Santa Monica)
Social networking. With cutting-edge Web software enabling blogs, photo and music sharing, online dating, and more, members confront a rich smorgasbord of ways to interact, and everything can be tagged for easy searching.

5. YouTube (San Mateo, CA)
Video sharing. This site lets people upload, watch, and share millions of video clips. All videos are converted to Flash (a Web-tailored format for graphics and video), making them easy to import into blogs or webpages.

6. Yahoo!
Hoping to dominate social media, it's gobbling up promising startups (Del.icio.us, Flickr, Webjay) and experimenting with social search (My Web 2.0) that ranks results based on shared bookmarks and tags.

MASHUPS AND FILTERS
As we move toward the Next Net, some of the most useful sites will be those that either help "mash up" -- meaning mix and match -- content from other parts of the Web or act as a filter for the overwhelming mountains of information now at people's fingertips. The companies that follow use content already on the Web as a starting point and then improve on it by organizing it in a new way.

7. Bloglines (Los Gatos, CA)
Online feed reader. The site collects blogs and news from all over the Web and presents it in one consistent, updated, multifeed mashup.

8. Eurekster (San Francisco)
Search mashup. This do-it-yourself search engine, or swicki, allows you to define sites you want to search, post the results on your blog or website, and get a cut of any search ads your audience clicks on.

9. Simply Hired (Mountain View, CA)
Job search engine. It searches nearly 4.5 million listings on other job and corporate sites; subscribers receive an RSS feed or e-mail alert when a job that meets their parameters pops up.

10. Technorati (San Francisco)
Blog search engine. The site filters the almost 30 million existing blogs, shows how many other blogs link to a particular post, and can rank blogs by topic.

11. Trulia (San Francisco)
Real estate mashup. Combining home listings from agents' websites with Google Maps, the site is becoming a hit in California and is expanding into other regions.

12. Wink (Mountain View, CA)
Tag search engine. By searching user-generated tags on Next Net sites like Del.icio.us and Digg, Wink filters the Web so users can sort links into different collections and add their own tags and bookmarks.

13. Google
Already the ultimate Web filter through general search as well as blog, news, shopping, and now video search, it's encouraging mashups of Google Maps and search results, and offers a free RSS reader.

THE NEW PHONE
For nearly a century, the phone, and voice as we know it, has existed largely in the confines of a thin copper wire. But now service providers can convert voice calls into tiny Internet packets and let them loose on fast connections, thus mimicking the traditional voice experience without spending hundreds of millions on infrastructure. All you need are powerful--but cheap--computers running specialized software. The Next Net will be the new phone, creating fertile ground for new businesses.

14. Fonality (Culver City, CA)
Open-source telephony software. It sells a $1,000 box that allows a PC to use open-source software to mimic a PBX system that costs five times as much.

15. SIPphone (San Diego)
Internet phone software. Its Gizmo Project application allows free PC-to-PC calls, cheap PC-to-phone calls, and sound effects.

16. Iotum (Ottawa, Ontario)
Presence management software. With its app, users will be able to control where and when they receive voice or text data, routing calls to their phones, e-mail, or RSS feed-and blocking calls from, say, creditors.

17. Vivox (Framingham, MA)
Peer-to-peer voice technology. Its service integrates voice, video, messaging, and social-networking capabilities into existing data networks.

18. eBay (Skype)
The pioneer in the field and still the front-runner, Skype brings together free calling, IM, and video calling over the Web; eBay will use it to create deeper connections between buyers and sellers.

THE WEBTOP
It's been a long time -- all the way back to the dawn of desktop computing in the early 1980s -- since software coders have had as much fun as they're having right now. But today, browser-based applications are where the action is. A killer app no longer requires hundreds of drones slaving away on millions of lines of code. Three or four engineers and a steady supply of Red Bull is all it takes to rapidly turn a midnight brainstorm into a website so hot it melts the servers. What has changed is the way today's Web-based apps can run almost as seamlessly as programs used on the desktop, with embedded audio, video, and drag-and-drop ease of use.

19. JotSpot (Palo Alto)
Wikis and online spreadsheets. A pioneer of Web collaboration apps, a.k.a. wikis, it has unveiled its new Tracker application, which provides a powerful, highly collaborative online spreadsheet.

20. 30Boxes (San Francisco)
Online calendar. This Web-based software allows families and groups to create private social networks, organize events, track schedules, and share photos; it may soon allow you to save phone numbers as hyperlinks and make calls by simply clicking on a link.

21. 37Signals (Chicago)
Online project management. Its Basecamp app, elegant and inexpensive, enables the creation, sharing, and tracking of to-do lists, files, performance milestones, and other key project metrics; related app Backpack, recently released, is a powerful online organizer for individuals.

22. Writely (Portola Valley, CA)
Online word processing. It enables online creation of documents, opens them to collaboration by anyone anywhere, and simplifies publishing the end result on a website as a blog entry.

23. Zimbra (San Mateo, CA)
Online e-mail. Taking aim at Microsoft Outlook, its Ajax-based application can, among other things, bring up your calendar for any date your mouse encounters, launch Skype for any phone number, or retrieve a Google map for any address.

24. Microsoft
By rolling out Windows Live, Office Live, and other Next Net-centric software, it hopes to grab a dominant -- if not monopolistic -- share of the webtop, which Bill Gates regards as a crucial strategic priority.

UNDER THE HOOD
A growing number of companies are either offering themselves as Web-based platforms on which other software and businesses can be built or developing basic tools that make some of the defining hallmarks of the Next Net possible.

25. Brightcove (Cambridge, MA)
Internet TV distributor. It's creating a video-distribution platform over the Web for producers large and small.

26. Jigsaw (San Mateo, CA)
Business contact database. In exchange for their own contact lists, salespeople use this site to access a virtual Rolodex of managers at nearly 150,000 companies.

27. SimpleFeed (Palo Alto)
Opt-in RSS marketing. By allowing RSS feeds to be customized to the desires of each recipient and tracked individually, the site makes such feeds a powerful marketing tool.

28. Salesforce.com (San Francisco)
Platform for online enterprise software. It pioneered Web-based software and is trying to become a marketplace and host for other online apps through its AppExchange.

29. Six Apart (San Francisco)
Blogging tools. The company helped kick off and sustain the Next Net with its Moveable Type blogging software and TypePad blogging service.

30. Amazon
It's becoming a major Web platform by opening up its software protocols and encouraging anyone to use its catalog and other data; its Alexa Web crawler, which indexes the Net, can be used as the basis for other search engines, and its Mechanical Turk site solicits humans across cyberspace to do things that computers still can't do well, such as identify images or transcribe podcasts.

An inspiring article from Business 2.0 Magazine on "The Next Net 25", and it's fully extracted:

"SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Things are really crackling in Silicon Valley these days. There's the frenzied startup action, the rising rivers of VC cash, even the occasional bubble-icious long-term stock prediction (Google $2,000, anyone?). There's so much happening that the buzzword recently employed to try to encapsulate the era -- "Web 2.0" -- now seems hopelessly inadequate, defined and redefined into near meaninglessness by squadrons of aspiring entrepreneurs, marketers, and other fortune hunters.

So it seems a particularly useful moment to wave away the smoke and home in on what's really core. Don't be distracted by the Valley's hype-o-meter pushing toward the red: There's something very real -- and very powerful -- afoot.

Driven by ubiquitous broadband, cheap hardware, and open-source software, the Web is mutating into a radically different beast than it has been. And that is leading to the creation of entirely new kinds of companies, new business models, and oceans of new opportunity.

We are in the early stages of what might be better thought of as the Next Net. The Next Net will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than 1 billion Web users across the globe -- not by, say, instant messaging, but by evolving instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging apps that will make today's e-mail and IM seem crude.

The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world.

The new era is also creating a realm of endless mix and match: Anyone with a browser can access vast stores of information, mash it up, and serve it in new ways, to a few people or a few hundred million.

Most striking, the Next Net creates endless possibilities for entrepreneurs and established players alike to take advantage of the Web's new power. They are building on the success of early standard-bearers -- Flickr, MySpace, Wikipedia -- but also moving beyond those pioneers in creative and fascinating ways.

In the pages that follow, we identify 25 companies, in five Next Net categories, whose approaches help illuminate where the Web is headed and where the opportunities lie. Most are startups, a lot of them with less than 10 full-time employees. Few are currently making money, and it's a given that many will fail. But it's equally likely that somewhere within this group lurks the next Google or Microsoft or Yahoo -- or at least something that those giants will soon pay a pretty penny to have."

Writely, the web word processor is not a part of Google. Well, it's a portion of big dream of G:Drive, providing very close end run around Microsoft.

Mar 9, 343.00

Plum.com - Collect. Share. Connect.

Blinkx.com. How it's going to be compete with current audio, video, podcast, vlog search engine players on the planet - veoh, truveo, podzinger, etc?

Mar 8, 353.88

First glance on Google Calendar. Fairly convincing.

Mar 7, 364.45

rawsugar.com - another del.icio.us? Launched last month.

Tiltomo.com is having Beta of its visual image search engine. Some sort of mathematical calculations to form the algorithms in analyzing the similarity and relationship between images.

BT signed contracts with 4 suppliers - Alcatel, Ericsson, Cisco and Fujitsu for its N-Gen of network transformation programme, 21st Century Netwok (21CN).

Sun's Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) pushes on pervasive computing.

If you know Chinese, this blog reflects how a tiny voice struggling for justical vibrancy in nation of 1.3bil.

A good attempt to move away from ICANN's governance?

Buoyanting the wave of free open-source and sharing, AOL eventually footprints its Open AIM to hobbyist developers to develop plugs-in, mashups or third-party applications to connect to its 63mil users. Among the products are Apple's iChat, ICQ, Microsoft Live Communications Server, IBM Lotus Sametime, Reuters Communicator, Antepo, Parlano, Omnipod, Jabber, which are all hosted and partnered with AOL.

Mar 6, 368.10

Thin client, thick server.

Would the world in next very future stores all their whatever: pictures, videos, emails, songs, applications, data files - you name it, in the form of online? If so, this implies that the server's storage is gigantic, the bandwidth is huge; and the processing is awesome.

We are looking forward the imminence.

Logical step of AT&T-BellSouth $67bil M&A exercise, is poised to contribute some vibrancy to State's phone customers, Verizon as closest rival, Google, eBay's Skype.

Mar 3, 378.18

Bambi's share about "How can Google make more money" is awesome, driving to the ponder hour. World is spinning in fast pace; biz world is crazy, and Google is now and then under the limelight; attacks from any other rivals throughout the State and out of State.

In personal view, Googlers are still developing fantastic technologies which would definitely change the tradition ways of people living, communication, information retrieval and utilization. It's not the bubbled age for Google's current monetization system - Paid-search advertising biz will be definitely growing.

Mar 2, 376.45

Since his arrival in the early of 2004, Ed plays the key role in innovating, reviving sleepy inward-looking Motorola. No great shuffle on his management team - sticked back mostly with old "dysfunctional" top managers, which is out of expectation, instead. Seek more his articulations about ultathin Razr, Slvr, initial extensive biz rescue actitvities, market regain etc.

Windows Live Expo and Windows Live Local shared the common goal: seeking niche in the obsession. I doubt its popularity as if Americians are given too much of web service alternatives.

Microsoft will take over Google as world's search engine leader 6 months from now? Integrating search into all Microsoft's applications, seamlessly? Yup, Google does this. Fantastically, another technology pundit, Oracle forays into search market. Still room for unimaginative searching experience?

Mar 1, 364.80

Check on Perenety next month.

Google Base made a silent yet formidable move on its enhancement of payment system, probably cause headache to eBay and its PayPal. Needed: Google Accounts, credit card info, and free of fees and commissions.

GOOG is growing in slow pace due to the "law of large numbers".

Feb 27, 390.38