Apple Inc is a company that has innovated and revolutionized multiple markets with a surprisingly short list of products. Apple made the iPod, the wildly successful MP3 music player, that subsequently changed the way we access a lot of our entertainment with iTunes. They've created the iPhone, which has revolutionized the smartphone market. They created their infamous App Store, which many of us are truly thankful for. Steve Jobs…
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After initial failures in the Japanese market, Facebook and LinkedIn may have caught their second wind
For years US based social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn have had very poor penetration in Japan despite having more features and better UX design than local competitors. Homegrown networks such as Mixi and Gree dwarf the Japanese localized versions…
Added by Daniel Leuck on June 26, 2011 at 2:00pm — 6 Comments
In the beginning of “Friends”, one of my favorite TV shows, Rachel left her wedding and decided to live with Monica in NYC, Monica gave Rachel a hug and said, “Welcome to the real world, it's difficult, you're gonna love it”.
That's pretty much how I feel about the first month of my…
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There was a thought-provoking article by NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard, Online Comments: Dialogue or Diatribe? She talks about the struggles in maintaining an open atmosphere with restricting the unproductive and frankly vicious attacks.
At its best, commenting builds community. As a blogger, commenters give you updates, different perspectives, and…
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A successful trial of 100 Gigabits per second prototype transmission equipment has just been completed on the Southern Cross twin cable network. This was demonstrated during extensive testing of the latest 40 Gbps equipment from a number of suppliers in readiness for the next Southern Cross capacity expansion targeted for 2012. Southern Cross currently uses 10 Gbps transmission equipment.“Southern Cross continues to invest and build ahead of demand, to support new innovation and broadband…
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One of the hardest things for me when setting up new websites is thinking up good domain names. Not only do they have to be catchy, they have to be available. From my experience, any good domain name that's 4 words or less is probably taken.
Here's a great article I read about this problem: Welcome to the world of cybersquatting. This is when someone registers…
Added by Marcus Sortijas on June 10, 2011 at 7:00am — 2 Comments
A constant topic of conversation in the Hawaii tech community is - what tech niches would work in Hawaii or, even better, be really well suited to the islands. One that seems to be a natural is social gaming. Why? A couple of reasons. First, our affinity with Japan (and close ties with the culture) give us a huge leg up on the gaming future. Anyone who knows the history of RPGs in Japan knows that Farmville (and most other Zynga titles) came from Japanese RPGs (or flavors of them) that…
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For a company devoted to making people's lives as transparent as possible, Facebook is extremely secretive. So it was a rare treat to watch this presentation by Chuck Rossi, a release engineer: How Facebook pushes updates to its site every day.
I thought it was fascinating as Rossi showed screenshots of the myriad tools and processes used by the world's…
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Sorry Hawaii is not in the bandwidth game. But I would suggest that our State legislatures should start that initiatives to push this issue to the top! All new development should also be considering the usage of Fiber Optics in all aspects of building, such as FTTP or FTTH.
Today’s cable companies uses EPON (ethernet PON) as part of the DOCSIS provisioning specifications. DSL has its similar specification and bandwidth limitations.
However with optical networks we will…
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