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New iPhone On The Horizon

Emerging Mobile News

You can pretty much count on a new 3G iPhone come Monday. But redesigned MacBooks? Don't bet on it. Here's my take on what Steve Jobs will announce during his much-anticipated keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. New iPhone I'm almost certain that we'll feast our eyes on a new iPhone on Monday-one with access to speedy 3G networks along with build-in GPS, both features that are sorely missing in… Continue

Added by GenePhillips on June 8, 2008 at 2:59am — No Comments

AJAX Shells: Goosh!

A few months ago I ran across an AJAX interactive Ruby interpreter that really impressed me. It is an actual, working Ruby interpreter with an AJAX help system triggered by certain commands. If you type "help" followed by a number it will display the chapter's content in the area below the interpreter.

Today,… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on June 6, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

iPhone in Japan!

Yesterday Softbank Mobile announced that they will start iPhone service in Japan this year. With 18 million customers, Softbank is the third largest carrier in the country after Docomo and KDDI. The Japanese iPhone will be the 3G (WCMDA) version. A lot of people speculated that Docomo would be the carrier for iPhone, but Docomo simply thought Apple was asking for too much in the revenue share agreement. Apple has been playing Docomo and Softbank off… Continue

Added by Mika Leuck on June 4, 2008 at 6:00pm — 4 Comments

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What's happening with Perl, the jackknife of all kitchen sinks? I still learning and still liking it. ASP.Net is too weird. PHP is so inconsistent. Don't know Java or the other silly web languages.

Started out on the HP 2000E and HPBasic, pounding away at a teletype in Keller Hall. Then it was Fortran and punch cards on the IBM 370. Soon the retail personal computer appeared, TRS-80 and Apple II. Then IBM Personal Computer, 256K memory, dual floppy drives. Now it's FreeBSD, Apache,… Continue

Added by Wayne Hirata on June 3, 2008 at 6:30pm — 5 Comments

TechHui Passes 300 Members

With the addition of TechHuian Stephen McMahon, we have passed the 300 member mark. TechHui has become a reflection of Hawaii's vibrant and substantial technology community. Working with other TechHuians to build this online community has been, and continues to be, a fantastic adventure. We've discovered people all over the state working on fascinating technology projects. As I stated in response to an… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on May 31, 2008 at 6:58pm — 2 Comments

Featured Techie: Henk Rogers

Henk Rogers

I met Henk about ten years ago just after he moved from Japan to Hawaii. He had a lot of fantastic stories about his adventures in Russia and Japan, and was full of ideas about what he wanted to accomplish in the gaming industry. His energy was contagious. Last month I enjoyed chatting with Henk over lunch about iLovePhotos, …

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Added by Daniel Leuck on May 27, 2008 at 12:03pm — No Comments

Featured Techie: Sam Joseph

Note: Sam is actually our featured techie from last month. To maintain a history we will be adding featured techie profiles to the blog as well as having a column on the front page.

Sam Joseph

Sam programmed in Java for 10 years, but recently switched to Ruby as his language of choice. He is the lead developer on the Prometheus… Continue

Added by Mika Leuck on May 27, 2008 at 11:34am — No Comments

Congrats to YOU

Hey, cool, I just caught this writeup on TechHui from Ning. Neat-O! Hats off to Dan & folks that made this site what it is today.

I'm curious to see if the hitmeter registers a blip.

Added by Peter Kay on May 19, 2008 at 1:47pm — 1 Comment

Spicy world of NanoScience

Spicy network of NanoScience, Nanopaprika.eu - The International NanoScience Community started life in November 2007 and, today, counts more than 650 members. It is a virtual meeting point for researchers, industrial partners and students from more than 50 countries, and covers some 20 thematic groups (nanotoxicity, nanomedicine, nanoeducation,…). Discussions, forums, chat, videos and photos are open to all members. Visit the www.nanopaprika.eu learn… Continue

Added by andras paszternak on May 19, 2008 at 10:45am — 2 Comments

Featured Digital Artist: GB Hajim

Note: This article is cross-posted from the new

Digital Artists group.

The front page of TechHui has featured the work of Big Island CG wizard GB Hajim since its inception last year. In addition to his work on the 29th century feature film …

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Added by Daniel Leuck on May 8, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

A Historic Opportunity for Hawaii’s Tech Community

Trivia question: What is the most important decision you will be making at the ballot box at this November election? (Hint: it’s not the election of any candidate).

Answer: Whether or not to hold a Constitutional Convention or “ConCon”.

Every 10 years, voters have the opportunity to decide whether or not we can hold a ConCon which is where wholesale changes can be made to our state constitution.

Our last ConCon was 30 years ago and in 1978 some… Continue

Added by Peter Kay on May 7, 2008 at 10:26pm — 2 Comments

Second Semester coming to a close!

OMG! I cannot believe my second semester back at KCC is over in a week! It's always exhilarating and sad at the same time when another semester is done. I have had so much fun this semester. I am really enjoying both the designing and coding sides of web design. Surprisingly enough I am enjoying coding almost more than the designing! That is such a big surprise for me because I have to admit I was dreading coding.

I really took it upon myself to learn to code because I was… Continue

Added by Kat on April 29, 2008 at 10:18pm — 3 Comments

Mobile Phones And Banking Transactions

Emerging Mobile News

Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs.

How biometrics fingerprint… Continue

Added by GenePhillips on April 27, 2008 at 3:15am — No Comments

Google Maps Street View

I'm a little late but I just discovered Street View in Google Maps. You can explore Quicktime VR like 3D "photos" of a location on the ground.… Continue

Added by Truman Leung on April 24, 2008 at 10:16am — 3 Comments

WiZiQ Virtual Classroom Technology

Replay of March 17th Demo: http://www.wiziq.com/Replay_Session.aspx?key=t&id=73125

WiZiQ is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a profile, keep an availability schedule, and maintain a content library, which is… Continue

Added by Mark Cruthers on April 20, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Hacking BeanShell with JavaCC (Continued)

We will ease into the second part of this series (see Hacking BeanShell with JavaCC - Building a Language, Part 1) with a relatively simple task: implementing a "<>" equivalence operator. This operator calls .equals on its operands and handles nulls on either side. The first step is adding the operator to the JJTree grammar. We will also add a not equivalent… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on April 17, 2008 at 3:30am — 1 Comment

The Mobile Money Machine

During the past decade, the total value of money sent by migrant workers to their countries of origin has increased steadily. The World Bank and GSM Association estimate that in 2006 alone, approximately $250 billion was remitted globally. These transactions involved 200 million migrant workers, and the figures are increasing by approximately 30 percent per year. For some countries, these remittances exceed both direct foreign investment and… Continue

Added by GenePhillips on April 17, 2008 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

modal popup w/ arrows and easy placement

Just made my first open source contribution. It's a javascript class that uses the MooTools JavaScript framework which allows you to add an in-browser DHTML popup, tooltip or dialog (modal or non-modal) to your page.

Check it out and feel free to use it if you like:

http://www.ascribedata.com/moo/dialog/

Added by Truman Leung on April 15, 2008 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

DoCoMo's New Handset Features Voice Recognition

NTT DoCoMo Inc has announced it will launch the FOMA "Raku-Raku Phone Premium (F884i)" mobile phone on April 14, 2008. This handset was announced in March 2008 as an upper model of the "Raku-Raku Phone" series manufactured by Fujitsu Ltd. Fujitsu held a press preview April 11 when the handset's marketing schedule was determined. The Raku-Raku Phone Premium features 1seg viewing and the "Osaifu-Keitai (contactless mobile IC card)" capabilities, while… Continue

Added by GenePhillips on April 15, 2008 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

M-Commerce In North America

Mention mobile commerce in North America, and the common response is a roll of the eyes. It’s not hard to guess why. Back in the heady days of the Internet dot-com bubble, mobile commerce was one of the many buzz words connected with e-commerce whose promise failed to materialize because the hype was premature. Today’s landscape is much different. Several trends are… Continue

Added by GenePhillips on April 12, 2008 at 10:26am — No Comments