Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Cell phone innovation stifled?

This article in the Wall Street Journal argues that the big cellphone carriers stifle innovation. I am not sure I agree... there has been so much innovation in this space in the last five years already! Things don't seem particularly stifled. Compare this, for example, with the situation with Operating Systems!

posted by S. Keshav @ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1 comments  

Worldwatch Institute

The Worldwatch Institute site is a good way to remind everyone of the real problems in the world today. The role of IT, and systems research in particular, ought to be, in some way, to build infrastructure that solves these problems, instead of making them worse. I firmly believe that the efficiencies introduced by the free flow of information are the only way for us to create sustainable economies.

posted by S. Keshav @ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 0 comments  

Monday, July 18, 2005

Yet another smart wireless device, and cheap too

This is the Aeronix Zipit instant messenger appliance that costs USD 99. It has audio, so it may serve as a cheap Internet radio as well. What would be cool would be to make it VNC compatible, so that is could be used as a lightweight front end, but with the hacked framebuffer, this may not be easy.

posted by S. Keshav @ Monday, July 18, 2005 0 comments