On the 29th of October 1969, the first two servers were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Stanford Research Institute. They eventually became ARPANET, the predecessor of today’s Internet.
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Another 40th anniversary… the Internet!
Friday, October 30th, 2009Virual machine on your mobile phone
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Through the acquision of Trango VMWare is bringing virtualization to mobile phones. With its memory footprint of 20kbytes, built-in security and real-time hypervisor, Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) is opening new possibilities for cross-platform application development. Remains to be seen how this is going to be welcomed by operators and device manufacturers who have their own vision of the mobile market. And end-users? Who asks end-users?
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Mobile Internet and data transfer costs
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Google hopes that more mobile phone users will access Internet on the go no matter what mobile phone brand they use. For that to happen the cost of data transfer is the key. The current costs are unrealistic, particularly for international roaming. European Union left self regulation to mobile operators but the costs are still overpriced. As a next measure EU will likely adopt the law to cap the roaming prices. Perhaps the preassure could come from content providers and phone manufacturers as well.
Before Santa brings you a Nokia Tube…
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Nokia released two new NSeries phones, N85 and N79. N85 looks like a younger sibling of N95 although equipped with an excellent organic LED (OLED) display. It is also rich with features like navigation and 5Mpixel camera (N79 as well). Both phones are powered with Symbian S60 3rd edition with feature pack 2 (Symbian OS 9.3).
Nokia’s investment in Symbian establishes a solid foundation in development community for all their new phone models. It is expected that once released Nokia “Tube” (Nokia’s first touchscreen phone) will have much more solid application portfolio, platform robustness and stability than the rival iPhone from Apple.