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No Changes in Mobile

June 24, 2008

Today’s announce­ment by Nokia that it would acquire all of Sym­bian rep­re­sents an impor­tant move in the upcom­ing bat­tle for next gen­er­a­tion mobile devices (to call them phone seems unfair as they tend to do more than just make calls). In this entry, I’ll take a quick look at how the dif­fer­ent play­ers are cur­rently approaching […]

Microsoft Does Linux

April 4, 2006

I had to check the date on the arti­cle when I saw the announce­ment that Microsoft was going to pro­vide some level of sup­port for Linux. How­ever, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke; it’s the real thing and has seri­ous impli­ca­tions. In order to under­stand the impact, one has to under­stand how Microsoft used […]

Googling Netscape

February 1, 2006

The Google stock is get­ting hurt in after hours trad­ing as the company’s earn­ings dis­ap­pointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for exec­u­tives at Google to look at his­tory and, hope­fully, not repeat it. The his­tory I am talk­ing about, in par­tic­u­lar, is that of a com­pany that was in a similar […]

Getting to Know You

December 16, 2005

Google’s intro­duc­tion of new exten­sions for Fire­fox is all about know­ing more about some users. This week, Google intro­duced two new Fire­fox exten­sions: Google Safe Brows­ing and Blog­ger Web Com­ments which are pro­vid­ing richer inte­gra­tion with the desk­top and a num­ber of new fea­tures based on your surf­ing pat­terns. But the ques­tion, when look­ing at those is […]

Webalizer.conf hacking: HideAgent

August 27, 2003

Many peo­ple have writ­ten to me to point out that they still get dupli­cate entries in their user-agent table after using the GroupA­gent trick I high­lighted. To remove those, you need to use the HideAgent direc­tive. Here is the list of HideAgent direc­tives I have in my file: HideAgent rv:1.4 HideAgent 3.01 HideAgent 3.02 HideAgent 4.01 HideAgent 5.0 […]

Usability 101: Efficiency

June 18, 2003

On Mon­day, I high­lighted the five basic points of usabil­ity. Yes­ter­day, I delved fur­ther into the con­cept of learn­abil­ity. Today, we are focus­ing on the con­cept of effi­ciency. What is effi­ciency? Effi­ciency relates to how fast a user accom­plish tasks once he or she has learned to use a sys­tem. The basic idea behind it is that, as you […]

It’s About the Customer

June 20, 2000

Recently, I tried a new appli­ca­tion called Media­Bridge from Digi­marc. The basic con­cept is that if you have a quick­cam or scan­ner attached to your PC, you can access extra con­tent through a URL embed­ded within a news­pa­per or mag­a­zine page. Inter­est­ing con­cept as one could see this being used in Inter­net direc­to­ries or for more infor­ma­tion on a par­tic­u­lar article. […]

Wireless: A confusing Landscape

March 4, 2000

The lack of clear stan­dard­iza­tion and leader is imped­ing the progress of mobile inter­net technology.

Transmeta Changes the Landscape

January 19, 2000

Mor­ph­ing soft­ware could allow com­puter chips to change based on soft­ware upgrades. A new com­pany, Trans­meta, enters the space and could rede­fine how chips are produced.

1994–2000: How Things Have Changed

December 31, 1999

Look­ing at the things that changed on the Inter­net between 1994 and 2000.