Monthly Archives: August 2006

Review: Tipping Point

I had greatly enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s later book, Blink, but I had somehow missed Tipping Point at the time it was published. This summer I thought I’d correct that mistake. Tipping Point is a fairly short book, and at just … Continue reading

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Now look who’s charging who; 1-0 for the SPs

Remember the ongoing net neutrality debate? More precisely, remember when recently, some ISPs and backbone operators said that they “deserve” a cut of Google’s, Yahoo!’s etc revenues with these looming payment demands hanging like dark clouds over the service providers? … Continue reading

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Mobile money problems

Some time ago, YLE News had a short article on how for-pay mobile services are causing some problems with youths spending a lot of money on them; apparently the mobile phone bills for some have reached thousands of euros and … Continue reading

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A List

As people know, I’m not a big fan of memes. However, every now and then a clever one pops up and this time I saw a cute one on Satya’s blog, so here goes. The idea is that from the … Continue reading

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End of vacation

Alas, as the official summer month July wraps up, so does my vacation. It wasn’t entirely a vacation vacation due to the floor remodeling thing but it was a nice break anyway. The month of July was dominated by beautiful, … Continue reading

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