Chart courtesy of DigitalBeat and Hitwise US It was bound to happen and many predicted this year would be the one where we see social media – especially Facebook take away the most popular site crown from Google. The social networking site did beat out Google by a miniscule percentage – 7.07% to 7.03% in the US according to Hitwise. It is worth pointing out that social gaming seems to be the reason for the rapid rise of Facebook traffic
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Facebook Passes Google in US Traffic
I have long collaborated with Achim Zeileis, Ila Patnaik, Anmol Sethy and Vimal Balasubramaniam on testing, dating and monitoring of structural change of the de facto exchange rate regime. A few weeks ago, Anmol Sethy had done a talk about the ZSP methodology in Singapore.
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Talk in Chicago on testing, dating and monitoring of structural change of the exchange rate regime
`Repec’ is very nice public domain effort in economics which is building up a database of papers in economics. They have a series of email alerts for New Economics Papers (NEPs) where an editor examines the flow of papers and picks a few in a field. I am the editor for the NEP on international finance , so please do subscribe to this as a mechanism to track the literature in this field
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Tracking the literature
New York (GaeaTimes.com) – Obama Administration has recently guaranteed billions of loans for new nuclear power plants in the U.S. But the decision of new power plants may not be heartily welcomed in every part of the country
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104 Nuclear Reactors: List of Nuclear Power Plants in US
A few years ago, when Percy Mistry’s committee was working on the MIFC report, I used to joke that of the two great industries in Bombay, movies will make it first to international customers. A few days ago in the New York Times , Anupama Chopra has a story showing that some action on that front is now visible. Winning on a global scale in finance and in movies has some common features : it involves raw materials like human capital, top end computer technology, freedom of speech, openness to other cultures, a large home market, the natural opportunities of connecting up with the disapora, and Schumpeterian creative destruction
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The two great industries of Bombay
Dear developers, you have no power, no recourse beyond $50 and are at our complete mercy. NASA has an iPhone app and the mere fact that this government agency chose to develop one means that the EFF was able to use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the Apple iPhone developer agreement – the closely guarded document which gives Apple the power to pull applications at will and be the final arbiter of what apps make it into the iTunes App Store.
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Apple iPhone Developer Agreement Made Public
Although WiMAX has universal appeal, as it creates ubiquitous broadband connectivity, the key drivers for the deploying WiMAX in emerging and developed markets differ. Over the last few years, WiMAX has gained a strong foothold in developing markets, where there is a latent demand for broadband, but poor infrastructure
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WiMAX: Emerging Markets vs. Developed Markets
Years back TMC launched a magazine titled IMS which stands for IP Multimedia Subsystem – and represented an architecture model allowing carriers to open up their networks to developers who would in turn take a revenue split in exchange for allowingtheir apps to run on the carrier’s network. Customers of the service provider would be provided walled garden access to services – they would be pushed to use authorized apps.
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Google Apps Marketplace Brings Walled Garden to the Desktop
Seeing Adobe Air and Flash run on a device which is similar to the iPad makes users wonder just why Apple has chosen not to support these ubiquitous technologies Steve Jobs is one of the most powerful people in business and especially technology. So when he comes out publicly and says Adobe’s Flash technology has problems and he won’t support it in his products, people take notice
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Adobe Comes Out Swinging Against Apple
Florida (GaeaTimes.com) – Jacob Nodarse, a 23 year old man was arrested at his parents home in southern Florida in Wednesday afternoon. He was arrested on the charges of obstruction of justice, but police told The Chicago Tribune that he is a prime suspect in the murders of Darien family in Florida. Jeffrey Kramer, 50, …
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Jacob Nodarse Arrested: Prime suspect of Darien Family Killing
As Neptune’s trident has struck Port Alberni this December 8th 2009 he must have remembered the day more than a century ago when the All Red Line was completed close by at the Bamfield Cable Station in October 1902. The first Global network circling the Globe, projecting the might of the British Empire and Neptune’s first globe spanning copper belt.
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Port Alberni Cable Landing Station Sees Traffic Again
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile last week was so powerful that it may have shifted the Earth’s axis by about three inches shortening our days by 1.26 millionth of a second. The shortening of our days by that much amount won’t have any directly perceivable changes in the environment such as season or temperature …
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Chile Earthquake: Earth axis shifts shortening our days
Tokyo, Japan (GaeaTimes.com) – After the 8.8 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of Chile on Saturday, Tsunami warnings were issued for Hawaii, Japan and parts of Australia. Nearly half million people in Japan were moved to higher ground as the coastal areas across the vast pacific region were open to the lethal tsunami waves. As the ….
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Japan Tsunami Warning Lifted, No Reports of Damage
OSM Mapped to a 3D Plane with as3Dmod Building on my first experiment with OpenStreetMaps and Away3D, I decided to cook up two more! The first one uses a block grid to display the map in 3D space. On zoom the blocks rotate 360. I used the ModestMap TweenMap, displayed in on the left, to allow control and capture the map’s bitmap data.
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Open Street Maps Experiments Take Two…
Did you know that when someone wants to visit India to attend a conference, the person has to : obtain Conference Visa from the Indian Mission concerned on production of either the invitation letter from the organiser, event clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs, administrative approval of the nodal ministry, political clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs or clearance from the State Government/UT concerned.
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Illiberal India
more images Texas (GaeaTimes.com) – Joseph Andrew Stack of Texas apparently had some serious grudge against the Internal Revenue Services as he flew a small airplane intentionally into an IRS building. He left a suicide note before flying his Piper Cherokee PA-28. There were 199 people working in the IRS office at Echelon Building in Austin
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Joe Stack Plane Crash at Austin Echelon Building
All the talk early this year seems to be about LTE deployment to alleviate chronic Apple and other smartphones induced indigestion on the AT&T and other major Mobile Networks swamped by data traffic. The telluric shift albeit the user will not care or should not notice is that when he or she will power on that smartphone or whatever the communicating Swiss Knife will be called, it will request an IP address to complete an IP based call. A device without an IP address will be rather difficult to reach and the ungodly NATword should not even be whispered
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IPv6 or IPv4? What will we see in the first wave of LTE networks?
Anmol Sethy will do a talk on our work on testing, dating and monitoring exchange rate regimes at the R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference 2010 , including some recent progress on parallel computation.
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Talk at R/Rmetrics Singapore Conference 2010 on measurement of the exchange rate regime
3D Cubes Roaming in Away3D Though a bit late, this month’s experiment builds on last month setup and adds a bit of AI. Cubes now roam and avoid each other when near collision. A very basic detection system using a vector and couple of recursive functions.
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February’s Landing Page Experiment: Roaming
Carriers are examining different strategies to staff to meet the needs of an IP transition. Some carriers will be able to leverage existing in-house expertise at the data layer, while others will look outside the organization to hire a few key players to lead the transition. Some carriers will turn toward third-party providers for access to transition expertise.
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Why Collaboration Matters in an IP Transition
I suggested companies join the RPX patent protection club back in 2008 as I have seen how patent litigation can destroy a company’s profitability and force it to lose focus. RPX as you may remember is a firm whose goal is to allow companies to buy into a pool of patents which can be used to protect them against future lawsuits. The idea is a company will think twice about pursuing a patent lawsuit if you can countersue using a huge pool of patents.
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Patent Pooling Taking Off
Three fascinating new takes on Mumbai as an international financial centre: Mukul Asher and Azad Singh Bali in DNA a few weeks ago. In the February 2010 issue of Pragati released yesterday, there are two articles on this: by Percy Mistry himself, and by V. Anantha Nageswaran
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Mumbai as an international financial centre
Livecage came to ITEXPO East 2010 last week in Miami and the colocated Smart Grid Summit and recorded a number of video interviews which are posted here . I hope you find them useful. Here are some of the people who participated in the interviews: John Bryan Jeremy Griesbach Jon Arnold Sharon S.
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Smart Grid Summit East 2010 Videos
This week, my team has been busy getting ready to move TMC out of our building at 1 Technology Plaza as we prepare to move down the street to River Park. Our new headquarters will allow us to accommodate our rapid growth and we hope to double our size at our new address. By Monday, we expect to be up and running and look forward to the next phase of our company’s growth
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TMC Moves on Friday
Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO thinks Wow Mobile is doomed. To be fair, Peter is cynical but then again, he is right most of the time. In this case he thinks a MLM, get-rich scheme which sells mobile service has no chance — especially when you consider the history of MVNO failure in the US
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Is Wow Mobile Doomed Already?
I used a slew of technology at the show but two products are worth special mention. The first is the Flip Mino HD video recorder which excelled in low-light conditions and allowed me to take rapid and high-quality videos of the show. Thanks Cisco for providing me with this device
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Tools I Used at ITEXPO East 2010
A humble thank you to my followers who came out in support of ITEXPO this past week in Miami. Thank you conferees who braved a tough economic climate and came to the show. I also want to extend appreciation to the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at the show
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ITEXPO East 2010 Miami a Great Success Thanks to You
Before checking out this post be sure to put on your propeller hat — Oh and by the way turn down the sound if you ever want a chance at getting a date this decade. GM Voices is a long-standing company recording voice prompts for companies. They are one of the most consistent companies I know in the telecom space — exhibiting at shows for about 15-20 years
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Asterisk Gets a Song
I just heard from a reliable source that Goldman Sachs bonuses have been switched from cash to stock. Recently the company announced this would be the case for those at the top of the organization but now my source tells me this will be the case for the whole company. With the massive government and public backlash against banks and the amount of their compensation, this seems like a very very smart move for Goldman.
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Breaking: Goldman Sachs Bonuses all Stock?
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on the web when a company demands to get paid for technologies which users may have thought were open.
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HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think