iPhone trademark battle over

Finally, the debate over the trademark for “iPhone” between Cisco and Apple is over. They have reached an agreement to use the trademarks in distinct businesses. I was reading about it, and cursing Apple for violating business ethics, but as it’s said, Steve Jobs always gets his way. Couple of places I have heard a […]

Getting your hair cut and getting your software done

I went to my regular hair salon last saturday. Went into the take the first chair on my way, but the hairdresser asked me to sit on the next one. This was a new guy, I have never seen him before. I have a little apprehension about how good a cut he will give me, […]

Alternative to FMS

Saw Wowza Media Systems‘ offering today – an alternative to Flash Media Server. It looks good, comes much cheaper ($5000 for unlimited connections), supports server side scripting and remote shared objects, and runs on multiple platforms. Is free for 10 connections. But looking at the tech details, it may be a memory / CPU hogger. […]

PHP has come a long way!

Read a note on Joel On Software about Language Wars. Someone asked him about the language to choose for his next project. And Joel mentions (on the language war): These debates are enormously fun and a total and utter waste of time, because the bottom line is that there are three and a half platforms […]