April 28th, 2008 — Experiences
The Vanitha article about “Mobile phones and Blue Truth”, that contains so called real stories, provoked me to write my previous post
http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/04/25/vanitha-internet-and-the-mobile-phone/
Thanks to the readers for pointing out some examples of stinking journalism that the Malayala Manorama group does.
The first one, their sting operation in which they send some girls to provoke men and collect evidence that all men are molesting women in buses and and at night. The girls had some bad experience from a bus depot at night, and they generalised that we are all sex predators.
The same Malayala Manorama group publishes a magazine “The Man”, which deals with topics like Threesome, Erotic Love, India’s hottest bikini girls and lots and lots of pictures of semi nude girls. They publish “The Man” at one hand and on the other they write about women being used as a commodity.
There was a news report in their channel and it said “Bluetooth, the poison tooth”. They were describing bluetooth as technology to transfer blue films. There are millions of people who trust these publications and its really sad to see them giving such idiotic reports.
The same group once described all private buses that run to Bangalore as a place enjoy with your girl friend, where you have one nights total freedom, without having to worry about anyone.
They are successful in their mission. A friend of mine from cochin told me that her mom took away her mobile after reading the Vanitha article. Mom also commented - “Will give you your mobile when you get married”.
Every technology that can be used, can be misused. Not just the internet and the mobile phone, the print media also. And the best example of paper being misused is Vanitha and the Malayala Manorama.
After having said all this, Id like to congratulate every parent who still trusts their children with internet and mobile phones. Your kids will defenitly value your trust and it will give the confidence they need to live in this world.
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April 15th, 2008 — Wibree
Wibree, now known as Ultra Low Power Bluetooth saw its first working demo today. CSR, the chip manufacturer successfully demonstrated data transfer between 2 dual mode bluetooth chips. The venue was a medical conference in Luxembourg.
The chips will be commercially available from this year itself. I hope to see a lot of cell phones are wrist watches with wibree technology in the market. This would pave way to a whole new set of products are services.
Wibree is 50 times faster than Bluetooth and because of that reason itself, the power consumption drops. Also the protocol has been stripped down of unnecessary overheads and tailor made to transfer short bursts of data. A single cell battery is expected to give a wibree product a running time of 10 years.
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January 24th, 2008 — MobMe
Mobme is a complete web 2.0 company and our products and services follow the philosophy of user participation and enhanced end user experience. Now here is another product from us that makes events go 2.0.
The product, still unnamed can be installed on a PC or a laptop with a bluetooth dongle or built in bluetooth device. Once installed mobile users near the PC or laptop can send in pictures via bluetooth this software and after screening the image will appear on the projector screen.
If a college event uses this software, the audience can also participate by sending in pictures taken live at the event or pictures that are relevant to the event to be shown on the projector. Now thats really Events 2.0.
This is one usage scenario and users are free to come up with more ideas. After using the software, please report bugs. New feature requests are also welcome.
This software requires the latest version of .NET Framework. Install it before you install the software.
Here is the download link.
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November 26th, 2007 — BarCamp
The first Barcamp in Kerala was a great success with 70+ attendees. There were 9 really good sessions.
- Mobshare Opensocial app by Kenney Jacob (thats me)
- Simple game development in Ruby by Vishnu Gopal
- Bluetooth Home Automation Demo by Harikrishanan
- Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin
- Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev
- Computer Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin by Jidhu
- Open Network Project by Linoy
- Android by Renjith
- PHP Wiz by Sreekanth
The next one is also being planned. Check out the wiki page.
http://barcamp.org/BarCampKerala2
Add yourselves to the wiki.
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November 25th, 2007 — MobMe
We launched the first bluezone in India at Barista, Cochin. The Zone features a Bluetooth enabled kiosk which will allow a mobile user to download free mobile wallpapers, ringtones, applications and games. Similar kiosks will be launched in all major malls an coffee shops across India. Go and check out the kiosk at Barista, BayPride mall, Cochin.
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