Starhub home zone using femtocell

Interesting technology being marketed by Starhub in Singapore.

To follow the McK model of presentation (heh)...

What you get: For 16$ a month, free local calls and SMS for 4 mobile phone lines when you are physically in your house

Who might benefit the most:

- Those who use their mobile phones a lot at home paying 15cents/min

- Those who take a lot of conf. calls from home on their mobile

- Families who always cannot share the single fixed-line with the teen yakking away all the time on it

Basically a femtocell is a 3G to internet gateway. You will need a starhub mobile line and broadbank internet connection

Mobile phone<---3G--->Femotcell<---tcp/ip--->Broadband router<---tcp/ip--->cable modem

This basically ties into my >earlier post on Skype on iPhone... Mobile carriers are slowly becoming funnelers of internet protocol data over their network protocol (3G/4G). 

This is huge.. Mobile carriers become just data pipe companies

Skype will be launching the app on the Apple appstore tomorrow.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/30/skype-for-iphone-officially-official

"Are you prepared to have your mind blown? As expected, Skype for iPhone will appear “sometime Tuesday” and allow you to make VoIP calls to friends and family all over the world, a move that at once blows a great waft of flatulence in the face of the carriers and, in one smooth motion, high fives the international community of Skype users.

It should be available from the App Store for free.

You obviously cannot make a Skype call over 3G or EDGE but you can make VoIP calls over Wi-Fi. The system also meshes with your iPhone contacts and allows you to filter and search based on users who already have Skype accounts and even make SkypeOut calls, again under Wi-Fi."

Sunday morning rant

Called delifrance home delivery in the morn, and was greeted by a clammy "Bonjour Monsieur". 

I hate this foreign love. You are in Singapore.. Speak in English motherf...

Same goes to Audi. When selling overpriced cars in Singapore don't end your commercials with "Vorsprung durch Technik"

Stay hungry, stay foolish

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Worlds largest model RC plane

Very busy over next few days

Your truly has just realized a couple of things...
1.) He has to send 3 separate presentations to some very senior people by Monday morning CET as his boss is on vacation; But he has realized it just now after doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on Saturday lazing around watching entire series of "Allo Allo" and "Boomtown" with his house mate. Sunday is gone now...
2.) One of the products he runs has a "hotfix" release. Normally support staff will take care of this themselves. But this being a fix affecting a HUGE customer, his business-counterparts and operations staff will be doing testing on Sunday before the customer starts on Monday. So naturally, being the "face of the product" (heh!), yours truly has to front hourly calls from morning CET to probably night CET (his early morning) to provide status reports.

Net result: Sunday and Monday are completely fscked. I won't even have time to go to the gym...

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Better than the original I daresay.... Perfect voice for the song...

How do you know that finance has taken over the country?

When everybody knows what a basis point is...

God and Larry Ellison

Q: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?
A: God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison