The Academy Awards were on TV last night, and the many retrospective montages showing 80 years of film made me want to write something about why few of those movies are available legally online today. Remember all those promises back in the late 1990s about how the Internet would soon allow people to watch […]
Entries Tagged as 'India'
The (Slow) Race to Put Movies Online
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Broadband · Copyright · Fiber · India · Japan · TV · U.S.
The New Space Race, Part II: Lunar Photos or Hoax?
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Some Chinese bloggers are questioning whether a lunar photo taken by a Chinese satellite is real. The doubters claim that the photo was copied from an old NASA shot. The Chinese government has been quick to rebut the claims, pointing out moon craters that appear only in the Chinese photo and arguing they […]
Tags: China · Fun · India · Japan · Space · U.S.
The Coming WiMax Revolution May Start in India
January 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
India’s incumbent telecommunications company BSNL has just announced plans to deploy a mobile WiMax broadband network covering a region with a population of over 200 million people. Mobile WiMax (a.k.a. IEEE 802.16e-2005) is a technology for delivering very fast wireless data communications over long distances. Download speeds on BSNL’s network are expected to […]
Tags: Broadband · India · Mobile
The New Space Race, Part I: India
December 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Reading a Wired article about China, Japan, and other countries racing to put humankind back on the moon, one would think that such efforts were only about the rights to claim some lunar resources and national pride. But the cold war, which provided the backdrop for the U.S. / Russian space race of the […]
