Google Chrome which was released as beta last September is now ready for primetime. That's, ah, fast. I thought this would stay in beta for at least a year. Look at Gmail which has stayed in perpetual beta for 4 years.
I've been using Firefox for many years. Now, it's time to seriously try Chrome. Oh wait, it's only available in Windows?
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Free security software from Microsoft
Microsoft to offer free security
That means OneCare will cease and that Morro will be born (or already is).
And everybody is like, well, fine. They were just trying to make money of the mess they made anyway. Hehe.
Will this mean the end of free antivirus software such as my favorite AVG ?
We'll see.
In a surprise move, Microsoft has announced it will offer a free anti-virus and security solution from the second half of next year.
That means OneCare will cease and that Morro will be born (or already is).
And everybody is like, well, fine. They were just trying to make money of the mess they made anyway. Hehe.
Will this mean the end of free antivirus software such as my favorite AVG ?
We'll see.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Windows and Azure
For many, it is a Windows world out there. Microsoft has been accused of monopoly. It has dominated the desktop with its OS. And Bill Gates... the richest man in the world.
Recent tech innovations especially on the web has challenged its dominance (and I won't even talk about the open source projects here now). It seems like for the end-user, it doesn't really matter what OS is on the desktop or on the laptop, or whatever web-enabled device. What has become more important is the browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been challenged by Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc.
Lately, Google has challenged its MS Office suite with Google's online products especially with the Google Docs applications.
Maybe in the future MS will abandon Windows as its flagship product. Windows 7, the successor of Vista, will be free from bloat with only the essentials. Other application are to be downloaded on-demand. The OS even debuted on a netbook and (later). This is a move away from previous releases where Microsoft tried to provide almost everything out-of-the-box. They have even followed Google by introducing web-based Office programs.
Microsoft's launching of Azure is a clear indication that it is going into the cloud computing business. Azure is being dubbed the operating system of the internet. The first time I heard something similar to this was that The Browser Is The New Operating System.
On something closer to home...
Looking at Windows Azure I can't help but recall morph. Looks similar to me. Maybe it's all that cloud computing software-as-a-service stuff that are all new to me. There's even elastic compute cloud and its kin.
Not too long ago, I was just more used to client-server...
Recent tech innovations especially on the web has challenged its dominance (and I won't even talk about the open source projects here now). It seems like for the end-user, it doesn't really matter what OS is on the desktop or on the laptop, or whatever web-enabled device. What has become more important is the browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been challenged by Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc.
Lately, Google has challenged its MS Office suite with Google's online products especially with the Google Docs applications.
Maybe in the future MS will abandon Windows as its flagship product. Windows 7, the successor of Vista, will be free from bloat with only the essentials. Other application are to be downloaded on-demand. The OS even debuted on a netbook and (later). This is a move away from previous releases where Microsoft tried to provide almost everything out-of-the-box. They have even followed Google by introducing web-based Office programs.
Microsoft's launching of Azure is a clear indication that it is going into the cloud computing business. Azure is being dubbed the operating system of the internet. The first time I heard something similar to this was that The Browser Is The New Operating System.
On something closer to home...
Looking at Windows Azure I can't help but recall morph. Looks similar to me. Maybe it's all that cloud computing software-as-a-service stuff that are all new to me. There's even elastic compute cloud and its kin.
Not too long ago, I was just more used to client-server...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Infoweapons updates
Here are some updates since this article.
June 30, 2008. Infoweapons releases SolidIPConfig. It is an IPv6 configuration tool for Windows. It will help for a faster adoption of IPv6. It is free. It gives the company some presence in the free software world. And I haven't tried it yet. :)
July 4, 2008. InfoWeapons DNS appliance bags IPv6 Ready Gold certification. The product was previously certified IPv6 Ready Silver so this is basically an upgrade and more pogi points for the product. More information on the IPv6 Ready Logo program here.
Founder and chairman Lawrence Hughes has been very busy with speaking engagements everywhere. This is a good way to educate the world about IPv6 as well as an opportunity to pitch the company to the rest of the industry.
The IPv6 milestone set June 2008 came and passed by. There's no clear picture yet to me on whether it translated to $$ for IPv6 products vendors especially Infoweapons. It only required that equipments be able to speak IPv6; not that everybody should actually talk IPv6.
Staff
Many of my engineer-acquaintances from infoweapons are no longer there. They have 'jumped ship'. That is normal, I think, for a start-up.
These top people are no longer there also:
Steve Youngblood
Scott Kamp
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Taylor Banks
You can check their linkedin or their personal blogs.
My previous blogs have caught the attention of Matthew Caldwell, CTO of infoweapons. He and Takashi Togawa are currently leading the Cebu operations. I'm sure everybody's glad it's peace and we're not in the 1940's or they would be doing something else that involves bullets.
A new look
The website is now sporting a new look since maybe mid of this year. As well as new company logo.
I'm IPv6. I'm IPv4.
The 'battle' for IPv6 is still ongoing and going forward; and infoweapons will continue to be in the heart of it. Clearly, we will become IPv6. How soon is still to be determined. Maybe they have to have something like the “I'm a Mac. I'm a PC.” ads.
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Grade school history lesson - October 1944.
October 20. The U.S. invaded the island of Leyte, Philippines.
October 23-26. Over 6 decades ago, the Philippines was in the middle of the largest naval battle of World War II.
And today, I get my history lesson from wikipedia - Battle of Leyte Gulf.
October 20. The U.S. invaded the island of Leyte, Philippines.
October 23-26. Over 6 decades ago, the Philippines was in the middle of the largest naval battle of World War II.
And today, I get my history lesson from wikipedia - Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Morph Labs updates
There's been some exciting things happening at Morph Labs.
Products. Two of the products:
Morph AppSpace gives you an enterprise quality environment for a single Web application that includes automated deployment, private database, application delivery system, continuous backups, monitoring and ongoing administration.
Morph AppCloud is a managed service that provides an on-demand personalized platform in the cloud to support your organization’s multiple Morph AppSpace subscriptions. Morph AppCloud gives you more control and customization of your application and environment by bringing together people, process automation, and technology to deploy, deliver, and manage Web applications.
IPO
It's been reported that Morph Labs will have an IPO sometime this year. Last March, AO Capital announced the close of US$1.5M pre-IPO investment in Morph Labs. Basically, that means $$ that can be used for expansion, R&D, employee benefits, or whatever. Although the company delayed the IPO (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080527-139148/Morph-Labs-delays-IPO), I still think that it will be the first software company in the Philippines to go public. Good for you.
More news and events here.
And to my fellow IT profs, it's a good idea to join them.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
profiling infoweapons
This company interests me. It is trying to do a Silicon Valley style business model in the Philippines. Although its HQ is in the U.S., its main R&D center is in Cebu City, Philippines.
It's developing IPv6 products. Today's internet runs on IPv4 engines. It is (claimed to be) inevitable that an upgrade to IPv6 engines is needed.
This is an attempt at profiling the company by identifying some persons related with it.
Other local companies that interest me are morph and exist . These are next in line for "profiling".
All the information here are gathered through google.
From the management page of the company:
From this presentation:
Management (not listed above):
Others.
The following are search results that say they are working for the company. Others are just e-mail addresses.
There. This is just by looking at google results. I personally know some of the guys above. You should try this sometime and will be fascinated with the results.
It's developing IPv6 products. Today's internet runs on IPv4 engines. It is (claimed to be) inevitable that an upgrade to IPv6 engines is needed.
This is an attempt at profiling the company by identifying some persons related with it.
Other local companies that interest me are morph and exist . These are next in line for "profiling".
All the information here are gathered through google.
From the management page of the company:
- Lawrence Hughes, Chairman, Founder and Chief Software Architect
- Luis Gopez, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Takashi Togawa , President and Chief Operating Officer
- Matthew Caldwell, Chief Technology Officer
- Owen Greeson, Vice President Business Development
- Steve Youngblood, Vice President Sales and Marketing
From this presentation:
Management (not listed above):
- Director of R&D – Scott Kamp, lead of MicroBSD project, former Director of R&D with a firewall company
- InfoSec Officer – Oliver Cam, formerly InfoSec officer of mySecureSign (very strong security background)
- Project Management – Gerald St. Ana – was in charge of R&D at Japanese company based in Cebu (ADTX)
- Ronnel Maglasang – C/UNIX developer - was doing router development with NEC in Cebu Mepza
- Mars Miro – BSD OS Specialist
- Vincent Palingcod – MS & Crypto Developer
- Dino Madarang – Senior PHP Developer
- Paolo Venegas – Junior PHP Developer
- Shelley Madarang – Web Design, Usability Engineering
- Archie Gaviola – IPv6 Network Engineer
- Ivan Sy – Instructor, Network Engineer, QA
Others.
The following are search results that say they are working for the company. Others are just e-mail addresses.
- http://paul.buetow.org/ who runs http://www.buetow.org/ http://infoweapons.de/ http://blog.buetow.org/
- Taylor Banks http://ipv6.to/blogs/
- maddog http://mannyamador.multiply.com/links/item/3, most http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?page_id=2 entries are by him
- dbarte at infoweapons.com (Dioscoro Barte)
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/artiskool
- simon at infoweapons.com (Simon Cornelius P. Umacob) http://blog.simoncpu.com/ http://simoncpu.stumbleupon.com/ http://simoncpu.multiply.com/ http://techblog.simoncpu.com/
- jgomez (AT) infoweapons (DOT) com
- Gina Marie M. Capatar, Tech Writer of Infoweapons Corporation
- Shannon S. Dawn Procurement, Administrator of Infoweapons
- Ace R. Bul-anon, QA Engineer of Infoweapons
- Maritess B. Malazarte, Soft Engineer of Infoweapons
- http://susansantinor.multiply.com/profile
There. This is just by looking at google results. I personally know some of the guys above. You should try this sometime and will be fascinated with the results.
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