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The rumors about Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) 3.0 has been around since last month. Apparently, it doesn’t take long for the rumor to turn to reality, where it is finally confirmed that BIS 3.0 will be first rolled out at North Americas at 28th March. For your info, BIS 3.0′s most anticipated enhancement is Gmail 2 way syncing from Blackberry device and Gmail itself.
It just a matter of time for BIS on other parts of the world will get upgraded. I hope it doesn’t take that long.
It’s known fact that human creativity is border-less. Here is how the creativity was applied to tech. Google Chrome looks and feels in Firefox, anyone? It is neat and pretty closed to Chrome, especially the forward and backward button, refresh and Home button. Even the page tab is quite closed, but because of the page tab implementation in Firefox and Chrome is different, the end result is not too closed. Thanks to TylerC that develop this theme, called Chromifox.
As a matter of fact, Google Chrome is third most used web browser, behind only Firefox in term of market share.
Google looks very happy with Androids Market which is now the home to 30,000 something apps and it will continue to increase unstoppably. But Google forgot that, there are still lots of Android users without access to Android Market, from their very first Android Smartphone especially in SEA areas.
Except Singapore, Android phones shipped to countries such as Malaysia comes without Android Market by default. Instead, it was bundled with some lame app store that has very limited and outdated app. Most can only dream to have apps such Gesture Search that recently made its way to Android 1.6. Keep dream on guys!
Although Android can be rooted with custom made ROM , not everyone is willing to risk their almost 1.5K investment. Additionally, not every Android user is a geek, that has skills and knowledge to get that done.
I can’t understand why Android Market missed from phone shipped to certain countries, when others can have it.. Why can Apple or Nokia make their App Store and Ovie store available throughout the world without restriction? Is this something to do with regulations? Or it this because the phone manufacturer decides not to do so because Google says so?
I’ve grown frustrated with how Android phone is distributed here, not to Android itself. Waiting for HTC Magic which currently runs on Android 1.6 to get official upgrade to Android 2.0 at least, is another thing that keeps you awake in the middle of the night (just kidding). Until all issues with Android Market or Android OS upgrade being sort out with related parties, HTC Magic is gonna be the last Android phone I’ll ever have.
Everyday, we rely on technology in many aspect of our life. That’s includes to get things done properly, entertaining us or even making us looks fair. It is not a secret that we have some kind of favoritism toward any product that produce highly satisfaction to us in any kind of form, such as design, color, the ecosystem, coolness, usefulness or simpleness.
We used to memorize the favorite brand, but we tend to forgot the technology behind that product. To some extent we don’t even want to know or come to our mind, who contribute or create the technology behind it? Haven’t you? Don’t feel bad though, that is just too normal for us as human.
Ever head of this guys called, Aaron Dietrich? Nope, some to you I guess. Ever heard of Microsoft? Yes. Ever heard of Windows 7? Yes, I use them, but why, does he invent it? Nope, this is not the guys that single handed creating Windows 7. But the works from Aaron and his team has leads to faster Windows 7 start or ‘boot’ as some of us more familiar with. He is the team lead that tasked to give Windows 7 start a boost.
Usually, the first things comes to mind about Windows operating system is sluggish, especially the start up time. Yes, damn slow to start after install it with may app or running for 2-4 years. There is joke that the first thing, you should do once come to the office, is turn on the Windows running computer and only then make some coffee, because making coffee is faster than Windows.
Aaronn Dietrich is featuring in Microsoft’s story titled The Man Behind the Windows 7′s Fast Start. I stumbled that story recently and found it quite interesting. It is an interview with this guy that cover variety of topic which included the roles, team work and Windows 7 itself.
So what made Windows 7 to start fast? According to Aaron “There were a couple of key features that allowed us to get better boot times. The first was we introduced what we call the fast boot feature, which allows some parts of boot to happen in the background while Windows is discovering and initializing devices. That helped us gain up to 25 percent of our boot time over Windows Vista, depending on the hardware.The other big one was that we significantly reduced the size of the operating system required to be read from disk in order to boot. Whereas Windows Vista required somewhere on the order of 220 to 240 megabytes of operating system code to boot, Windows 7 requires anywhere from 140 to 180 megabytes, depending on the configuration of the system”
The explanation made the feature sound simple but I believe it is hard to be implemented. Otherwise Vista is not such a disaster to Microsoft. You see, even the boot require 140 to 180 Mb amount of code, which is equivalent to 28-36 songs. Now I start to wonder, do they test Vista’s startup time before it was released? For Windows 7, what happen after additional software and hardware were added, does that grows the amount of code as well?
Need sometime to figure that out. At the mean time, please read the full interview.
Last Thursday, Gmail turn 5, a quite achievement for the Gmail team. Human at this old, has enrolled to kindergarten, started to learn letters and reading, mathematics and etc. Brilliant kids do much greater things, including solving complex mathematics for instance .
But Gmail is not human, although it was invented by human.. genius human being. It has changed how mailbox suppose to be, beyond its traditional function of sending and reading email. Gmail has transformed email to the extent, that it was like other not an email application, which is great. You can chat, create and manage task and many more. But it still not free from outage, which hurt millions of users.
Take all these as lesson to improve it further. Keep up all the good work!
