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ios 4.0.1: Seems to (partially) fix the irritating proximity sensor bug

Arjun — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:50:02 +0000

(Update July 16: Nope. Better, but still messed up. See update below) So I just patched my iphone 4 with ios 4.0.1. While consumers, and specifically tech sites were going nuts about the reception, I just installed the bumper and it fixed the problem for me. That was pretty much a non issue with me [...]

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Facetime on Iphone 4: Vanilla unencrypted STUN and SIP

Arjun — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:55:25 +0000

(July 13: sorry for the downtime, looks like my bandwidth limits were exceeded. Upgraded my hosting package – fixed) (note: Only the call part is Vanilla SIP. The procedure for registering a Facetime user into their servers etc. is all non-SIP, encrypted/ciphered.) (for my user review of the iphone4 and bumper read here) Well heck, [...]

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IPhone 4 Review

Arjun — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:36:42 +0000

(Updated Jun 30 with iphone 4 bumper strip review) I was one of the 600,000 people who managed to get in their iphone 4 orders on day one, before all the servers collapsed. So anyway, I got my iphone 4 yesterday (Fedex dropped it in at around 11:30 in the morning). Here is my brief [...]

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My interview at the SmartGrid Summit: South Miami, 2010

Arjun — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:20:32 +0000

Live from TMCnet ITEXPO 2010 (Miami, Florida) Interviews with Arjun Roychowdhury, Asst. Vice President at Hughes Systique Corp (HSC). HSC is a HUGHES company, an industry leader in IP and communications technology. (recorded at 2010-01-21 12:04:39) click HERE if the video below does not show up.

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Air-India: The Maharajah experience?

Arjun — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:21:16 +0000

As a frequent traveler, I’ve flown several airlines to several places. However, the one airline I’ve categorically avoided in the past is India’s own Air-India (AI) for international travel. I guess it’s because pretty much all my life, I’ve only heard bad things about its service, quality of airlines etc from my parents , their [...]

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More tweeting, less blogging

Arjun — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:17:58 +0000

I finally get why people tweet. It lets you speak your mind the way it is, without requiring you to make a paragraph out of it. When I blog, I think, then form, then rehearse then post. When I tweet, I think and tweet. The link between my thoughts and the tweets is more direct. [...]

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The power of estimation

Arjun — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:25:57 +0000

XKCD has a hilarious cartoon on “Estimation”. I just burst out laughing when I read the footnote. If you are a windows user, you will burst out laughing too.

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Switching from Blackberry 8800 to Iphone 3Gs: For Business Use

Arjun — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:29:18 +0000

After 4 years of serious Blackberry 8700 and 8800 use, my wife convinced me to switch to the sexier iphone. I was pretty wary knowing it is not very good for business usage. However, my wife’s prime interest was to get me off the keypad while driving. To her dismay, I am now an expert [...]

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Chrome OS: A Web OS ?

Arjun — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:54:17 +0000

There has been a lot of posts and flutter on Google’s new purported Chrome OS and how it will be a great battle with Microsoft, how it will confuse and/or kill Android etc. And also, of course, taking off from the Google Blog on Chrome OS “For application developers, the web is the platform. All [...]

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Google Chrome OS: Vaporware and really, let

Arjun — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:29:42 +0000

So yesterday, Google finally announced it is getting into the “OS” business with Chrome OS. Similar to Google Wave, this one is also just an announcement (gee, it doesn’t even have a front page yet ) But anyway, here are my predictions on where this will go: The core OS will continue to be Linux based, with [...]

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