Core Infrastructure by Yi-Jian Ngo

October 2007 - Posts

• 01:15 AM Saturday, October 27, 2007
  Oct 27 Sat

  Security on a Stick

  During a meeting with a startup this week, the presenter's machine froze up mid-demo in a flurry of errors. Priming for the usual jibes about Windows stability, I was surprised when the blame was heaped instead on the PC's anti-malware/firewall software. Read More...
  Filed under: Security

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• 06:45 PM Saturday, October 20, 2007
  Oct 20 Sat

  Dual-Mode Hassles

  Connecting your mobile phone to a Wi-Fi network can be a dicey affair. First, you have to hope that the login page loads properly on your browser. Next, you have to fumble with punching in credentials on a tiny keypad. Devicescape has an elegant solution Read More...
  Filed under: Security, Mobility Tech, Unified Communications

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• 02:47 AM Sunday, October 14, 2007
  Oct 14 Sun

  Evil Encryption

  An old friend recently pinged me through Facebook asking for my contacts. She had lost everything on her hard disk, she explained. But this was no run-of-the-mill hard disk failure. Her computer had been infected with a strain of malware that had encrypted Read More...
  Filed under: Security

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• 03:22 AM Sunday, October 07, 2007
  Oct 07 Sun

  Bandwidth Arbitrage

  I pay $30/month for my 4Mbps internet connection at home. Yet many businesses pay about $1000/month for a 1.5Mbps WAN link between HQ and their branch office. How can this be? Yes, there are significant technical differences between my internet connection Read More...
  Filed under: Startup, Unified Communications

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• 01:06 PM Monday, October 01, 2007
  Oct 01 Mon

  The 4 Ps

  There are many more startups in the markets I cover than I have resources to invest in. So how do I arrive at my short list? One tool I use is the 4P framework - People, Product, Plan and Profits. People are the lifeblood of all startups. Entrepreneurs Read More...
  Filed under: prioritize, framework, filter, business plan, platform, selection, Entrepreneur, Systems Center

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