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COnvergence of Content, Communication, and COmputing

Posted by Ramesh on December 31st, 2004

In the last two months media has been talking a lot about video search.  Video search is always considered in the context of TV programs.  Since TV and Movies have become such an important part of the modern society, even in developing countries, media finds video search to be very attractive.  Lately there have been [...]

Year 2004

Posted by Ramesh on December 31st, 2004

Every year in our life is different.  Every year enriches our life throughdifferent experiences.  And a year is long enough in our life-span tobring some good things, some not so good things, and some bad things. 2004 ended with a major disaster in the world — the tsunami resultingfrom the 9.0 earthquake near Sumatra.  The [...]

Using Camera in Phones

Posted by Ramesh on December 27th, 2004

You do hear problems with mobile phones such as taking pictures illegally, disturbing others in public places, causing accidents and similar things.  I am sure that most inventions can, and usually are, used by people wrong ways and then the society finds ways to control the uses either using legal or social methods.  And mobile [...]

Back from India — Xmas presents

Posted by Ramesh on December 25th, 2004

My India trip went well.  I came back on late evening on 21st.  Sudha also came back with me – but our flights starting with Nagpur were different.  We did meet in Mumbai and spend two days together, and then meet in Paris for 3 hours at the airport and then arrived in San Diego [...]

Personal Communicator and Computer ( PCC)

Posted by Ramesh on December 9th, 2004

The rate at which mobile phones are changing is remarkable.  Samsung recently introduced a camera phone with 1 megapixels and 1.5GB hard drive.   Now Panasonic has announced that they will market a chip for mobile phones that will have a sensor, DSP, lens, and infra red focusing system without adding any bulk to the phones.  [...]