Tuesday, April 22, 2003

More than half the world's hotspots?


South Korea's Hot Spots.

10.7 million households, or 70% of the total in a population of 48 million have fixed line broadband connections in South Korea. In the last 18 months, KT Corp, South Korea's biggest broadband and Wi-Fi player, has set up 8,500 wireless commercial local-area networks, or hot spots. That's more than half the world's total, according to international IT research firm IDC.
Half the World's Hot Spots

[Smart Mobs]

Mind boggles. What do people do with all those cheap connections?


9:20:58 PM  #  

Just change it


SCM and Agile Development. Crossroads News April 2003 issue is about Agile Development and SCM. This month the Crossroads News writers discuss the issues surrounding SCM for agile development projects and how to make SCM itself be more agile. We also welcome author and SCM evangelist Brad Appleton as our newest Contributing Editor with his regular column Agile SCM.... [bob mcwhirter]

To me "agile" means fast changes (and undos).  Isn't it strange that much of software development effort must be devoted to large and small issues in support and infrastructure like SCM/VCS, build systems, file system layouts, naming conventions, etc?


9:16:42 PM  #