During the week of 2-7 October, I was participating at the CeBIT Eurasia İstanbul fair on behalf of my partner companies BiometriCS and TürkTrust. Overall we had a great time, meeting new people, acquiring new business opportunities, and of course checking out the new technologies.
Lots of pictures were taken, here is a sample of them them.
It seems as though all the negative campaigns against Türk Telekom has paid off. They announced today that virtually all the ADSL pakets they offer will see speed increases of 400%.
Hurray! No more 256Kbit crap!
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I’m going to write about what happened on the way back from work today.
I came upon the car of a popular driving school in Ankara, namely, Başkent Sürücü Kursu. I was generally on the lookout these days for a good driving school for my brother, and it was easy to notice with internet addresses etc written on the car.
And here is what happened next:
Yes, this same company is supposed to teach new drivers to an already disgusting traffic. Well Done.
A few days ago, OECD announced the state in which broadband is in around the globe. Not suprisingly, the Turkish telecommunication monopoly Türk Telekom is announced as providing the most expensive internet in the world with around $81US per Mbit/s. Japan has the cheapest with only $0.22US, yes, that is 22 cents compared to 81 dollars.
The reason for this is that Japan now uses fiber-optic lines, delivered to every home while most other countries, including Turkey, still use the traditional copper telephone wires. The Turkish infrastructure is especially outdated, with still ADSL being used instead of ADSL2+.
Transformers, The Movie has finally arrived at cinemas worldwide. My youth has passed with Transformers toys, Transformers cartoons, Transformers comics, etc… So I was thrilled to see them once again, in brilliant CG with live action characters. There was no way that movie was not going to impress me!
Needless to say, the movie is great, the effects and the transformers are done really well. You don’t get to see a lot of action or transformation during the first half, but it still is worth it to hear Optimus Prime, who is being voice acted by the original Peter Cullen. They included the line from the first animated movie: “One shall stand, one shall fall” which began the all time epic battle between Prime and Megatron.
