Hop 255

The Million Dollar Homepage

The Million Dollar Homepage is here. It can be read about here. Hop255 randomly clicked through to a UK purveyor of emu oil.

WiMax for Xmas

A new WiMax deployment in NZ is written up here.

Skype Upgrades Pocket PC Edition

Skype has upgraded it Pocket PC software. More here.

Let them sing it for you

Let them sing it for you is a fun tool which enables user to write lyrics with each individual word then sung by well known artists. Hop255 tried Keat's Ode to a Nightgale and Rock Around the Clock with mixed results. Great fun!

Yahoo and VoIP

The VoIP story of the week was obviously Yahoo's announcement of an Internet telephony service interconnecting with the PSTN. Meanwhile not all ebay vendors are reported to be enthusiastic about the use of Skype.

More growth in Indian telecoms

Another article documenting growth in the Indian telecoms market since liberalisation including growth in Internet access and broadband. The best place for statistics on Indian telecoms is at the regulator's website.  Unlike the rope trick, described in Peter Lamont's new book, it seems like it is really happening this time.

Dot Asia

ICANN appears to have given the go ahead for dot asia. Official announcement here. Dot scot next?

Broadband Speed Ranking

From time to time Hop255 glances at the bandwidth test on the Greengrass site. The results from earlier in the year are here. The most notable change is Australia dropping out of the top ten and being replaced by Canada and the US dropping from second to tenth. It would be interesting to know the sample size. Here are the results from December 4th, 2005.

Average for Top 10 Countries
	KR	5.54 Mbps
	DE	3.12 Mbps
	JP	1.88 Mbps
	IT	1.86 Mbps
	FR	1.84 Mbps
	CN	1.81 Mbps
	BE	1.77 Mbps
	CA	0.98 Mbps
	UK	0.83 Mbps
	US	0.63 Mbps

Dot Scot

ICANN has given the go ahead for dot cat (.cat for the Catalan region of Spain), and .eu for Europe will start operation, soon so why not dot scot.   One the other hand, why anyone would want to go through this process defies belief.

Meanwhile Hop255 is not sure this will solve the world's Internet governance debate but good luck to dot love.

Podjacking

The new phenomenon of podjacking is described here.