Trying to catch up with my RSS but I am going to point out the talk by by James Enck at Telco 2.0 called : Ten things I hate about you. Some of the ten things he mention arent new, stuff many people including myself have blog about in the last two years but heck, […]
Looking for AJAX programmers
Last year, I wrote about AJAX: “Oh, for programmers, I am sure AJAX programmers is going to be in demand.” Now, I am writing to look for AJAX programmers to work with me on a project. It will be a 1-2 month project that you can do your own free time. Yes, you will be […]
Xiamen Shanghai
Got into Xiamen at 1am in the morning, catch some sleep before going for my 9am meeting. Before I went to Xiamen (my first trip btw), a friend told me Xiamen is one of the best city in China. It is not as well developed as Shanghai or Beijing and it is a much smaller […]
Copper wire as fast as fiber?
A bit late but still interesting enough to repost here: Scienists found a way to squeeze more bits onto the copper that it is as fast as fiber. See Copper wire as fast as fiber? The group hopes that the answer will be found in the use of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) to boost DSL […]
Beijing 24 hours
Arrived in Beijing yesterday. After a long jam, finally arrived in Haidian District (海淀区), put down my lungage and then head off to Minzu Hotel for dinner with Andy Jacobs who happens to be in Beijing for a company party at the Great Wall tonight. Went to CNNIC this morning to catch up with catch […]
Industrial and Commerical Bank of China
A friend just pointed me to this article: ICBC’s indicative price range offers discount versus peers Price range indicates pre-greenshoe deal size of $15.9 billion to $19.1 billion for combined H and A share offering. The offering has the potential to become the world’s largest IPO. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has set a […]
On Iridum
Just posted a comment on BeyondSG (George Yeo blogs there btw) regarding Iridium. A Porsche for $750 bucks. Re-post here for archive purposes. I done a due diligence on Iridum for a banker in 2002. It was already pretty interesting back then. Iridium went backrupted in Aug 1999 and in Nov 2000 was bought out […]
Wifi Skype Phones
Just bought these babies…couldnt wait to blog about them. They are the standalone wifi skype phones from SMC and Netgear. Yep, standalone, ie no need for PC to work. In other words, I can use them in any hotspot. Yeah!! Original I thought Netgear and SMC are from the same manufacturer as reported in Gimozo […]
Success Build to Last
Success Build to Last by Jerry I. Porras, Mark Thompson, Stewart Emery The same author of Build to Last :)
Google buying Youtube
Market is buzzing with rumours that Google is making an offer for Youtube for US$1.6B. As of last checked, there are over 800 news article similar to the one on International Herald Tribune: The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall […]