Posted on Tuesday, 22nd August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Well, we have heard the news. Asus works together with Gigabyte to build a new company. On 2007, they will produce motherboard and graphics card with Gigabyte’s brand. What makes this thing so interesting?

It’s unlikely to see Tom and Jerry to sit together, right? Or, perhaps you will be surprised if you see Tweety and Sylvester eat on the same table. But in business, two enemies may sit together to fight against bigger enemy. This is the real example based on my own analysis. Most of my analysis are based on the rumors, so the truth should be accepted as-is.
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Printed media business is booming last year (and early this year). Everyone who has extra money to be invested will look for this field (in my country, Indonesia precisely – I don’t know abroad). Well, why not? This business promises quite fast break even period. Very interesting!

I’m not surprised with this phenomena. I will tell you the secret why this business could be looked so interesting and why I’m saying that it’s near its end.
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Posted on Friday, 18th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

When you see or hear MP3, what’s the first thing on your mind? iPod? Perhaps We have to admit that iPod is very sensational in terms or brand awareness. For sound quality, I think we easily can see others MP3 player with same or even better sound quality.

I just visited Samsung’s factory yesterday and got their new MP3 player, Yepp YP-U2 fresh from the oven. FYI, this MP3 was built here in Indonesia. I saw myself the production of this player, but simply it’s out of our scope to discuss it.

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Posted on Saturday, 12th August 2006 by Auw Jimmy

This post is calling opera users. Maybe almost of computers users know the “Undo” function. And perhaps most of them know how to use it (usually you will clik “Edit” from top pull-down menu and choose “Undo”). Maybe some of you know that this function also can be called by using “Ctrl-Z” keyboard shortcut combination

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Posted on Friday, 21st July 2006 by Auw Jimmy

Later this year, we will have a DIY Notebook around the market. The 7 main components like cover/panel, LCD, battery, adapter, hard disk, optical drive, and keyboard are replaceable. In other words, all brands that have joined this consortium (some say that there are 50 brands already join this consortium) should have same design so these 7 parts will be interchangeable.

Few days ago, I had some discussion about this with my colleague.
The question is simple, about the future of DIY Notebook. Will this business be a new booming and trend as DIY PC (we call them as “PC rakitan” or “non build-up PC”)? Will this business be able to compete with branded notebook?

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