Posted on Friday, 22nd June 2007 by Jimmy Auw

Tall building is everywhere. Yup, no surprise here since land price is too expensive. People tends to build building vertically than horizontally. Welcome the skycrappers!

Few days ago, during Computex at Taipei, my friend send me a photo. The similiar photo can be seen below (I took the photo from somewhere on the net).

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Posted on Saturday, 2nd September 2006 by Jimmy Auw

I’ve just watched the “Snake on the Plane”. Well, I saw some interesting (but not a new innovation) on the movie: The in-movie commercial.

On one scene, the FBI agent (forgot the name) wanted to identify the snake to his boss. But it was hard for him to inform his boss about the snake just by describing the snake’s color. One of the passenger told him that she could send an e-mail with the photo inside. The others complained that she needed a computer and digital camera to do that. She replied that “This could do that!” and showed her Treo 600 or 650 (it’s a Palm based PDA with digital camera).

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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd August 2006 by Jimmy Auw

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 Jimmy Auw

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 Saturday, 5th August 2006 by Jimmy Auw

If you have been in this world for at least 15 years, I’m sure you know what is “Walkman” refers to. At that time, maybe you didn’t know who is Nokia.

But now, Nokia is the biggest handset player in the world, in terms of money, unit sold, and perhaps, unit’s varians. They are now entering new market, about audio player in handset.

Yes, every handset maker has decided to include this feature into their handset. But we will discuss only two brand. First, the Sony (Ericsson) with its Walkman phone. Second, the Nokia due to their position as largest handset manufacturer.

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Posted on Wednesday, 26th July 2006 by Jimmy Auw

Last night, I saw a good movie on local TV. Actually, that was one of my favorite movie, with title Swordfish. I believe most of you have seen this movie, eh? I have seen this movie few times, and this movie really impresses me much. Not because of the scenes or the actors/actresses, but the path and logic from the movie itself.

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