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One big complaints on the new iPad is its lack of multitasking support. From technical perspective, I think that’s because iPad will be use iPhone OS, currently at 3.2 beta, and it does not support multitasking. It does support iPod (listening to music) and another task such as browsing web though. Some developers speculate Apple [...]

From Fox Business News (via Youtube). The journalist also talked about Google and Android OS used in nook.

My logitech V200 mouse is more than 3 years old. Recently it acts a bit strange, basically the clicking does not work very well: for instance, when I intended clicking once, it will click twice, vice versa. So I was looking for a replacement for some time. I found the VX Nano is a good [...]

A while ago I wrote about Internet Safety. Last year MySpace/Facebook, Barack Obama (this is probably the bright side, if you believe Barack is a good guy) This year Twitter revolution, Iran; SMS (text message) + online BBS, Urumqi incident (what I call a terrorist attack/organized killing against innocent civilians); Cyber attacks, notice the recent [...]

nVidia got no love from the street these days. After yesterday’s earning (earning call here), the stock dropped more than 10% today amid weak (margin) forecast. This exemplifies that the market tends to be short sighted.

(Update) Many people (such as DBANotes) think IBM is the ultimate loser in the Sun/Oracle deal. I think the deal is not necessarily bad news for IBM. Here is my rationale. IBM did not win because: 1) Anti-trust concern. Sun and IBM together will have a very high share of both UNIX server and storage [...]

From Reuters, Hard disk pioneers won Physics nobel: France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces. My take: Hard disk has changed the way we live and work, as we can [...]

1) Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks, talked about competition from McDonald and Dokin Donuts. Starbucks is not an advertiser. If other companies are going to advertise and promote specialty coffee, Starbucks is going to benefit in the long term,” he said. 2) iPhone price cut and iPod touch launch: Steve Jobs announced Apple will cut [...]

I found some interesting articles about AT&T and IBM. They are written by Wu Jun, a research scientist at Google. I like Wu Jun’s writing style (humorous), and his business perspective of the two companies (very good). Here is the link to AT&T articles; and here is link to IBM series. Both are in Chinese, [...]

The other day I saw Charles Zhang Chaoyang on the “Boss town”, No. 1 Caijing’s (China-CBN) talk show between CEO and guest commentators. This reminded me that Chinese Internet companies are coming of age. Two interesting stories Charles told on the show: 1) Two MIT professors are the earliest investors for Sohu, they put in [...]