Entries from July 2007

31 July, 2007

Startup Trend & Knowledge Focused Search - startupper.info

I am a keen follower on the IT startups. I like to read about them and have some critical thoughts as a hobby.
On my RSS feed reader, I have subscribed many startup news blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable, Gigaom, Ycombinator News , Startupping forum and many others too long to list.
After subscribing to so many [...]

29 July, 2007

Google Apps’ Massive Achilles’ heel - Missing Contacts Synchronization

How can Google Apps attract more small businesses and enterprises to come on board without a management feature for the most fundamental asset in communication?
What is the most important thing on my mobile phone? Sim card? No, Address Book. What is the most important thing in my Gmail account other than the emails? Email addresses [...]

27 July, 2007

Sony. Experience More - Sydney Exhibition event

I was given a free ticket by a friend to go to the “Sony. Experience More” at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour - basically a marketing event showcasing the cutting edge electronic products by Sony. The following are a few impressions I made.
1. OLED TV

There were probably a thousand products on the floor [...]

25 July, 2007

OLPC, US$100 Laptop - consumer market killer?

OLPC is a great initiatives for producing US$100 laptops for the education of the children in third world countries. Lately, there are words about it to be made available for consumer market at US$350 or US$525. Considering the mass (as in producing in millions) manufacturing cost is reportedly at US$175. Maybe the 100%+ markup sounds [...]

25 July, 2007

First Post of the year

Actually rather the first post of the new Australian financial year. I have been trying to blog for a number of times but every time I am not persistent enough and given up very shortly after starting.
But as I am distancing myself from being young (aka getting OLDER), it seems that I always cannot remember [...]