Category: Technology

Reading Time: 2 minutes I thought this problem for a while. Sometimes I heard people complained companies like Lego discriminate: their toys are more for boys than girls, so Lego came up this Lego friends series which is geared more toward girl, as they ranges from bakeries, beach house, to rain forest rescue, and they have a lot girl

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December 6, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes It seems the wifi router comes with AT&T u-verse does not work with Apple TV. Apple TV could not find the wifi network from the build in u-verse wifi router. I found one workaround, that is to turn off the build in Wifi, use an old wifi router (D-Link DI-524) for Wifi instead. But there

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September 20, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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

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February 6, 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Fox Business News (via Youtube). The journalist also talked about Google and Android OS used in nook.

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October 22, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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

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July 11, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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

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July 9, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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.

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May 8, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes (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

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April 20, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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

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October 9, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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

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September 7, 2007
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