Reading Time: < 1 minute This morning I need to drop my car at repair shop for the day. Not wanting to walk back, or disturb my friend, I decided to ride the bus. I did some research about the bus last night. I used the trip finder to find the route, schedule. I tried it: from “Olive Blvd at

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June 29, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute From YouTube, author: the iPhone blog BTW, I found other blackberry videos at YouTube to be good (authors: phonescoop, crackberry).

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June 28, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday was another brutal day in the Wall Street, or the Bay Street (Toronto), or SSE (Shanghai Securities Exchange). According to the number, the Dow is now officially in bear territory. General Motor (NYSE:GM), a Dow component and an American icon, hit 53 years low. It closed at $11.43. So, should we go bottom fishing?

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June 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t have a smartphone, but I used to have Palm m100 (original), and Palm Tungsten E. I did not use it for power point, calendar or anything serious, the main functionality I used is its real player. It got 128 M SD card, so I can store about 30 songs on it. Today’s smart

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June 27, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bear case RIM (Nasdaq: RIMM) missed both top line and bottom line in Q1, and issued not so strong outlook for Q2. Read news from Reuters for more details. Q1 revenue is $2.24 b vs. expected $2.27 b; earning was $0.84 vs. 0.85. While I think missing of bottom line is understandable because of spending

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June 26, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute I did not take too seriously of iPhone when it was launched a year ago. But I was wrong. My initial thought Apple jumped into the mobile phone world with a touch screen smart phone, with way too much fan fare (remember the Ads on CNBC, CNN etc?). Well, now I think it set a

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June 25, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes K-touch (Tianyu 天宇or天语, benephon), a Chinese Shanzhaiji maker a few years ago, reached the top spot in domestic brands (in terms of sales). It sold 17 million handsets last year, beating all the big boys (Ningbo Bird, Xiameng Amoi, Lenovo Handset), and plans to sell 30 millions this year. Recently it also raised 530 m

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June 24, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minute We only need two, according to Buffett, at 2008 shareholder Q&A session (transcript at GuruFocus). Note Q5, WB answer, he noted the following two courses: 1) how to value a business; 2) how to think about stock market fluctuations. I think the first one is obvious, all the accounting, financial and quantitative skills. The second,

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June 23, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutes When I say a mutual fund manager, what kind of personality (impression) appears in your mind? A guy or a lady in his/her 40s, with financial education, 10 years or more experience in investment field… This is not the case in China. Due to the boom of China stock market in recent years, and the

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June 22, 2008
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