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Be A True Consultant (Not An Insultant!)

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To differentiate between a truly great consultant (which brings real insights, great perspectives, innovation, hands-on experiences and truly breakthrough-yet-practical ideas to the plate), and -- what I called -- a true 'insultant' -- those snake oil salesmen selling best practices with the goal to make every company the same, is really the first major step that every business need to do in engaging a successful consulting initiative.

With proper choice in place, consulting process could become something worthy and powerful to be engaged with; without it, it would all simply would become a great waste of time.

In this excellent post, Idris Moote take a great insight from Peter Drucker which explains why the profession of a management consultant is important; how the presence of a real great consultant is major; what a truly great consultant could fill in within the 'gap' areas that the business practitioner and its management can not (or shall not) do themselves; and why -- in engaging with these consultants -- it is always important and critical to always choose the best.

Here's the link to the whole piece: http://tinyurl.com/cch4dw

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Teal OS - Turn Old Palm Into A 'Pre' !

This operating system is pretty amazing, it's a low cost 'solution' that mimics the Palm Pre experience, and put it into the old Palm OS handphone!
 
For those who have seen the Palm Pre's Web OS running, this is extremely exciting.
 
The card-navigation concept is pretty smooth, the application scroller approach is pretty perfect, and best of all: the innovative navigation approach is definitely much better, much more exciting, much more useful, much more innovative, much more inspiring and much simpler than the clunckier half cooked 'honeycomb' windows approach.
 
Not the real perfect Pre OS yet, but overall it's a pretty exciting (and truly amazing) stuff to see!

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This Is Exciting!: Modular Data Center (From Sun)

Who says data center can not be put and establish in a snap?
 
Sun shows otherwise!
 
Despite whether Sun is going to be merged with IBM or not, this is still exciting development in the form factor, 'behavior', perspective and context of data centers.
 
You can read here for more: http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp
 
Truly awesome.

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Skype In The Big Screen! -- Totally Awesome!

For years Skype has been the best tool for people, family, business and colleagues to get connected and communicate anytime anywhere.
 
Now Skype just come out with a new innovation: Skype in the big screen! With it, we can see bigger video-pictures of our loved ones; yet with voice, video and sound quality that is still as good as Skype's excellent sound and excellent video quality this far.
 
The great thing about this new layout and approach is that now we can conduct (and manage) our communication and interaction space better, simpler and far more easily. Chat and voice functionality is even more seamlessly integrated; everything is even better coordinated. Such make Skype even better platform to keep intouch anytime anywhere, from where ever we are, wherever we go!
 
Currently Skype 4.0 (the big screen version) is available only for Windows computers. But give it a few more months, I am so sure the Mac version, and the Linux version will come out too!
 
You might want to have a look, and give it a try.
 
Skype is really really totally awesome!

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Why IBM Wants To Buy Sun ? (Wall Street Journal Explains) ...

Below is the Wall Street Journal article that makes people talk about IBM intention to buy Sun last week.
Inside it you can find ideas and reason of why IBM wants to buy Sun Microsystems.
 
A short article, with the biggest viral impact in the great history of computing.

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Yahoo Developer Network - Now Live At Ritz-Carlton Jakarta

Yahoo developer network now in session at ritz carlton jakarta. Truly fascinating to see what yahoo would come up with for their 'next step', after their new ceo is appointed. Let's see. :-)
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Sun Microsystems At A Glance

Sun was almost a $250 Billion company in year 2000 when the internet was booming. At that time, Sun was perceived the "dot in the dotcom" and one of the horse of the 4 internet horses.
 
The "network is the computer" company was the main contributor to the ideas of open computing, inventor of java, one of the main sponsor for openoffice, and recently owner of MySQL.
 
The company grow rapidly from it's 1982 root towards its peak in 2000s, then it's market value crash and hovering down throughout the past 8-9 years.
 
Recently it was announced that IBM intend to buy Sun Microsystems. Confirmation of such purchase still need to be waited and still need to be confirmed.
 
We'll see how this fact and episodes would later on resulted into its final form; and how it eventually will be recorded in the annals of world's great computing history.

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IBM + Sun = Cloud Computing Services & Infrastructure ?? (a.k.a E-Business "2.0" ??)

There are rumors spreading today about the acquisition of Sun by IBM. While we don't know the exact conclusion yet, it would be interesting to see what would come out of it?
 
I don't think the biggest impact would be consolidation of server. Such would be less powerful to the current trend of integrated computing.
 
But probably one thing exciting might emerge eventually: IBM has the services capabilities and Sun has the cloud computing infrastructure in its arsenal: MySQL, OpenOffice, Java.
Combined, IBM+Sun might be able to provide the best engine (and later on best services) for cloud computing services and infrastructure.
 
Would this be the case?
 
We shall see as the next episode of this industrial battle and restructuring process happening to its final form.

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Palm Remembered

The Palm V, the magnificent Handspring, the Palm Treo; these were Palm's trendsetting icon of its time.
 
This was how they looked like.
 
What a great product!

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Yikes!

After Sony come out with the 'pocketable' notebook a few weeks ago, now Lenovo comes out with another 'version' of similar idea.
 
If these computer really going to be this tiny (and even thinner eventually), I think one day people are not going to carry nor write on their paper notebook anymore. We are going to type, write, and read on our ultra-thin, ultra-portable computer.
 
Oh that reminds me of my old Sony. I miss my great Sony VGN! It's so tiny, so portable, yet so practical!
 
As a replacement of that Sony, I hope Apple soon would come out with a right-size netbook model -- or even better: a 'perfectly designed & truly workable' tablet by Apple. I hope it would be as thin and as light as my current Macbook Air ... but smaller. It would be so wonderful to carry such super powerful yet super portable computer again. It would be so nice also to be able to type, write and read on such ultra portable computer also.
 
B5 size tablet -- with integrated 3.5G network inside it -- would be perfect : )

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