In 1997, Steve Jobs announced the partnership with Microsoft.
Among the collaboration is the use of Internet Explorer as the default browser on the Mac, Java VMs, Microsoft Office and also $150 million investment from Microsoft.
Looking back, what was important about the whole deal, really is how Steve Jobs kicked-start the ‘Think Different’ campaign.
Much of Apple’s [...]
April 30, 2006 – 11:01 am
With China having a long holiday this coming week, Daphne decided to take a trip up North for a break.
This seems like a good time for me as well.
Looking at the pipeline, things will be really busy June onwards.
Alexis will be tagging along on our trip to Cameron Highlands. She will probably enjoys the cool [...]
Last week, I received a call from some ‘broker’ (sounds like a Caucasian) who is based in Tokyo.
This so called VC firm, who claimed that they are different from other VC and work with high net worth private investors make a couple of mistakes that I take it to heart seriously.
For a company that has offices in Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur, the caller who is based in Asia, failed to address my name in the right way.
Firstly, Chinese names are often of [...]
April 21, 2006 – 12:15 pm
This is just a quick follow up thought after I read an article in the New York Post on the negotiation between music labels and Apple.
While talks are still in progress between the firms, what took me to comment on it is a quote from an executive in the music industry.
One high-level music industry executive, [...]
April 18, 2006 – 12:19 am
For some reasons, Apache2 on my windows seems to be getting sluggish. A huge part of it is due to the number of services running on my machine.
I took the opportunity to make a switch from Apache to Lighttpd .
Kevin Worthington has compiled a windows build that allow one to easily install it on [...]