Kong Hei Fatt Choi! Wish you with an abundance of happiness, good health, laughter, longevity and prosperity.

Bye bye Roaster... Welcome the year of Doggie.

Unexpected travel along way to Mid Valley. Syriana was the movie. What should I describe this Best Ten Movies of 2005? Pulverizing!

All about Google...
Does Google walk away off its motto "don't be evil" complying China's censorship concessions? excruciating decision? Check out more here, here and here. It's smartest? Dumbest?

Google Video had a swift change on its website, letting users more easy to find their favourite videos.

Google Tunes will be great enough to outbeat Apple's iTunes?

"We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google," Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. "It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share."

Thoughts?

Dumb sign of surrender, weasel words, platitude.

The acquisitions of flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, webjay etc are not aspired enough to clinch the next social search, another reinvention of search game around social networking?

Why bother seeing the world for real?

Startup funding is still promising and steadily growing in US last year despite a slight fell of amounts of investment. US$22.13bil, or RM83bil!!! Great contrast with RM100mil of CIP. Stagnant, mission miss in quiet, numbed, haplessness..

US: The deal is settle impeccably finally. Jobs won the last smile with $3.5bil in pocket and a seat in Disney board.

Germany: Diete Zetsche's back on DaimlerChrysler AC intimates the strong determination to sooth the business revamp by cutting 6,000 jobs, saving up to $1.8bil.

Japan: Young zealous entrepreneur "Horiemon", Takafumi Horie was dismissed from the post of president and representative director, of Livedoor finally over the prosecution of fraud.. hoped by internal group which stabilise the management.

Business-obsessed?

Google news is out of beta, after four and a half year.

Jobs, a maverick guy who always in trademarked jeans-clad, has his gradual move, diversifying and enduring his iMac, iPod, iTunes, Pixar animation studio and finally the room of Disney board. Read out more here..

Thaksin family is going to sell off its 49.6% shares in Shin Corp to Temasek, for $US1.8bil. Reasons behind: 1) peak of price, 2) Thaksin wants to halt conflicts of interest linked to Shin Corp, 3) telecom industry faces impending liberalization and deregulation under WTO's terms; so free-trade agreement with US will accelerate the liberalization in telecom industry.

Which brand had the most impact on our lives in 2005? Most probably the verdict can be figured out when I go for "googling", owning my most wanted iPod nano and talking to my friend via Skype. Internet-savvy whizzes, sounds cool?

Search your name here... If you successfully do so, you are among the 90mil people on the list.

China is still the mainland for Microsoft's R&D center, with its $100mil pour per year for the next 3 years.

TD-SCDMA is the next big thing in China's telecommunication? Abandon of commercial standards like CDMA2000, WCDMA, or make less use of them, a wise choice to accommodate China's 1.3bil populations? Yes I think so. Our sons of dragon cannot make full potential of this brand new 3G standards?

De rigueur! A great crash between computing and consumer-electronics twisting hotter this year.

Yahoo! thirsts for real magnets of talent - Ricardo Baeza-Yates, a leading Chilean computer scientist; Andrew Tomkins, a British-bornscientist who previously headed IBM's ambitious Web Fountain search effort; Andrei Broder, a former AltaVista executive; and Ron Brackman, former head of the Information Processing Technology Office at DARPA, the Department of Defence research agency. Meantime, Google is aggresive too desperating for talents, hiring Louis Monier, who created the AltaVista search engine, and Vint Cerf, whose work on communications protocols earned him the nickname "father of the internet", and Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent speech recognition expert whose departure from Microsoft led to a legal fight between the two companies.

CEO William D. Perez proved "Just do it!" over differences with founder and chairman Phil Knight, assessored by Mark Parker.

Nikkei feels the vibrancy of US share market biggest loss, and the lingering prosecution on Livedoor.

Moving into the age of broadband internet connection, supermarket giant slices the phone market cake too by offering free phone calls on the net, based on its huge network of stores and millions of customer.

100Mbps throughput speeds, 4-times compared to current wireless networks - WiFi standard of 802.11n is back to track to cater next great wireless demands for smooth video streaming, conferencings, music playloop and all forms of multimedia content enrichment.

Check this out. Government, US or China, has the right to use Internet search results of millions of its citizens, for the sake of trolling for possible criminal activity, or children exploitation from online pornography? No way. And Google has paid its price for the refusal.

Although digital music sales rose to $1.1bil last year, trippling compared to yesteryear, but determination to shut down illegal file-sharers is never dampen.

What's the possible spark between Steve Jobs and Paul Otellini?

Will Oracle's $19bil acquisition of PeopleSoft, Siebel, JDEdwards, a year ago, be worth for its comprehensive "Project Fusion" to big-bite the whole market of business applications, and outpace arch-rival SAP?

Malaysia's one of four countries which will be visited by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz during his Asian tour, on 29 Jan.

More cutting-edge computer animated films are ready for fascinations after this deal.

Any other better workarounds other than closing plants, cutting jobs, selling assets etc in order to revamp the billion-dollar losses's business? Perhaps size does matter; smaller is more controllable? Or if M&A will work? Watch out the US's arlines' (US Airways, America West, United Airlines, Continental) outcome very soon. MAS might be in good position reviewing the lesson. MAS to a smaller rival AirAsia? Proton-Perodua?

China C2C market is absolutely cannot be underestimated - 12bil yuan. I'm under impression that Alibaba's too greedy to do diversification. While revamping Yahoo! China to fight with Google China and Baidu, as well as its own most strength's e-B2B, never undervalue the presence of eBay's yichu in possibly outbeat taobao anytime.

MISC is poised to swoop again.

National carrier is in the scuttlebutt which in talk of acquistion possible stake in Canadian's Teekay, one of world's prominent carrier listed in NYSE, of liquefied natural gas (LNG), floating, production storage and offloading (FPSO) and energy.

Acquisition is favourably welcomed. Taking out one of MISC's competitor is top of the list, and as so this will sprout more business. The acquisition substantially increase fleet of LNG vessels, which in turns cut cost of shipbuilding. This is timely as it's predicted most shipyards are full for next couple years, and moreover the cost of steel will increase tremendously.

Teekay's respected name in good management and vessel maintenance has turned it into big name in energy transportation. So, if the acquisition is successful, this will greatly strengthen MSC's forte in energy transportation.