one of the projects i am working on is putting together a framework for corporate innovation.

one thing's for sure, this is no easy thing. but unfortunately - or fortunately - it is something of a must do. we as a nation are at a crossroad, and inflection point.

for the past several years, we prided ourselves as being a solid destination for foreign investment in manufacturing. our low cost structure, good infrastructure and investment friendly government policies helped to drive economic growth 1.0.

Technology today is changing at a hectic pace. Keeping up is causing me breathlessness. Damn, I must commit to some workout here.

On occassion I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and not moving anywhere fast. So much work, so little progress. Sounds almost vogonian.

On Tuesday 9 January 2007, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs enthralled the watching world with another of his magic acts at the Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 at San Francisco's Moscone West.

This is not a smoke and screen magic trick - but one which is real. Nevermind the rabbit out of the hat effect. Apple announced to the world its entrant into the highly competitive communication device industry with the iPhone.

Some disturbing news.

Not sure whether this is an April Fools joke or for real.

Not long after Apple announced that it would move towards the Intel platform after years of opposition, Apple once again is dumbfounding the market with yet another "blasphemy" and will now enable Microsoft's Windows to be run on Macs.

Prophets of doom are starting to gather their flock and spouting that the world is about to end, that the sun will rise from the west, and that hell would freeze over.

I am no Mac owner, but am a great fan of Apple's supercool products. But is this for real?

Wired.com reports yes it is for real. The article was dated 6th April. Not 1st April.

I've been an Apple fan since the mid 80s and the days of the Apple II.

To me the Apple II revolutionised the personal computing world and made it possible for the home user to do things that previously only certain corporate specialists would do... and in addition to this, it allowed home users to do creative things, play games etc.

Talking about games, I remember spending hours playing Lode Runner... how nostalgic.

Soon Apple came up with the equally revolutionary Macintosh with its mouse and graphical user interface (GUI). In one fell swoop it made the rival IBM-based PCs look positively old hat. All this was communicated during the Super Bowl with the now legendary Ridley Scott directed advert based on "1984".

 

I was thinking of expanding the music repertoire for my Bimmer. Was thinking of getting myself an iPod and hooking up to the car audio. Apparently this is possible.

Costs GBP119.99 in the UK? Is this available here in Malaysia?

If you'd browse my World News feeds (look for it on the top menu) you'd find some news of my own selection. One interesting news is iPod selling a million videos in 20 days. This is perhaps an important piece of news for the likes of aspiring online media companies. Currently the you can buy & download music videos and TV series like "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" for $1.99 a piece. Not sure how big the one million downloads is in relation to the size of the iPod market.