Investing My Way

The end of cell phone

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:21:48 +0000

With Nokia’s official profit warning today, especially at a time where iPhone 4 oversold on its first day, it is clear that handheld cellphone market had changed completely.

Gone are the days of flip phones like Razor from Motorola and Nokia’s many flip and non flip series that dominating cell phone sales. Consumers, either techie or not are changing their user behavior on cell phone from:

phone call + simple text

to:

Surfing web +email+games+heavy data transmission

No matter how hard Nokia and Motorola tries, they are the dinosaurs. Apple and Google is changing the cell phone business in a way that eventually will make them just hardware suppliers, like a flextronics and Jabil,

Attention- Rebates on Energy-Efficient Appliances

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:19:21 +0000

The State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program (or “Cash for Appliances,” as it is more commonly known) is a $300 million Federal program overseen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It’s designed to help conserve natural resources by encouraging consumers to replace older, inefficient appliances with new, ENERGY STAR qualified models.

What state do you live in? Find what you can get here:

http://www.energysavers.gov/financial/70022.html

If you live in MA, we have a total funding: $6,235,000. Check this out

http://www.masssave.com/residential/lighting-and-appliances/get-the-facts/the-great-appliance-exchange/?utm_source=press&utm_medium=press&utm_campaign=GAX

You need to buy qualified appliances, with qualified retailers, so don’t just go anywhere. Go by the list on the above page. Please be aware that “online purchases do not qualify”.

Good luck!

PageRank worth how much?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:13:55 +0000

PageRank is that although Page and Brin conceived the idea and created

the algorithm that arrives at a PageRank, it didn’t belong to them. Stanford University actually

owned the patent on the PageRank algorithm until Google purchased the exclusive right to use the

algorithm for 1.8 million shares of the company (which were sold in 2005 for $336 million).

conti

Interesting facts: Google’s PageRank is Page and Brin ‘s brain child. They conceived the idea and created

the algorithm that arrives at a PageRank, but it didn’t belong to them. Stanford University

owned the patent on the PageRank algorithm until Google purchased the exclusive right to use the

algorithm for 1.8 million shares of the company, which were sold in 2005 for $336 million.

They sold too early. As of 10.14.2009, it is worth $963 million. Google’s market cap: 170 Billion.

The beginning of the story :The Acres of Diamonds

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:19:31 +0000

Acres of Diamonds

In ancient Persia, a wealthy farmer leaves his home to seek even greater wealth, and spends his life in a fruitless search for a perhaps mythical diamond mine. Finally, as age and years of frustration take their tool, he throws himself into the sea and dies, an unhappy pauper far from home. Meanwhile, back at his estate, the new owner, surveying his vast acreage, sees something in a stream, something bright, glistening in the sunlight. It is a large diamond, and turns out to rest atop the fabulous Gloconda mine.

- Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.