Archive for July, 2007
VC Blogs
Thursday, July 26th, 2007VC is a really hot topic here in China, its called 风险资本 or 风险投资 in Chinese. Unfortunately few people really understands what VCs do and how VCs earn their money, and it is confirmed by a Venture Capitalist another day I saw on TV.
So if you are interested in A VC is a blog you definitely wanna read. I read it quite often (almost daily if I have time). The author is a partner in a VC firm called Union Square Ventures. I realized they only have a few employees in the firm(by checking out their firm, or do the due diligence as people in finance would say), look how amazingly they provided funds to so many later successful companies.
Another VC guy who writes in Chinese is called Isaac Mao, however he does not write as often as Fred. Mao said people could contact him via Skype, I tried to introduce myself, did not get a respond, anyone can connect me to him?
Last but not least is Bo Shao. He also uses Wordpress for his blog:). He went to Harvard MBA for Christ sakes.
A interesting comparison between Germany and China
Friday, July 20th, 2007I find it interesting, especially these two pictures
I think the comparison can generally apply to the differences between the West and China.
The full design can be downloaded here
IPhone, Part III
Friday, July 6th, 2007A colleague in California said the report I got from Merill Lynch is a cheap-not-so-good-one, they have much better ones, but you need to pay for it before you can read them:(.
I prefer the cheap ones:D. Here is a pretty good one:
Digital Board Side 1
Digital Board Side 2
RF Board Side 1
RF Board Side 2
Description: Smartphone running OS X with several innovations in the user interface. Several movement sensors and touchscreen. Only 2.5G support.
Highlights: - Movement sensors, single button operation, multi-touch LCD
- Answering machine
- Sold with flat-rate (@ AT&T)
Lowlights: - Expensive $500 (4GB), $600 (8GB)
- No support for: 3G, Flash card, GPS module, Flash browser applications
- No Java, no programmer API, no copy/paste function Approx Market Entry: Q2/2007 Retail Price: US $500 Platform: Infineon, NXP
Feature Overview
Display
TFT, 16M colours, 320×480px, 73×50mm
Touch Screen: Yes
Telecom Technologies
GSM; Bands: 800/850, 900, 1800, 1900
GPRS; Class
EDGE; Class
Battery
Type: Li-ion, 1200 mAh
Vendor’s Quoted: Standby: 250 hrs
Talk: 8 hrs
Memories
User Memory: 4000 MB
FW/SW Memory Size: 101 MB
Card Slot: No Multimedia
Polyphonic Ringtones: Yes; ? voices
‘Real’ Ringtone: Yes;
MP3
Camera: Yes
Resolution: 1.92 MP
Autofocus: No
Flash: No
Secondary Camera: No
Video Capture Capability: No
Video Playback: Yes;
MPEG-4, H.264
Audio Playback: Yes;
MP3, AAC, aacPlus, WAV
Mobile TV: No
FM Radio: No
Stereo Speakers: Yes Connectivity
IrDA: No
Bluetooth: Yes; 2.0
WLAN: Yes
TV-out: No
USB: Yes; Full Speed
Other
OS: Unix-like
Java: Yes; ?
Web Browsing: Yes; XHTML
Video Call: No
SMS: Yes Predictive text: Yes GPS: No
MMS: Yes Handsfree: Yes PTT: No
Email: Yes SyncML: ?
Below is the package information:
IPhone, Part II
Friday, July 6th, 2007
IPhone, Part I
Friday, July 6th, 2007
IPhone unleashed
Friday, July 6th, 2007I am going to write a post about the inner IC’s of IPhone from Apple. I got some interesting reports about the IC’s in side the IPhone. Since the Company I am working for provides 2 of them (Digital micro-controler IC and Power Management Unit). I am a bit proud of it, especially the PMU is done by a group inside the Innovation center I am currently in. So hopefully this weekend you will see which IC’s are in the IPhone, and which are IC’s from the company I am working for. :D.
A few jobs available in my company
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Let me know any position you’re interested in.
Past posts migrated
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Last weekend I spent some time migrated posts in the past year from blogger.com and windows live space to here. For my dear subscribers (now I have 3:)), please visit http://alanhtang.com again and subscribe using the RSS icon on the right of the page, then you will see all the past posts also. Happy blogging.
Bonus Picture: My friend Fun
