iPhone 3G

Apple has announced the release of their second generation iPhone. The launch date for the new iPhone 3G is planned for 11th July 2008. Apple will be launching the new phone world wide in stages.

Apple has also slashed the price of the new iPhone. USD199 for the 8GB model and USD299 for the 16GB model. This will surely boost Apple’s market share in the coming months.

iPhone 3G does come with a few goodies under it’s hood. GPS, full 3G support, App Store, support for Microsoft’s exchange server, support for more languages and many other enhancements including a scientific calculator.

I think the iPhone is pretty awesome and dropping the price to this extend is naturally going to flood the market with these little machines, i just hope it makes a appearance in this region.

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Oil Producing Nations

So we hear so much from our government that our prices despite the increase to RM2.70 a litter is still amongst the lowest in the region, yes of countries that do not produce oil.

Now lets compared that too the oil producing nations.

Clearly from the chart above the respective oil producing countries are more interested in the welfare of the citizens and not some  expanding bank account that boast their increase in business from year to year. Its a shame that we are given this kind of treatment and are supposed to “change our live style’s” .

I hope that a certain quarter of the politicians will fight this cause for the people :S

If changes are to be made its gotta be from up to down NOT DOWN TO UP!

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RM2.70

The internet is filled with articles that have indicated how un-happy they are with the recent fuel price increase and who could blame them? That means since Abdullah Badawi became an elected Prime Minister in 2004, petrol has gone up by 97.1%, while diesel increased by a whopping 231%

What puzzles me more is the fact that why are the people given a notice period of about 7-8hours to fill up or take the neccesary measures to have their wallets ripped into bits?? I live in the Old klang road area and had to go to klang last night, left home at 730pm and reached Klang at close to 10pm.

Every petrol station was packed with cars spilling out to the roads!! Apparently many petrol stations ran out of fuel and people were angry! Can you blame them?? Its become a bit of a habit of the current government to spring surprises to the people nowadays ha! From the announcement of the elections and now this blow!

I for one am very dissapointed, what are the solutions?

The normal “advice” we’ll hear

1. Change lifestyle
2. Spend wisely
3. The petrol is still cheaper than other countries(are we comparing with oil producing nations?)
4. The government could not be further burden by the subsidy (if a govt doesn’t like burden,maybe we need one which can handle one)

And after all this advice mumbo jumbo this is how our govt spends money

Look at how they spent

1. RM 100 million on renovation of Parliament building and leaks thereafter;
2. National Astronaut Programme - RM 40 million;
3. National Service Training Programme - yearly an estimate of RM 500 million;
4. Eye on Malaysia -RM 30 million and another RM5.7 million of free ticket
5. RM 4.6 billion, ’soft-loan’ to PKFZ
6. RM 2.4 million of indelible ink

Sick to the stomach and apparently this is just the beginning of the process of fully removing the subsidy which we probably be paying about RM4 per litre..

The changes in detail follow

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Vista Home For Everyone

MICROSOFT MALAYSIA is cutting the prices for its Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions, effective immediately.

While the software giant does not set a standard retail price for its products, users can expect to see reductions of 10% to 50%, depending on how they acquire the operating system.

Software piracy has been a major problem in this part of the world and this simple act of cutting price could potentially have lots more people choosing the original software over the pirated versions or known as the “Malaysian version” . Hopefully they extend this price cut to the whole suite of Microsoft products.

This would eventually cripple the pirated versions in the market and eventually set a original software mindset which then everyone can afford.

SP 1 is now available Here or you can call  1-800-88-6295 and get a DVD sent to you. Only if you have the original software installed of course

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