January 2009
26 posts
Downcast Tet in Vietnam →
Domestic demand over Tet is normally four times higher than the rest of the year as Vietnamese traditionally flock to markets…But not this year.
“A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device...”
– United States Patent: 7479949 (—basically Apple was just granted a patent to the iPhone UI)
The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign... →
PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on an “Obameter”. They rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once they find action is completed, they rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.
One of many reasons why I'm glad to be in Vietnam →
Two-thirds of Americans without broadband don’t want it
Six Words You Should Drop from Your Resume →
Never, ever include these terms in your resume:
Responsible for
Experienced
Excellent written communication skills
Team player
Detail oriented
Successful
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark... →
What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
Vietnam: Imports down, exports also down →
Vietnam estimated on Thursday its trade gap in January sank to just $300 million, a fraction of the $2.41 billion deficit the country had in the same month last year as the value of key imports plunged.
Bird Flu Risk Rises Ahead of Lunar New Year Next... →
Human bird-flu infections may rise in Asia as people handle more poultry for next week’s Lunar New Year celebrations, according to a United Nations veterinarian who tracks the virus in birds. Health authorities in China, South Korea and Vietnam have stepped up surveillance of H5N1 avian influenza among poultry ahead of the festival, which starts Jan. 26.
AMD to develop 1000 GPU supercomputer to stream 3D... →
The company claims that one purpose of the system is to ‘deliver video games, PC applications and other graphically-intensive applications through the Internet “cloud” to virtually any type of mobile device with a web browser.’
Open source mandate: Vietnam agencies to switch →
100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software by June 30, 2009.
Google exposing semantic data in search results →
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill Clinton’s wife? What’s the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears’ mother’s name? The answers to these and other factual questions...
Vietnamese media sackings shock →
Heads of Thanh Nhien and Tuoi Tre replaced.
Who Saw The Housing Bubble Coming? →
“They are the flaw in our economy,” said Nguyen Quang A, president of the...”
– Vietnam’s Stimulus Stirs Criticism as State Conglomerates Ask for Handouts - WSJ.com
Vietnam Growth Slows to 6.2%; Building, Tourism... →
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Vietnam’s economy expanded at the slowest pace since 1999 as higher interest rates and lending restrictions earlier this year damped construction and a global recession hurt tourism.
Gross domestic product in the Southeast Asian nation grew 6.2 percent this year, according to the General Statistics Office in Hanoi, slowing from 8.5 percent in 2007. The expansion fell...