Korea Opens Software Centre in Silicon Valley

January 18, 2011

No doubt, that despite the global economic slump, Silicon Valley still attracts the world’s most brilliant technology minds and their innovative start-ups. And this time, it’s time for Korea’s software industry to make the move.

Because unlike their hardware counterparts like Samsung, LG, Hyundai or Daewoo, Korean software companies have not achieved any kind of global recognition for their products and services.

But today’s opening of the Korea Software Promotion Centre in San Jose, Calif., by the Korean Trade and Investment Agency (KOTRA) might challenge the status quo.

In establishing this new centre – the second after Tokyo – the Korean government intends to promote and assist the most promising Korean software companies, through value added services including localisation, marketing, business development, participation in industry conferences and tradeshows, etc.

For the Korea Software Promotion Centre grand opening KOTRA chose what it considered the ten hottest Korean B2B software companies, from software tools to database products, from transportation payment systems to mobile GUI embedded solutions and tools, to DRM security and control or USIM Smart Card solutions. And Korea’s most promising software companies are:

  • DigitalAria: creates 2D & 3D graphic user interface-FXUI™ for embedded devices including Mobile Phone, Car AVN UI, CE and etc. .
  • ESTsoft: provides PC utilities, ALTools; BizHard, a web storage solution for SMB; Internet Disk, a web storage solution; and CABAL online, a MMORPG.
  • Fasoo: the largest independent DRM vendor and holds most DRM developers in Asia.
  • Infinitt: provides affordable, state-of-the-art medical imaging and information capabilities for Radiology, Cardiology, Orthopedics and Dental healthcare facilities.
  • Insprit: developed a “convergence” platform to manage & control various convergence-devices inside the home network as well as outside
  • JIRAN Soft: develops security software like SpamSniper (anti-spam), CoolMessenger (Secure Business IM) and OfficeHARD (Secure Online Storage Solution)
  • LG CNS: it’s team of 7,000 IT professionals provides IT services including SI (System Integration) & NI (Network Integration), outsourcing, etc
  • Solacia: the first to commercialise the Dual-USIM card technology that will be used in all WCDMA, HSDPA and WIMAX Devices.
  • Somansa: it’s Mail-i solution solution monitors, archives, and retrieves in/out going messages and data from corporate e-mail, personal web mail, FTP, Telnet, IM, Twitter, Web bulletin, P2P, Tunnel, Proxy, Terminal, and bypassing traffic via Port 80
  • and Ware Valley: develops 3rd party solutions for database security, database vulnerability assessment and database management & monitoring

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Google Chrome Laptop: On The Web In Less Than 50 seconds! (video)

December 16, 2010

It took less than 50 seconds, from the time I hit the on/off button on Google’s CR-48 laptop to the display of the first Web page. And probably, the longest time was me entering my super secret unhackable password :-)

Very impressive. Faster than Windows 7 and perhaps even MacOS X, on a good day!

Too bad that the external ports (USB, Ethernet, VGA) on the Chrome notebook are not working – it’s still a prototype – as of today. Also, there’s no optical drive (who needs one now with the Web anyway!) and no keyboard backlighting. Otherwise, it’ll look like a black MacBook!

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Dell Chief Marketing Officer: “The Customer Is At the Core of Everything We Do” (video)

December 16, 2010

Karen Quintos, Dell’s new Chief Marketing Officer at a recent Small Business event we attended, at the company’s headquarter in Austin, TX.

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Setting up your Google TV… in 49 Steps! (Video)

December 16, 2010

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Dell’s 3-Pronged SMB Strategy: Virtualisation, Cloud, Mobility

December 9, 2010

Michael Dell explains the emphasis of his company for the small business market

Talking at Dell’s SMB Global Media Summit today (follow #DellTYOP on Twitter), Michael Dell touts itself as being the typical example of how technology can help a small business grow and be successful. Below is an edited transcription of his comments.

Michael Dell: The small and medium business space is one that I particularly identify with because we started out as a small company. But actually when you think about it, every company started out as a small company. There are no companies that just all the sudden were large companies.

The other real exciting thing for us is the incredible role that technology plays in enabling new businesses to be created, new businesses to be form. We actually see that all over the world. Which is why we take time to recognize the role that entrepreneurs and “heroes” play in creating these businesses.

It’s an incredible engine of creation. We’re seeing strengthening the economy and it really starts with small and medium businesses. We see that in our business.

When you think what’s going in the world today, we need these new jobs and we need entrepreneurs. And actually the entrepreneurs of this era are able to grow and expand much faster than when I was a young man. If you look at the growth rates in the various lists of the fastest growing new businesses, you actually see growth rates that many many times greater than in the age when Dell was a start-up. And it’s absolutely enabled by technology and cloud and virtualisation, etc..

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PR Laggards: Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Intel, Oracle, Salesforce.com, VMware…

December 3, 2010

Part of PRSA's Media Predicts 2011 journalists panel (left to right): moderator Jon Fortt (CNBC), Ben Parr (Mashable), Bianca Bosker (The Huffington Post), Daniel Lyons (Newsweek), Chris O'Brien (The Mercury News) and

These companies were conspicuous by their absence at Silicon Valley’s biggest tech PR event of the year, PRSA’s Media Predicts 2011.

Attending however, were event sponsors Cisco, Microsoft, SAP and Yahoo, as well as local companies eBay/PayPal, Nvidia, Sandisk, Nvidia, SonicWall or Symantec, to name a few. And even French company Viadeo (a LinkedIn competitor) was there!

On the PR front, most of the agencies were in attendance (AccessPR being the more vocal!), except most notably Outcast, the PR agency of Facebook and Salesforce.com, both of which also shunned the top media event.

Surprisingly, or not you might say, I couldn’t spot any reporters/bloggers at the event, aside from the media colleagues on stage: Eric Savitz (Forbes, formerly at Barron’s), Ben Parr (Mashable), Chris O’Brien (The Mercury News), Daniel Lyons (Newsweek), Rachael King (Bloomberg Businessweek), Quentin Hardy (Forbes), Bianca Bosker (The Huffington Post) and moderator Jon Fortt (CNBC).

Not sure how to make of that (and you?), as there were still quite a few seats empty at the otherwise packed gala event. More on the media predictions on a latter post.

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PayPal President: No Plans To Go IPO (Video)

October 26, 2010

PayPal president Scott Thompson is happy to be part of eBay!

At the PayPal X conference in San Francisco, PayPal president Scott Thompson confirmed once more that the San Jose, Calif.-based company has no plans to go IPO anytime soon. “We’re happy to be part of eBay, and I don’t believe that it’s likely to change anytime soon!”

More on eBay-PayPal synergies:

“We have nothing on that front to announce. And in fact, as we’ve said in other occasions, nobody that I know of inside of eBay or PayPal is working in any such strategy… There’s a long long runway of synergies left for these 2 businesses [eBay and PayPal] to enjoy together,” says Thompson.

“The one that Bob Swan [eBay CFO] commented on on our earnings call last week was the growth of our credit business, the BML [Bill Me Later] business inside of PayPal and using the strength of the eBay balance sheet in order to fund that growth in receivables and that is a powerful synergy for both businesses: putting the capital they generate to work to help us grow that part of our business and a very profitable part of our business.”

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[FailCon] How New York Times Gadget Guy Almost Lost His Job Using Microsoft Office Mac 2011! (Video)

October 26, 2010

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Internal bug list... yet to be fixed!

It’s a true story that just happened last week to New York Times tech columnist David Pogue!

Using Pogue’s own description, Office Mac 2011 is “buggy”, “un-stable”, “problematic”, and “missing features.” Something he experienced first hand when Outlook for Mac failed several times to send his review of the Microsoft software to his editor’s work email account (the one set by default) and got him almost sacked!

So before upgrading to Microsoft’s latest office suite for Mac, make sure to watch the video below first

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[FailCon] David Pogue: RIM BlackBerry Storm, A Piece O’ Crap (Video)

October 26, 2010

Why RIM failed the Blackberry Storm

During his keynote on consumer products failures, New York Times columnist David Pogue shared his personal RIM nightmare story with the audience here at FailCon.

For Pogue, RIM decided to ship the incomplete Blackberry Storm in the Fall of 2008 because it was under pressure to deliver it to Verizon for the start of the holiday season.

“It [Blackberry Storm] was horrible. It was a piece of crap. It was so filled with bugs, I will be on the phone every day with RIM… It just doesn’t work,” explains Pogue.

But what made this a complete disaster for RIM is it continuously denied that the Blackberry Storm had any problems, despite tons of consumer complaints on the Web and a devastating email Pogue received from one of the Storm team member:

“When you wrote that this product was released prematurely, you were absolutely right, and everybody here knew it… Internally, many of us argued that we would be hurting ourselves by rushing it out the door. Obviously, our managers disagreed,” reads the email.

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Logitech Unveils $300 Google TV Box (Video)

October 6, 2010

Logitech CEO unveils the Revue, the world's first Google TV set top box

At a press conference this morning Logitech CEO unveiled the world’s first Google TV set-top box.

The Revue is available today for “pre-order” online at Logitech.com, BestBuy.com, Amazon.com and, in 2 to the 3 weeks on retail shelves.

With this set-top box, the almost 30-year old company targets the 60 million HD TV households in the US.

“Google TV is the first platform that integrates the Web, broadcast TV and applications seamlessly,” said Logitech CEO Gerry Quindlen.

But at $300, the Logitech Revue is going to be a hard sell. So far, no manufacturers, including Apple, succeeded in selling a set-top box at this pricepoint.

So good luck with that!

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