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JAL filed for bankruptcy, and it was told that now the whole value of JAL as a business is less than the price of one of its airplane!

While indeed it surprises me that JAL could goes havoc like this. It is still unbelieveable to me that the whole value of JAL is not more than the price of 1 new boeing airplane.

In modern time, perception of the market -- I guess -- many times really no longer reflecting true reality. It very often getting totally distorted. And many times, later on, proven to be silly.

Apple was considered a 'dead company' a 15 years ago. The market perceive it as a RIP. Not really. In the hand of Steve Jobs, it make its greatest come back. Today valuation of Apple is even bigger than IBM.

JAL was the largest airline in Asia. It has so many airplanes, asset, building in so many shape and form. And of course debts -- short term, long term, expenses, expenditure and operating capital. Yet the market suddenly perceive its total valuation  less than 1 of its boeing airplane?

I inherently don't think so. Or -- at least -- I tend to NOT believe so!

I could be wrong though. :-P

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A few days after Apple announced their iPad, Google released some mockups of Google Chrome OS Table.
Here's how it looks like.

               

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No it's not something that is being sent by an UFO. It's the first twitter message sent by Astronaut @Astro_TJ, as TJ Creamer is known on Twitter.

New software aboard the International Space State has made it possible for people to tweet live from space, and Astronaut Timothy Creamer wasted no time in sending the first digital message. He posted the first live update while in orbit, saying: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space!

The implication of this could be major:

1. For the first time, we -- citizens of planet earth -- might start having constant feed of what our astronaut's see and experience interesting, in outerspace!
2. In the near future the technology will also give astronauts the ability to use the web and connect with loved ones from space in a much more real-time fashion.
3. Even cooler -- as 'space travel' become mass and increasingly more affordable/popular in the future (see the 'space travel' iniative by pioneers such as Sir Richard Branson, and by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder -- http://arvino.posterous.com/virgin-oceanic-another-cool-innovation-from-s) -- it is not impossible that "soon" our kids and grand-children might start receiving post-card and short-video messages from mommy, daddy and granny that happen to be 'on holiday trip' ... to outerspace!
   

   

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... MySQL is an Oracle company!

On the bottom right hand corner you can see the Oracle logo, and the copyright info: © 2010, Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. It's a very interesting and very exciting development indeed.

Meanwhile, if you go to sun.com website, as the Oracle-Sun deal is completed, you will find this: "Software. Hardware. Complete". -- Oracle finalizes Sun deal.

Seems there's no more sun.com website anymore, as everything is being directed to Oracle website.

Looking at these, perhaps we can glimpse where the next exciting trend and evolution of web computing would be: Hardware software together once more ?? MySQL and Oracle together as "Oracle product" company ?? Probably.

These would be truly groundbreaking development that is beyond any "normal" convention!

Indeed, information technology is truly a very exciting, very innovative -- and at the same time: a very "surprising" -- business. The combination of things that might be possible is truly endless!! :-)

   

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Imagine if 3 to 5 years later iPad could be this thin. Portability would extend to a new level.

Now imagine when such 'thin slab' eventually also being equipped with "wireless 4G" connectivity (the kind of speed and mobile connectivity that we heard already happen in country such as South Korea), plus when it comes with ample of disk spaces too! Such would really make content become truly portable, and fully accessible anytime anywhere -- in a snap.

Looking at this, I guess the recent "iPad innovation" is just a start of what's possible. There seems to be even more 'next exciting stuff' that could happen, pretty "soon" -- sometime in the future.

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While exploration of space that Virgin initiate through their Virgin Galactic initiative is interesting, in parallel seems Sir Richard Branson also start entering another new and exciting segment: exploration of the deep water!

Nicknamed 'Virgin Oceanic', it aim to give people chance to "experience the beauty of the deep water in ways that can never be experienced before". So, if private and personal outerspace exploration seems still too expensive for many, this perhaps could be the next great alternative that even more people can explore!

Seriously cool!

                     

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Someone at Cydia really did this. I think this is truly cool! Now, we can experience the 'look and feel' of the iPad ... while 'waiting' for the real thing to arrive in the next 2 or 3 months. :-)

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At first impression, surprisingly it seems not as magnificently beautiful as I thought it would really really be. :-) (Somehow I feel the frame around the screen is still a bit too wide -- perhaps I have seen too many thin mockups already -- hence the expectation skyrocketing a bit too high). :-) But at closer look, definitely it seems to be something that worth to consider, as the OS, and the software inside it is definitely better than other -- except in comparison to Palm latest OS, I guess. :-)

Perhaps I will consider to use (or choose) this Apple Tablet (a.k.a the iPad) as my portable e-book reader and portable presentation tablet. Something to carry around daily -- in companion to my MacBook Air (which is better at typing serious long text and at building presentation slides), iMac (which is better at displaying things bigger on bigger screen), MacBook white (which is useful for coding and Windows testing purposes) -- and of course, in companion to my first Apple PowerBook G4 (which is still a great computer to feel and to look at, even until today -- G4's screen, mouse precision and keyboard tactile feel is still the best until today).

I really hope the iPad battery last really long. If it can perform similar to the battery lifetime of the Kindle (e.g. can be used 2 weeks without charging), then it would be really really awesome.

Anyway, pretty nice start into the future. I guess Apple is seriously really (almost) make it great once more!

If the price is right -- means in between the price of iPhone and MacBook -- I am sure Steve Jobs is really going to create another great "latest creation" legacy for Apple and for the rest of the world. We'll hear what the exact price would be, later on. If it really is in between iPod and MacBook (or even lower -- a.k.a similar to the Kindle -- which I guess seems pretty likely), then it would be really really be truly awesome!

Steve Jobs is really is truly magnificent. He know what he's doing. And usually he really know too what the exact "right price" for his latest greatest innovative most beautiful creation should be!

Let's wait and see. :-)

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