Imagine for a moment that you are a large Chinese PC manufacturer.  You wish to launch your branded PCs internationally.  Should you (a) price your PCs at a premium to the market (b) price your PCs at a similar level to HP & Acer (c) go for low prices.  Sell more.  Get your brand recognition…

In Hong Kong, listening to the radio really isn’t an awfully attractive option.  So I’m all in favour of podcasts (though I wish someone would devise a better name for them).  Obviously there’s the Ricky Gervais podcasts.  Mainly rubbish, of course, but some of it very funny.  The first series has just finished, though I’ve…

Vince from HKMacs has a short piece in today’s SCMP about common problems people have when switching from Windows to the Mac.  I’m currently going through this learning curve myself, and so all advice is welcome.  Shaky has more on the same theme. So far I’m liking the way that the active application has its…

A few months ago I looked at HP’s Media Centre PC and was completely underwhelmed by the quality of the TV picture.  Admittedly this was in Fortress, but even allowing for that it didn’t seem at all promising. Now Windows XP Media Edition has been officially launched in Hong Kong, and there are a wider…

I remember that when Lotus Notes was released, it seemed that no-one knew quite what to do with it.  Everyone agreed that it was clever stuff, but maybe too clever for its own good, and what is was actually for, anyway? Many years later, plenty of companies have found uses for it, but it must…

I notice that E@L has acquired a bargain price Philips Plasma TV, whilst Shaky has already replaced his with something new and shiny from Pioneer.  I still remember the first time I saw a plasma TV on sale in Hong Kong, and I think the price was HK$100k (US$12,800).  Now they start at around one-tenth…

It’s November, so it must be time for my annual anti-Symantec rant. I needed to renew my subscription for Norton Internet Security, so (after finding my way through their badly-designed website) I discovered that for a few dollars more I could upgrade to Norton Internet Security 2006.  Well, why not?  It seemed like a bargain.…

Yesterday’s SCMP had a brief review of the latest Apple iMac G5.  Given that it has a 20" screen and can burn DVDs, I was assuming that it would also function as a PVR, but clearly it doesn’t.  This seems rather puzzling, though I suppose the obvious answer is that you can download stuff (illegally)…

Thinking of buying an iPod Nano? How about one with 200gb of storage? Details here. Battery life not very good, apparently.

How can it be so difficult to setup a website that people can use?  In fact, why would you bother to setup a website that was people can’t use?    Now, to be fair, I think PPS is a great idea.  Pay your bills by phone any time, day or night, whichever bank you use. …