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China vs US – Is Win/Win possible?

scui — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:55:57 +0000

Recently, US has increased its pressure on China to stop “manipulating” the value of the Chinese Yuan (RMB). The logic is simple: RMB is undervalued, it caused trade deficits and in turn caused the loss of US jobs. Therefore, in order to create US jobs, trade deficits with China has to be reduced and RMB [...]

What is iPad?

scui — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:19:10 +0000

What is iPad? To be honest, I am not sure what it is. When Apple released its first iPod in 2001, I thought it is just a Portable Music Player. How can it competes with low-cost players? Obviously, many of us are wrong. iPod changed the whole industry. So did the iPhone.

Now the expectation is [...]

Retirement Planning

scui — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:43:47 +0000

Since the release of myPlan application, many people have asked about the user guide. In fact, myPlan is not a complicated software to use. It may not have fancy and most user-friendly interface. But it certainly achieves one goal – making retirement planning easier and simpler to understand. Instead writing a user guide, I decided [...]

myPlan 1.1.4 Released

scui — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:22:19 +0000

myPlan is a Personal Financial Management software for Mac OS X. It is freeware can be download here. Please leave comments or contact me at myplan@voyagebc.com for any bugs or feature request.

Google Exit China?

scui — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:44:20 +0000

Google threatened exit china. What a joke! I am not surprized that many people see them as heros against evil empire. I hope google will stand on whateve it says – not a business decision. What an “exit” really means in Internet age? People in China will not be able to use gmail? When I [...]

Learning Cocoa

scui — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:05:48 +0000

I was a Mac programmer in 90′s – Pascal, 4G, C++, Newton. I guess there is not many people know what is Newton. It was Apple’s first PDA released in 1998. Although it is not a success story back then, many technologies developed for Newton are stilling being used in Apple’s latest product line – [...]

myPlan – A Little History

scui — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:15:42 +0000

I have been tracking my spending since I was in colleage. It is not necessary budgeting as I do not set limit/target for each category. But it did give myself some kind of discipline. At least I know where the money goes and where do I stand financially.

Anyway, I started on a piece of paper. When I [...]

Windows 7 Upgrade

scui — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:22:06 +0000

I am glad that the latest Apple ad pointed out exactly Windsows 7 (or Microsoft’s) problem. Windsows 7 is actually a ”fix” to Vista. Why people have to pay over $200 to upgrade at first place.

When I bought my new laptop several years ago for work purpose. I paid the manufacturer to downgrade the Vista to XP. [...]

Is China ready for SAP?

scui — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:05:41 +0000

Everytime I am going back China, I always try to answer a question – is China ready for SAP? The China Computerworld story may not state all the facts about SAP China. But I am convinced that China is not ready for SAP.

Maybe we should phase the question differently. Is SAP ready for China? SAP [...]

Project Profile – SAP GATP RBA

scui — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:47 +0000

In consumer electronic industry, companies are constantly operating in constrain-supply situation. In many case, the constrain-supply is necessary in order to achieve profitability.

A Japanese LCD-TV manufacturer maintains a main distribution center in California and 3 other distribution centers in middle-west and east. The majority of the inventory is kept in California to avoid unnecessary transportation. [...]