I usually use Yahoo! Finance during trading hours to track stocks, and yesterday I noticed a new feature on its site: real-time quotes. I read in SCMP that it's served by BATS Trading, and it's all about getting the most hits. According to the article, Yahoo lost to Google last month for the first time as the most visited websites by Americans, 140.6 million vs. 141 million. Ouch. But what a way to get visitors flocking back to Yahoo.
kingsley: May 2008 Archives
It's official, iPhone will come to Hong Kong via Hutchison Telecom. I used its 3 Hong Kong network before, when it was the first company to offer 3G. Back then (2003-2004) 3G was expensive, and rarely anyone used it. After my contract ended, I switched back to 2G from another company.
But even my current contract has long expired, and I just sold my unlocked iPhone, all in anticipation for the arrival of the 3G iPhone. Now I can switch back to 3 HK without hassle or penalty, and buy an authorized iPhone when it comes to Hong Kong. With the HK$3,000 I got from my old iPhone, I might not have to add a lot of money to buy a 3G iPhone with contract.
[Update, 02 June 2008] Just noticed in my iCal that I renewed a one-year contract with PCCW set to expire November, 2008. If I remember the terms correctly, I only have to pay the remaining months of the contract should I decide to cancel early, which is at most 5 months at less than HK$100 a month. Not a problem.
Finally got around to upgrading to Movable Type 4.1. It's a lot easier to upgrade than to do a new install. Just start up your FTP client, grab all the MT 4.1 files from your desktop and drag them onto your "mt" folder on your server. Let the files overwrite themselves; they'll know your settings and keep your permissions. Then wait until they're done, then you're done.
I'm doing the unthinkable: I'm going to sell my iPhone. I've read one too many news and rumors that the 3G iPhone will be announced and available on June 9th at the WWDC. Usually I try not to read too much into the rumors, but when even the Apple Store is long out of iPhones, it pretty much backs up all the speculations.
More importantly, I just checked the 2nd-hand price of my iPhone and it's still worth HK$3,000, which is the same price I sold my other one 2 months ago. I thought the price would have gone lower by now, but the news doesn't seem to have hit Hong Kong yet. So I'm hedging my bets and selling my iPhone now, then wait patiently for two weeks for the new iPhone to arrive. If I'm right, I would only have to pay up a little more to buy a 3G iPhone, as opposed to paying a lot more, because I didn't sell my old iPhone before it became obsolete.
The trade-off is I'll be carrying a bulky phone with a built-in digital TV my brother lent me, and a dusted off 4GB black iPod nano--which still looks handsome--while I wait, patiently...
I haven't done any scientific testing--I leave that to all the other geek-out (in a good way) sites--but it seems my MacBook Air can run for hours, easily matching the 5-hour claim by Apple for "wireless productivity." And that's mainly what I use it for: I leave on my WI-FI at all times, and am surfing the web and writing. I'm sure without an optical drive and barely a port to draw power on have something to do with it, and perhaps my SSD model adds a notch to battery life. Either way, it runs circles around all my previous notebooks, some twice as long, I'm betting.
