Steve Jobs' resignation

When I got up last morning, anticipating a great birthday ahead, I was surprise by seeing Steve Jobs' resignation in most technology websites.

Steve Jobs has been one of my biggest influence aside from the founders of Google. From his speech alone, I became a believer. I never wished of owning tons of Apple product, but his innovativeness is noteworthy.

Since my business partner and I are big fans of Steve Jobs, we usually talk about him. I predicted that he will step down soon because of issues regarding his health. At his age of 56, he is still young and I am sure he can contribute more to Apple Inc. His resignation will affect Apple a lot because with Google's purchase of Motorola, Android technology will be supercharged. The IOS technology will have a tough battle with Android.

Apple's innovativeness is directly linked to Steve Jobs. I am hoping that he was able to train another innovator inside Apple as a successor of his innovativeness.

In anyway, my respect goes to one of the most innovative mind in this world. One of my biggest role model in the Tech/Business world. Thanks for making a dent in the Universe. Cheers to you!

Here is the article about Steve Job's resignation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14659127

Happy birthday!

My birthday just ended and like any other of my birthdays, it was great. Though, fewer people greeted me. Mainly because I removed my birthday on my Facebook account. Funny but I find it better. :)

I just spent my day with other faculty members in our school then had a simple dinner with my brother and grand mother. Nothing grand, nothing spectacular. I was never conditioned to really celebrate birthdays.

Anyway, Happy birthday to me.

Google

Technology has always been my interest from the work of Steve Jobs during his early years to the launch of Windows by Bill Gates. From the come back of Steve Jobs to Apple to the Innovation of Dot Com companies.

Of all these inspirational stories, there is one company which got my attention. It is Google. Google started with just a search engine and a vision to organize everything in the cyber space. Currently, they are offering a lot of free services for use to use. The likes of blogger, youtube, gmail, googlewave (unfortunately, this project was discontinued), google maps, google docs and many other services. What got my attention is their financial model. They earn purely from getting advertisements from their search engine.

Being inspired by Steve Job's idea of making a dent in the universe, Google seem to be doing this perfectly. I am not sure if this is part of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's idea, but the services they are offering are of great help to Internet users. How were they able to do this?

First of all, the search function of Google is way powerful than MSN/Bing or Yahoo. This give users a better result from what they are looking for. Also, there are minimal ads unlike other websites that are so irritating.

Next, when offered Gmail to users. Yahoo mail was forced to increase their capacity because initially, Yahoo mail has a small storage space compared to Gmail. To combat this, Yahoo mail made their storage unlimited just so that users will not switch. I almost did switch but currently, my Yahoo mail is still my primary email.

Another good service that they made, was the introduction of Google maps. No need to further explain this because they offered a concise map of the planet Earth which we can access real time to go to our desired location.

Google also ventured into operating systems however, they focused on mobile phones. Microsoft, being the top software company who sells operating system, didn't saw the opportunity of the smart phone market. Currently, Google's Android OS has the highest market share in terms of smart phone OS which also competed with Apple's iPhone IOS. Steve Job currently is not happy with the fast growth of the Android.

Google also competed head-on with Microsoft's Office applications by introducing Google Docs where users can create spreadsheet, presentations, and documents on line even when they do not have any Office applications installed in your computer.

Lastly, Google is now competing with Facebook. It is known that Mark initially wanted to battle Google by offering email address to Facebook users. Currently, Google is competing with Facebook with Google+. They did made a lot of attempts to compete with Facebook, but all of their attempts were failures. As of the moment, Google+ seems to be getting a good review by users of this Beta release.

These efforts of Google gives us a lot of benefits and most service they offer are free. To top that, they have the best working environment most people would die to be in.

Here are some videos of Google's work place. Isn't this the bomb?

On Living - Pregnancy

Happy moments for us because 2 of my closest friends are pregnant. We go way back since our elementary days. Been with each other as we grew old and now this is another chapter in our life that needs celebrating.

Funny because I was the first in our group who wanted to get married, but now, I seem to be quite enjoying my single hood. the dynamics of our group will once again change because when they give birth, things will be a lot different.

Congratulations to my friends and I am excited to see cute babies whenever we celebrate moments together.

Internet service provider

The primary use of Internet for me is to communicate with people, by social network sites, emails, or instant messengers. These are common things I do whenever I go on-line. Next would be to research stuff either an idea or simple random thoughts. And lastly, I use the Internet to download multimedia files.

For the past weeks, I encountered a number of problems with my current provider. Aside from the constant slow speed we get at home, there are certain sites that I cannot seem to visit. These are downloading sites where I get my materials. Because of this, I am now looking for a new provider who can give us a more stable connection and gives me access again to those sites that are block in my current provider.

The main problem here is that most providers here oversells and under delivers. Still being positive in our quest for the holy grail of Internet service providers.