Newspress: http://www.gsmworld.com/newsroom/press-releases/2009/2548.htm

Mobile World Congress: http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

GSMA Association Blog: http://www.gsma.org/

Cnet GSMA Info: http://reviews.cnet.com/gsma-world-congress/

HTC Diamond 2

HTC Diamond 2 Overview: http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchdiamond2/overview.html

When you first see and start exploring the HTC Touch Diamond2, you’ll be struck by its brilliant looks and amazed by the intuitive controls.

A More Intimate Conversation In today’s world, a conversation can take many forms, from voice to text … but there’s always a person on the other end. The HTC Touch Diamond2 arranges your conversations by people, not just by how you speak with them. When looking at your contacts, you now can see a history of your conversation in whatever form it took place. It doesn’t matter if you get asked about a recent email while you are talking on the phone, or if you’re in a café reminiscing about a friend’s recent text – all your interactions are neatly laid out for viewing and follow-up in a tree of communication with that person.

Broaden Your Vision One indisputable fact about smartphones … a big screen on a small phone is good. That’s why we’ve stretched the display on the Touch Diamond2 to its very limits, while still keeping the same compact size. Enjoy videos, websites, photos and any other images on the ultra sharp wide screen display. The high resolution screen will reveal every minute detail in the most vivid way.

Beautiful Yet Capable These days, a phone is one of the few items that never leaves our side. It not only helps us keep connected with friends, business partners and world events, it also helps complement who we are. The Touch Diamond2 is your perfect companion in both the way it helps you keep in the loop and the way it accentuates your sense of style.

HTC Touch Pro 2

Engadget Info: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/16/htc-touch-pro2-is-awesome-in-ways-the-touch-pro-never-could-be/

HTC Touch Pro 2 Overview: http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchpro2/overview.html

Business success depends on human interaction. You can often get more done with a quick phone call or a face to face meeting than you can in strings of emails. So why do all business phones seem to ignore the importance of calls? The Touch Pro2 treats your calls with as much care and attention as your messages.

Speak Out When It Matters Sometimes your opinion needs to be read, but sometimes it demands to be heard. The Touch Pro2 is equipped with a spacious keyboard that makes it breeze to get your message out. But when written word is not enough, it only takes one touch to respond to an email with the urgency of a phone call. Get all the key stakeholders involved. If they were in on the email, then simply tap next to their image icon to get them in on the call. The HTC Touch Pro2 helps make it easy to share your ideas with all the people that matter.

Straight Talk™ – Speakerphone Innovation Nothing ruins a conference call faster than not being able to hear what is said, or make yourself heard. The HTC Touch Pro2, featuring Straight Talk™ technology, puts crystal-clear sound quality and voice reception at the core of its design. In fact, it is a palm-size professional conference phone with a loudspeaker and dedicated noise-cancelling microphone that delivers superior quality conference calls.

Conference Calls … Made Easy Before today, the simple task of multi-party calling required the nimblest of maneuvering around your phone menus. Now, HTC Touch Pro2 introduces a new worry-free interface that makes multi-party calling as easy as tapping on your contacts. That’s not all, even if you are traveling and need to join a conference bridge back in the home office … the Touch Pro2 will ensure that you connect without delay. Appointment reminders will conveniently cue up the phone number and PIN, ready for you to press … you won’t miss out on the latest strategy changes back in the HQ.

Samsung Omnia HD / Ultra Touch

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Hotel Information:
URL: http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SFOSMGI
Address: 2000 Bridgepointe Circle, San Mateo, California 94404
Phone: 650-522-9000

The hotel is located minutes from San Franisco Airport and across the 92 freeway bridge from Oakland Airport. Less than 30 minutes from San Jose Airport. So going to this location is fairly easy. It is right at the boarder of Foster City and San Mateo. Being situated by the bay, weather there is actually very pleasant with occasion cool breeze during the hot summer days. The surrounding area, within walking distance (approx 1 block), you have the Bridgepointe Plaza where you could pick up a host of items you need. You have Target, being a major convenience store in the area, not to mention a other popular eating location such as BJ’s Brewery. If you are in need of some Asian food, close by you have the 99 Ranch Supermarket, a Chinese popular supermarket chain. Less than a mile away you have fairly decent Chinese seafood restaurant.

As for the hotel itself, as of 2008, it was in the renovation process. The room was standard hotel size room and fairly comfortable. The king size bed I had was extremely comfortable with a bed style similar to “Select A Comfort” where you can dial the firmness of your mattress. The fitness room was a bit cramp with too many equipments in a small area. Internet service is complimentary, which is an added bonus.

Overall, the Hilton Garden Inn is a good place to stay because of the location and services it offer.

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But what does that mean for SAP, she asked me. Upon researching it, I came across an article (http://www.sapinsideronline.com/searchspi/search.htm?page=article&key=38942&query_text=RFID) talking about it at a high level. It occurred to me, this is an awesome technology.

Look at it this way, the old method of barcode scanning require you to see the barcode and see the actual product you are scanning. Taking it to another level, if this were to be used by UPS, FED EX, or even the airline industry where they tag your item with a barcode. But if they can’t see the barcode, they can’t see your product.

Using a radio frequency tagging method, they can track your item w/o having to see it or know where it is. No more lost items or baggage! But that also mean another thing, think of 1984 where they know exactly where you are at. Similar to Martha Stewart and her ankle bracelet in recent events. In either case, if used correctly like everything else, this would be a very interesting technology. Only time will tell….

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If you go to an average restaurant with average services, the normal tipping rate people go by these days would be 10% – 15%. If you go to a really nice restaurant, you might end up tipping upward to 18% – 20%. This is for a service someone gives you during your time at the restaurant, usually an hour or two. Some places charges an average standard gratuity rate of 18% for party of 6 or greater. For a personal meal, you would usually pay $25.00, which mean you could be paying $2.50 in tip if you are going by the 10% rule. For a meal that averages $150.00, you are looking at averages of $15.00 worth of tip for those who go by 10% rule. Often time, we go by the 15% – 18% rule.

However, for other services we use such as car wash, hotel room cleaning, etc., we tend to UNDER tip. It bogs my mind as how much we sometime under tip these people. I’ve came across people who believe tipping $2.00 – $4.00 per night stay at a hotel is excessive, while their hotel rate is in the upward of $125 – 150 per night. To some people, they tip $1.00 or other times not tipping at all. With their $1.00 tip, they expect the red carpet treatment cleaning service for a place where they will be there for a whole 24 hours.

Another example of an under tipping service is at the carwash. You’ll spend anywhere between $20.00 – $30.00 to have your carwash, detailed, vacuum, and sometime wax. People would usually tip around $1.00 – $2.00. In a restaurant environment, where a person serve you drinks, take your order, and smile to you in an air condition environment, they would’ve received around $2.00 – $5.00. However, a person who cleans your vehicle in the summer sun, they receive much less.

Sometime it makes me wonder what kind of standard do we set ourselves and the people who serves us. Overall, we tend to go out of our way and tip for entertainments and tip frugally when it comes to other things.

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