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Dell expand retail operation in Indonesia

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After making inroad in Singapore and Malaysia’s retail channel , Dell recently continue it’s retail expansion in Indonesia via PT Metrodata. From their press release, Metrodata known to has long relation with Dell since 2002 when they become Dell’s Authorize Service Provider and commercial product partner

Metrodata, a public listed company on Indonesia’s stock exchange,  is one of the leading information technology company in Indonesia. It has worked and ally with multinational companies such as Oracle, IBM and Dell and has strong reputation in Indonesia.

Through METRODATA’s retail network and partners in the 5 major cities of Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, and Medan, Dell will begin offering XPS M1330 and the Inspiron 1420 laptops; and the Inspiron 530 and 530s (slim-build) desktops.

Indonesia with 200 millions residents is definitely a very huge market for Dell. But with it’s unique geographical condition, where the country is separated by thousands of islands, selling direct through online store is insufficient to cater the needs of mass citizen.

Since making an announcement to expand it’s retail presence in Asia last year, Dell has aggressively building up and finding retail partner in a new but high growth market such Indonesia . Where’s next? Philippines and Thailand are another major market in South East Asean, where Dell has no presence in retail. Dell could expand in this countries very soon. Stay tune for more news and update

zaki 24 February 2008 Dell 7 Comments

No AMD in Dell.com

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Dell no longer sells AMD based system through their website, Dell.com. To be more accurate, this is for consumer segment only. As Dell currently moves its consumer sales through retail and partership, AMD based system will only be available through that. However, Dell will continue to support AMD products.
 
What is the impact?
A quick check on Dell.com.my, there is no more AMD based system available, neither Notebook nor desktop even though it is reported that Inspiron 531 is still available online. In other countries where Dell retail presence is quite significant, the availability of AMD based system to mass consumer market is still better. But the situation is different in Malaysia where Dell has a small number of direct stores or retail partners, where most of them are only available in big cities.  This means that now it is almost impossible for Malaysians who stay out of Klang Valley to buy Dell AMD based system online.

While I believe less Malaysians prefer to buy Dell or shop online too, this is definitely a good news for their rivals such as HP, Acer and Lenovo who has stores or retail partners all over Malaysia such as Courts, NCS, PCDepot, small computer shops and even hypermarkets such Tesco and Carefour. These computer vendors has long became AMD’s partner and selling wide range of AMD’s based processor systems.

For AMD, Dell represents a small chunk of its sales only and this action won’t directly impact its earning.

For you who wants to get Dell’s based AMD system in peninsular Malaysia, the only place you can get it is at Midvalley Megamall Shopping Centre and Lowyat Plaza, while there is 1 store in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah which belongs to TecAsia. You might get the 2nd hand systems from Lowyat.net or Lelong.com.my.

 
 

zaki 10 February 2008 Corp, Dell 8 Comments

Super Bowl XLII tech companies commercials

American Football is not a big game in this region, we’re more to football or soccer as what American calls our football. Just giving a quick fact of what the Superbowl is, it is NFL’s championship game, a match between the champions of the two league’s conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). It’s kinda long story of how this league is formed, but this is not like English Premier League, where EPL have multiple tier divisions according to the performances, but this is 2 different leagues (I can say it is on the same level) whereby the champions compete against each other in Superbowl.

I have known about Superbowl before, but I’ve heard more about it lately, the excitement and fun of this game from my teammates who are based in the US. They’re trying to get me in their conversation even though I know nothing about it. While the game itself is full of excitement, the second most exciting part is the Superbowl advertisement which is aired during the television broadcast. Last year ad costs USD2.2 million for 30 sec ads due to the number of viewers with almost 90 millions. This ads however are available on US and Canada television broadcastings only, but luckily, with Youtube around, most of the ads are available there.

For full advertisement list, direct your browser to NFL official websites. Enjoy!!

Apple Macbook Air

Dell (PRODUCT) RED


Dell XPS

T-Mobile

GoDaddy.com

Verizon Voyager

Sprint



Toyota Sequoia SUV

zaki 6 February 2008 Corp 6 Comments

Google missed earning target, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo

For the last few hours, there are 2 interesting development of top 3 internet search engines company

Google miss earning forecast
Even though Google continue to be in black (profit) and its profit continue to rise to 1.21 billion from 1.03 billion on the same period a year before, but the fact that it miss the forecasted earning set by market analyst is kinda worrying the investor. OK on the simplest word, investors expect more but Google provides less. What does it mean? This is how I understand. Google’s revenue comes mostly from advertising, and big chunks of it came from the US.

At the moment, US economy is not that stable after the subprime crisis that happened from last year. Financial institution such as Citibank and JP Morgan has loss billion of dollar in their mortgage loan. Due to this also, consumers becomes more careful in spending their penny.

What is the connection between this and Google’s earning? With economic slowdown, the spending on advertising will slightly affected . So the rest is like a Domino effect, the slowdown on the other end will affect the other end along the road and so on

The most significant effect to us is the weakening of US dollar which causing you Adsence earning in USD converted to local currency lesser than usual.

Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo for 44.6 billion
Another not really shocking news, after MS announced their batter than expected profit last quarter, and the gloomy outlook of Yahoo. Ok, this is not rumors anymore. Microsoft has attempted to buy Yahoo before but it was rejected. But now, Microsoft is trying it luck again. Ironically, MS tabled the offer after Terry Semel, Yahoo chairman who’d rejects their offer earlier step down.

What is the problem with Yahoo? Why Yahoo has never recovered from their downfall? Well, the problem is within themselves. Yahoo has the most traffic in the world, but they have problem converting them into earning. Its project such Panama Project is not successful. Same fate goes to YPM which is still in beta stage after a year. Sigh

MS smell the opportunity and definitely trying to take an advantage of Yahoo current situation with hopes to catch up Google who lead the online business market. And with piles of cash it has, buying Yahoo is just another investment to grow bigger

What do you think of the whole story. Can Microsoft buy Yahoo and overtake Google???

zaki 2 February 2008 Yahoo, google, microsoft 7 Comments

Microsoft second quarter profit rise to $4.7 billion

Microsoft is making the front page news again. Not with super thin notebook, fancy MP3 player, gaming console, corporate take over, porn or political issue. Microsoft just doesn’t care about all these things. Not even with their patchy Windows, bugs, their over price operating system or even their under performing MS Live. They let the $$ talk on behalf of them.

Microsoft (or known as MS) announced that they made a net profit of USD4.7 bil for their second quarter (1 quarter = 3 months). It is translated to RM15.5 bil from revenue of USD16.37 bil (RM 54 Bil). Enough to cover Malaysian Budget partially.

USD4.7 bil is a lot. By looking at how much Vista was sold, it is easily understood on how MS earning is climbing and perhaps can push MS profit even higher in the next quarter. Price below shows how much Vista is priced in a single license, but the price would be different on OEM bundled together with PC or bulk licenses.

The company said it has sold 100 million copies of Vista since its January 2007 launch.

Microsoft Recommended Retail Price Table*:
Windows Vista Business RM550
Windows Vista Home Premium RM440
Windows Vista Home Basic RM330


Other important points in Microsoft revenue

  • The business division, which includes Office, brought in $4.81 billion in sales.
  • Xbox 360 game console and the Zune brought in $3.06 billion. The division make a profit of $357 million from a loss of $302 million last year.
  • Online services business (Live and advertising) rose up to 30%, but widen the loss to $245 million, from $118 million a year ago.

By looking at this figure (and table below as well), Microsoft’s main contributor came from its office suite, operating system (workstation and server), server and other software licensing. The only place where Microsoft is losing its ground is on its Online business. We know who’re the KING on online right… While Microsoft has found its arch rival in online business, Microsoft is still the undisputed champion in offline business. And even though Apple’s Leopard who also gained its market share last quarter, it’s still a long way to go before Leopard can treat MS Vista seriously. The simplest situation that I can see is how Windows is widely used by government sector and big corp due to its easiness and broad support provided by them (even though sometimes it’s not that good).


So while MS profit keeps on increasing which shows their sales in their product such as office suite and home computing growth are tremendous, it also got me to question if open source application such OS in uBuntu, office suite in Lotus Notes and Star Office does really impact MS revenue and profit. If we let the numbers speak, the answer is definitely NO. There is a lot of buzz about Ubuntu, and some computer manufacturers such as Dell and HP who had even started shipping system with this OS,  but the fact that most users are still relying on MS to do their daily task especially in office is showing how MS has deeper influence than most of us had thought. Using Ubuntu for experiment is not really parallel on goal in a way the open source community would want.


The recent subprime issue which is overshadowing the US economy also, seems like does have any impact on MS revenue due to the nature of its business which is located around the world. If you’re to venture into any business, you’re highly advised to practice what MS did.


  • Build (or copy but make it better) product that everybody use, regardless of the geographical or economical situation
  • Kill your competitors (give it away, allow piracy (on initial stage only))
  • Show image that MS product is better supported (compared to open source)


Just some further info if you’re interested to know how much MS operating profit for the same period system of his fiscal year ad last fiscal year


Microsoft operating income brake down and comparison table. (see detail )


                                                                   3 Months Ended     Months Ended
                                                                           Dec 31                Dec 31
                                                                     2007        2006        2007     2006

Client $3,358 $1,838

$6,727 $4,485

Server and Tools 1,172 981

2,132 1,751

Online Services Business (245) (118)

(510) (236)

Microsoft Business Division 3,185 2,152

5,879 4,391

Entertainment and Devices Division 357 (302)

524 (423)

Corporate-Level Activity (1,346) (1,079)

(2,353) (2,022)

  Total operating income

$6,481 $3,472

$12,399 $7,946


source : Yahoo News, CNNMoney Microsoft

zaki 25 January 2008 microsoft 11 Comments
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