Google adsense get new favicon

adsense favicon Google adsense get new favicon

Google Adsense get new favicon. Looks better than the old one. Would this indicate that google will change it’s favicon on google.com?

Do you want favicon for your wordpress blog, without doing any modification to you code at all? Get this plugin here.

For newbie, what is favicon

update: 31-May-2008

Apparently, the favicon update is not only for google adsense, when I attempt to add new RSS feed to my google reader this morning, it shows new favicon as well. But the Google reader homepage still using it current favicon

feed favicon Google adsense get new favicon

Google is 2008′s most powerful brand


Google has topped Millward Brown’s Most Power Brands ranking for the second year in a row. The internet giant has a brand value of
$86.1bn (£43.2bn), according to the annual BrandZ Top 100 ranking

2008 top brand Google is 2008s most powerful brand


Among technology giants on the top 100 list are including

  • Microsoft    3rd
  • IBM    6th
  • Apple    7th
  • Nokia    9th
  • HP    16th
  • Intel    27
  • Oracle    26th
  • SAP    29th
  • Dell    41th
  • Blackberry    41th
  • Yahoo    62th
  • eBay    65th
  • Motorola     92th


No Malaysia brand on the list however. And no oil and gas company listed on the the Top 100 too

China Mobile is the most powerful brand in Asia, ranked 5th follow by Toyota and  ICBC which ranked 12th and 18th respectively.

Other than overall list, there are also list categorized base on region and industries. Full list available here (in pdf format)


I thought Google don’t like Pay Per Post..

Looks like Google still love Pay Per Post after last year ‘grand slam’. At least on their $$$$..

google PPP I thought Google dont like Pay Per Post..

Dell expand retail operation in Indonesia

metrodata Dell expand retail operation in Indonesia

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

No AMD in Dell.com

AMD No AMD in Dell.com
 

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.