The Star reported that Dell opened its first physical retail shop or store in MidValley Megamall. The move is said to be part of Dell’s strategy to gain its dominance as the world’s number 1 PC retailer. Last year, Hewlett Packard (HP) eclipsed Dell to become the number one computer maker.
By the way, the store is one of the over 10,000 shops opened by Dell worldwide, and looking at the numbers, looks like they are serious into getting back on the top of the leadership ladder. This store is a partnership between Dell and TecAsia, the retail arm of FTEC Resources Berhad, which also sell their flagship, FTEC PC and laptop products.
I think the move is just about right. All this while, customers who want to get their hands on Dell’s products have to look through the catalog and order online, directly from them. The fact that their products are not available through resellers make it difficult for people to buy. The good thing about selling the products directly is that, you can maintain high quality for each product. The bad news is, the supply and distribution chain, from the customers’ point of view, sucks.
MIMOS has launched the allegedly ‘the slimmest PC in the world’ in PWTC yesterday. The event was officiated by the Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
MIMOS, which is an acronym for Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems is government owned entity that focuses on carrying out technological research and nurture development of home-grown technology. Unlike the normal PC, this slim Makcik PC works base on touch screen panel. The main objective of the development is to produce user-friendly PCs as well introducing PCs affordable by all levels of people and generation.
Makcik PC is priced between about RM500 to RM1100. As reported, the PC will not be only made available for local market, but is intended for export market too. But at the moment, it is still unsure when the first Makcik PC is available in the retail market.
Source: Utusan Malaysia
It seems that certain people are wasting their annual budget by giving away stashes of cash to students graduating with top honours. Recently the Negeri Sembilan government decided to give away RM25,000 for those graduates who scored first class honours in their degrees.
Off course, that is a generous rewards but in my own opinion, those people don’t reserve rewards in the form of too much cash. It will be good for the state government to help those students paying off their study loans/or convert the study loans to scholarship. They can also help those graduates by placing them in government agencies or in the private sector without having to spend too much time writing applications so that the graduates can better prepare for the real world that requires much much more than academic credentials.
This advice comes from someone who spend many years in the recruitment involving fresh graduates and often found himself disappointed with the quality of the first class graduates. Often, those average achievers with active involvement in extra curricular activities get the job and impress the employers instead of those first class degree holders.
They should remember that first class honors is just a scroll and it does not guarantee them success in the working world and life in general. There’s more to it than achieving top academic degrees.
They will eventually realize that giving away money to them will bring more disadvantages rather than advantages. Unless, those people use the money to run his/her business rather than entering the job market hoping for a high salary at par with the academic achievements. That obviously will not happen for as long as the quality of the education is still questionable.
Let’s not put the citizens money to waste. I hope they will realize their mistake soon.
