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Traceability The Bitcoin blockchain serves as a decentralized ledger that allows anyone to follow the transaction history of a particular token with the touch of a button. For example, each Bitcoin carries with it a cryptographically provable history that contains a detailed record of ownership and transaction data associated with the token. Simply put, if a particular Bitcoin has been used to process even a single illegal activity in the past, all of its subsequent transactions will be tainted. This, according to Dave Jevans (CEO of CipherTrace), is one of the main reasons why certain cyber-savvy criminals go to such great lengths to launder their cryptocurrencies before putting them to use.  #VirginBitcoin Full artcile: https://cointelegraph.com/news/virgin-bitcoin-most-in-demand-crypto-that-is-regulated-differently

Date: 16th May 2019, 11am-1pm Venue: Blockchain Academy Asia, Cyberjaya Leadership Notes by Dr SOAR 1) Where are we now? 2) Vision - Where we want to go? - What we want to become? 3) Mission - What we want to give - What we want to do Being Doing Having 1. Where are we now 2. Where do we want to go 3. Why go there 4. How do we get there 5. Who is going to do what, where, when, with whom and using what?  - Money  - Manpower (human capital)  - Methodology  - Machinery (hardware)  - Moments (time) 6. How are we doing  - evaluation, assessment - strategic intervention Best use of resources, where the blueprint is Life is a journey of imperfect actions Improvise, start with whatever you have. Mission is why you exist, what are you giving. 1. Initiate 2. Plan (Blueprint) 3. Action (Execution) 4. KPI (Evaluation)   - Back to 2 for Re-strategize where needed 5. Closing Provide That Platform 6Es of Human Capi...

To what extent does your organization have a digital strategy today? Over the coming decade NO industry will escape profound digital disruption ... to the very nature of what it makes and serves. History has a way of repeating itself if you don't learn from it. If the rules make you number one somebody's gonna change the rules. Fundamentals: What do people want? What is the business moment here? If you don't think about the disruptive model to your business model, somebody outside will do it for you, FOC. Website 101 from Koh How Tze People, Process, Technology Trending Data, Historical Data Use data to predict before an accident happen. Algorithm is at work. Prices change at seconds. Not so much agree on above tabular info but just a note for reference purpose only. Notes taken from a speaker during  CIDB SICA 2018 at Berjaya Times Square Hotel Kuala Lumpur Slido Apps - The Ultimate Q&A and Polling Platform for Company Meeti...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. #WealthConcentration You change the system and people get out from poverty.  It is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.  ~ Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle ...

【智能手机正让我们变得愚蠢吗？】研究人员指出，在吃饭时不停微博，会让我们成为浅薄的思考者与无情感的僵尸；不停查看手机会让你远离人群，让你变得消极，并不愿与这个世界互动。开发“智能”技术的初衷是改善人们的生活，但它最终可能会控制我们的生活。 随着互联网的发展，隐私问题变得越来越严重。隐私泄露的问题，智能手机甚至比电脑更严重。 在电脑上，邮件还会输密码；在手机上，为了使用的便利，大部分都是默认的密码，你的手机要是丢了，比电脑丢了还恐怖。 最危险的四种软件： 1）查杀毒软件，纪录你的病毒特征。 2）输入法软件，纪录你的打字习惯。 3）浏览器软件，记录你的网上痕迹。 4）定位软件，纪录你的真实位置。 云服务时代，你的电脑永远有一个你自己关不上的记录上传后门。别人数据挖掘，你将丧失隐私。 How Raytheon software tracks you online - video ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/10/raytheon-software-tracks-online-video A study shows that what you ‘like’ on Facebookcan predict, with remarkable accuracy, everything from your race to your sexual orientation, political affiliation and personality type... http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-likes-may-more-revealing-think-110057414.html

YouTube 新聞未來新霸主？ YouTube正成为全球最有影响力的新闻机构，而它没有聘用任何记者。这个网站的数位环境已产生重大变化，成为个人录影与新闻专业报导并存的世界。皮尤研究中心(Pew Research Center)16日公布的新聞專業新研究發現，發生重大事件及天災時，人們往往搜索「YouTube」，希望看到目擊者送上「YouTube」的現場錄影。 全文: http://cnews.cari.com.my/news.php?id=250996 陳士駿：正確時間做正確的事 1. 很多學生擔心畢業不是就業，就是失業，但卻忘了其實還有「創業」這個選項。 2. 勇往直前並不等於有勇於謀 他說當時PayPal的老闆並不懂財務管理，但卻照樣做網路金流，就像他也不懂怎麼拍片，一樣可以創立YouTube，因此他認為創業成功，關鍵在於「正確的時間做正確的事」，以及勇往直前的「勇氣」。 (注：这个有点像 Tune Talk CEO Jason Lo 当年被 AirAsia CEO Tony 叫去帮忙业务时的情形。 When Tony asked me to join, I said: “Tony, I don't know anything about telecom.” His response, “That's ok. I didn't know anything about airplanes.” Source: http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=business&file=/2011/7/30/business/9187655) 3. 創業失敗不等於世界末日， 年輕人有的正是時間優勢。 4. 如果缺乏熱情沒有創新的想法，心裡只想要賺錢，卻做不出有自我特色的產品，要成功那只能碰運氣。 5. 對於網路創業，現在 只要找到使用者關心的內容 ，創業幾乎是沒有門檻。 想要創業的年輕人不妨從「自己想要，別人也想要，但市場上卻沒有」的行業切入創業市場。 在雲端運算的現代，創業者只要到亞馬遜租一個電腦空間，幾百台的電腦就可以同時啟動，公司設在哪裡都一樣，就算跨國公司利用網路溝通也不花什麼成本， 這是網路創業最容易的時機，缺的只是好的創意和勇氣。

当今社会打造的是一个浮华耀眼的环境，目所能及非财富就是声名。所以人们的追求也不同以往，不是想着一夜暴富就是一夜成名，至于其手段和方法则有待考证了。是我们的时代造就了这样一代又一代如此不务实的人，还是我们的一代又一代人成就着这个如此浮躁的社会？也许这个“时代”和“个人”的问题，就如同现在的“追星现象”一般，究竟谁是谁的看客，还有待一个合理的解释。~ 谢德金 A few info related to Korean entertainment industry and the use of Apps: 成龍籌備韓團進軍韓國 韓流吹襲，港星成龍決定親自籌備偶像團體進軍南韓市場。此新團為男子團體，一共有五名成員 ─ 四名韓國人、一名中國人，團體名稱以成龍自己的名字 (Jackie Chen) 為靈感，將團體取名為 JJ Cece (JJCC)，預計九月出道。 http://kpopn.com/2012/05/18/123423/ First Day of Super Junior’s ‘Super Show 4′ Concert at Tokyo Dome draws in 50,000 fans On May 12th, 50,000 ELF‘s witnessed the first of Super Junior‘s two day ‘Super Show 4‘ performances at the prestigious Tokyo Dome. First Day of Super Junior’s ‘Super Show 4′ Concert at Tokyo Dome draws in 50,000 fans. Super Junior will hold their second performance at the Tokyo Dome tomorrow on May 13th in front of another sold out crowd of 50,000 fans. http://www.allkpop.com/2012/05/first-day-of-super-juniors-super-show-4-concert-at-tokyo-dome-draws-in-50000-fans 韓流泡沫化？ 韓國時報 (K...

An interesting ads found at The Edge Financial Daily newspaper: Old Newsstand New Newsstand Must Go Early Real People Limited Copies, may be sold out No Back Issues Buy other Sundry Goods Early Delivery Multimedia Links Open 24 Hours Archive Library No Sundry Goods. ;P Worth noting is that for digital version, user experience may vary with different tablets. Though there may be some issue here, the march of technology is definitely unstoppable. Another eye catching line about the business model would be statement at the ads bottom: Read it for FREE thanks to BMW and SP Setia Group (Property Developer) What say you? :)

Bottom line: investments in Apple's ecosystem are paying off. In June, 2010 Apple said it paid developers $1 billion for applications. In October, 2011 at the iPhone 4S launch, Apple stated it had sold 250 million iOS devices and that the App Store had seen a total of 18 billion downloads, paying out over $3 billion to developers. In January, 2012, Apple is pushing its cumulative payouts to developers above $4 billion. You can check out detailed milestones and chart showing downloads and available apps on the app store over time, since the App Store was opened in 2008 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS) Simple applications such as Little Buddha, iFart, Popcorn Maker can make your apps virally known worldwide, with huge potential making good passive income, where your investment pay offs. For example, the developer of iFart, Joel Comm, has been pretty forthcoming with sales figures, and on his blog he noted that over Christmas Eve and Christmas day, mo...

This is the follow up info on the case of Kodak , The Case of RIM (Black Berry), IBM and General Electric . The point of these case studies is about the march of technology , and how important it is to be able to adapt with the times. Kodak and The March of Technology For the case of Kodak, although it's sad to see an industry pioneer bite the dust, competition is brutal - better companies have emerged with better products and services at lower prices - it was digital technology that destroyed Kodak's market share . Ironically, it was Kodak that invented the digital camera nearly 40 years ago, yet it could not keep in step. The fear of self-cannibalisation allowed newcomers to come in and eat their lunch, and by the time it realised it had to play the digital game, it was too late to catch up. However, its Japanese competitor, Fujifilm - also an old company - which aggressively rode the digital wave has got a market capitalisation of US$12.6 billion today. So the l...

Identity theft — mainly, fraudulent spending — has affected hundreds of millions of people, causing hundreds of billions in losses worldwide in the past decade. Today, though, your credit card number isn't the only target of hackers' keystrokes... What Do You Do Online? I bank with an online interest-bearing checking account. I use it to make utility, car, cable, and phone payments. It also contains my entire banking and ATM transaction history. I pay my mortgage through a separate online account. I have a brokerage account. I manage my insurance and health savings account (HSA). I have an individual retirement account (IRA). I have a credit card account. And of course, I have an email account, which doesn't forget anything and is a catch-all for correspondence from any person or business I interact with: orders, confirmation numbers, pictures, usernames, etc. The very fabric of my life — and yours, I'm sure — is sewn together with digital thread. It's...

Social networking devices seem to play a significant role in facilitating an easy way for strangers to come together for the purpose of organizing a protest. As so many protests around the world have been transformed into more aggressive outbreaks of violence and rioting, several questions and concerns now revolve around these modern social networking vehicles. Mob Robs During Riots There's a hot new trend in civil unrest, called Mob Robs, when a mob of people swarm into a store and take everything in sight. The store workers become completely overwhelmed and can do nothing to stop it. A typical Mob Rob: These mob robs sound frightening similar to the food riots happening around the world. And the really disturbing part is that they're happening more and more frequently... Teenage 'flash mob' robberies on the rise in the U.S. The Herald June 19, 2011 — The same technologies that for years have brought together the mostly benign and goofy "flash mob...

While still wondering around for a new tech toy, considering among Apple's iPad 2, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2, and HTC Flyer, I sent a mail to a kind friend asking for comment, and to my surprise, he returned with quite a professional point of view and thoughtful suggestions. I would like to dedicate this post to his kind attention and valuable time spent in reply. Besides, it's a solid proof to part of our previous discussion in a dinner that sometimes, you don't really have to crack your head for content. :) This is the content of the email I sent him: ------------------------------------------- Dear Richard, I saw this promotion by Maxis on HTC Flyer package, where they selling 2,499 with 24 months rebate and told the prospects at the end of 2 years the device cost only 159. Yet, I think it is tricky and not worth the money paid, as can get iPad2 at 1899 with data package 70 only, and HTC Flyer seems a bit bulky when compared to Galaxy Tab, even though both on 7...

Training internet experts to fight against hackers and data thieves is a priority for developed countries. Check out two related news: Training Future 'Cyberwarriors' Is School's Objective By Fabian Mueller February 18, 2011 9:35AM Whether it's administration, government bodies or the private economy, there are networks and systems everywhere that need to be protected, data secured and digital intruders stopped in their tracks. It seems appropriate that the cyber security course can also be completed exclusively online. http://business.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0030009MN97F Hackers hunting on smartphones Hackers showed a strong prediction for a kind of malicious code used to mine bank account data and, ultimately, get into people’s accounts, the computer security firm indicated. China, Thailand and Taiwan had the highest rates of infection, with nearly 70% of the computers in those countries “riddled with malware,” according to PanLabs. AFP-...