Added the e-Referer gadget

I have added a new gadget to this blog, namely the e-Referer.

This is how it works: if you've provided a link from your website to my blog here, and somebody clicked on that link to make a visit to here, your website will be listed in my referer listing, which contains a link back to your website.

I have made the setting so that the last 20 referers are listed. So, in order to stay on top of the list, continuous visiting from your website to update the last visit timestamp record is necessary. The number of reference made from your website is also shown beside your link. The total number of references within the last 127 days will be shown below the gadget.

If you find that this gadget is cool and you would like to have one in your website, just click on the e-Referer link provided in the gadget, register for a free account there, and copy over the javascript codes into your website.

Asia Trader & Investor Convention @ KL 2009

Organized by NextVIEW and first launched in 2006, the Asia Trader and Investor Convention (ATIC) has travelled to 7 Asian Cities -- Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Mumbai, Shenzhen and Tokyo.

With participation by over 300 financial services organizations including securities exchanges, retail & consumer banks, securities brokerage firms, asset/fund management firms, listed companies and other financial services providers, ATIC events have already attracted over 75,000 active traders and serious investors across Asia.

The ATIC @ KL 2009 is coming soon.
Date: 14-15 March 2009
Time: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, KLCC, Malaysia

It will feature more than 50 English and Mandarin investment seminars, 30 international and local renowned speakers, 40 exhibitors and 15,000-20,000 targeted investors.

Some of the feature speakers including:

• Daryl Guppy - Founder & Director of Guppytraders.com
• Paul Forchione - Commodity Trading Advisor
• Brent Penfold - Veteran Trader, Licensed Futures Adviser, Educator
• Dale Gillham - Fund Manager, Author, Educator & Founder of Wealth Within, Markets
• Collin Li Xin Jing 李欣京 - Technical Markets Strategist
• Don Schellenberg - Founder, Master Money Traders
• Benny Lee - Chief Market Strategist
• Yusrizan Ome Yaacob - Retail Market Strategist
• Dar Wong - Independent Trainer & Columnist
• Alan Hing - Institutional Trainer
• Alan Voon 温世麟 - CEO, Warrants Capital
• Saeed Shah - Senior Sales Manager
• Azizi Ali - Chartered Financial Consultant
• William Wermine - Fund Manager Rep
• G.M. Teoh - Technical Analyst
  

This event is endorsed/supported by:

• Financial Planning Association of Malaysia (FPAM)
• Institute Bank-Bank Malaysia (IBBM)
• Malaysian Association Of Chartered Financial Consultants (MAChFC)
• Malaysia Futures Brokers Association (MFBA)
• Persatuan Wakil Niaga Saham Malaysia (PERSAMA)
• Persatuan Remisier Bumiputra (PRIBUMI)

It carries a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 15 hours for Registered Financial Planner (RFP) designees. The early bird entry ticket for this 2 days event is free (normal price is RM28.00).

Click here for more information about ATIC at KL 2009.

Laptops shipment has outnumbered desktops in 2008 Q3

The 3rd Quarter (July-September) of 2008 has been a historical break-through moment for worldwide laptops (a.k.a. notebooks) shipment to outnumber desktops for the first time ever.

During that quarter, global laptop PC shipments rose almost 40 percent compared to the same period of 2007 to reach 38.6 million units. Conversely, global desktop PC shipments declined by 1.3 percent for the same period to 38.5 million units.

This shows that more and more people are opting for laptop than desktop when they buy new PC. In my humble opinion, the following contributes positively for such purchasing decision:

• Nowadays, the graphics display of laptop is not losing to desktop monitor.
• The multimedia function of laptop also competitive to desktop. In fact, certain laptop even has built-in webcam camera, microphone, etc.
• The network function of laptop is also superb. Most laptop nowadays has built-in LAN interface, dial-up modem, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, infra red connection, etc. However, most desktop doesn't have all of these built-in as standard package.
• The laptop CPU processing power also in par with desktop CPU, besides being able to work with lower voltage and discipate less heat.
• The laptop harddisk also more robust for mobile usage.
• Most importantly, the gap between selling price of laptop and desktop has greatly narrowed down, although generally laptop is still more expensive than desktop.

What do you think? Will you select a laptop or desktop for your next PC purchase?

Click here to read iSuppli's news report about "Notebook PC Shipments Exceed Desktops for First Time in Q3".