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Social Networking is one of the most popular means of communication these days. With an internet access available everywhere, social networking really has become an ecstasy for almost every people in the world. Not only teens or adults, even seniors and children have been addicted by the preoccupation of this social networking. Spending many hours a day to find another new friends, invite them, talk and share something whatever they like.

Social networking site is not something bad. In fact, some social network sites offer many helpful features in way to build communication with new friends or long lost old friends. For instance, the popular one Facebook that connects us with our old friends in High School or in University. Or LinkedIn that allows you to build communication for business purposes.

Besides that, you will also find a social network site that connects you with other people who have the same interest, passion, or stuffs with you. It is Acobay, a new social network site that allows people to build their friendship networks based on their area of interest. Read more…

The name of this Indonesian Nouveau riche is Aksa Mahmud, 65 years old. He was first stated in business in 1968 as young professional at the Kalla group. Ten years later, he became a director at PT Bumi Karsa, a Kalla group subsidiary. Even though he was considered in the peak of this professional career, he was dissatisfied with running other people’s companies and decided to get out on his own.

The technology graduate from Hasanuddin University in Indonesia founded his first company, CV Moneter, and began his journey to joint the ranks of the country’s top business players, establishing in eastern Indonesia. This nouveau riche retained on principle from his ethnic Bugis roots; never surrender. One of Bugis philosophy said;” It’s better to have a broken sail before your arrival than to have a broken ship’s bow before your departure”.

CV Moneter was an agent for Nissan cars in South Sulawesi. Later, he founded Bosowa Berlian Motor, a company he founded when he was appointed as a dealer for Mitsubishi Motor for Sulawesi. At the time, it was also an agent for Mercedes Benz and also dealt in used car trading. Taxis were the next venture, though his business units, control more than 600 taxis, followed his logistic business, and today there is a fleet of 12 ships, 500 trucks, hundred of buses and a warehouse with capacity of 15.000 tons.

In financial services, he founded Bosowa Multi Finance, Periskop Insurance and Bosowa Investama. At the moments Bosowa it self acts as a holding company with 30 subsidiaries. It employs more than 6000 employees. Read more…

What are differences ?

Traditional Entrepreneurs
• more motivation to the many concepts and ideas, many opportunities and exploitation of the wealth accumulation
• Ownership in the shares of the maximum benefit
• Style managerial professionals and would accept the risk
• Leadership with higher authorities
• Innovation is not the main priority, but rely on the franchise and licensing
• Outsourcing important, however, saying it difficult to get experts
• Potential growth using protection, monopoly, oligopoly, so that the global growth slow
• Target more to the national market and takes a long time Read more…

A beautiful retirement day is every man’s dream, everyone hopes to be able to enjoy the day such as having recreation or traveling, having good medical service, and no more debt but extra fund to fill the needs and or to overcome any possible financial problem.

In many cases, senior citizens have vulnerable and sick physical condition that requires them to undergo some periodic medical treatments and monthly medical check-ups. Of course, it needs a lot of fund, especially for those who do not have sufficient savings or adequate pension. The only one that they have is “a home sweet home” that has been settled with their families for many years.

Selling the house for extra fund is absolutely bad decision, and applying general home mortgage also should be avoided that risk you loosing the house as you can’t repay the monthly mortgage payment. There is a good loan solution especially for senior homeowner, 62 years or over, you may ask Read more…

The tool is plugged at the end of keyboard connected to PC. It is used to store all have been given by the keyboard (Keylogger). Most of these are used in internet cafes, exhibition, hotel and airport. So be careful especially using the Internet in places such as access to online bank accounts or other important site.

After you log in to your bank account, and once completed, leaving the PC. It will be easy to open your account back according what you type before. So, you should check whether PC first, if there is something suspicious thing in the back before using the Internet in public places to access important sites.

Just certain people know how Internet Underground works. What is their vision and idealism, basically they have noble idealism but often done in a wrong way. Idealism they are sharing information and for they believe information and knowledge should not be kept confidential, so they exert every effort to open the secret of all the information. Hacker has several levels and groups.
1. Hacker
Hacker is people who provide useful contribution to networking and operating system, create programs to help networking and computer development. Hacker’s work is conducted to find a weakness of a system and provide ideas or opinions to fix.
2. Cracker
While the crackers are people looking for weaknesses and entering the system for personal and seek profits from the system to go on such data theft, deletion, and many others.
Hierarchy / Tier Hacker:
Hacker also appeared to have levels, each level of distinction in the ability and knowledge of the hacker: Read more…

A supercomputer from the United States military, roadrunner, built with the original components, designed for video game machines, and able to perform the calculation of data from more 1.026×1015 calculations per second. Roadrunner this price range USD 133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons. Machines computer is twice faster than the previous fastest supercomputer, IBM BlueGene / L, which is in the laboratory LLN (Lawrence Livermore National), California.

Super Computer roadrunner will referenced New Mexico City was built by engineers and scientists from IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Super Computer used to solve military problems to ensure the supply of nuclear weapons will work with the national good. Roadrunner is able to simulate how nuclear weapons work in a small explosion. In addition to the military to solve problems, roadrunner can also be used to identify the problems of climate change. With high-speed, roadrunner can help scientists to test global climate accurately. Read more…