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US to Foster Angel Investor Groups in Indonesia, as Secretary Clinton Remarks

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was pleased to announce that Indonesia is one of the five countries in the world in which the United States will work to foster angel investor groups and connect them with startups and entrepreneurs.

Finalists have found new customers and new investors and, as the minister said, some have already received investments. One has received pledges for a million dollars’ worth of startup capital. And everyone, all 500 of us drew up a plan and took a chance on it, as transcripted by US Department of State.

visited Bali, Indonesia on 21 to 24 July to take part in ASEAN talks and meet foreign ministers from East Asia Summit after travelling to Turkey, Greece and India.

The Secretary of State visit, who was appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, demonstrates the United States’ sustained commitment to enhance their strategic engagement in Southeast Asia and with ASEAN, as stated by State Department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland.

“Talent is universal, but opportunity is not,” she said. “We can begin to change that if we find ways to unleash people’s potential, help good ideas take root and flourish. Potential entrepreneurs are all around us.”

Hillary Clinton, who was appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser that carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.

During her four-day visit, she led US delegation to the 18th ASEAN Regional Forum to discuss regional security issues, and delivered keynote speech at the first-ever ASEAN Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) on July 23. The Summit, which was officially hosted by the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia,would be a Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) in Indonesia’s annual work program to synergize Indonesian and ASEAN prospective entrepreneurs with the US successful entrepreneurs.

The Summit is a follow-on meeting to President Obama’s Summit on Entrepreneurship in April 2010, during which the Secretary launched the State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program. GEP in Indonesia was set up to create Angel investor groups in Indonesia, develop stronger mentoring and networking support systems, and celebrate the successful stories of Indonesian innovators.

The event itself was a continuation of Entrepreneurship Delegations (Edel) program held in Jakarta on 19 – 21 July. Both events were fully attended by about 200 entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and government officials from ASEAN nations, US, India and China including 11 Angel Investors and claimed as successful by Global Entrepreneurship Partnership Initiative chair, Chris Kanter and US Department of State GEP Senior Advisor & Director, Steve R. Koltai, as spoken to Bisnis.com.

Sandiaga Uno, one of the Indonesia’s inspirational young entrepreneurs, and one of the RES speakers, said that this 3 days RES meeting yielded more optimum results rather than 2 years inter-countries’ negotiations.

In the run-up to this summit, 500 Indonesians entered their business plan competition, running the gamut from high-tech innovators to more traditional brick-and-mortar entrepreneurs. One of the prizes went to Indomog, an online payment gateway that offers vouchers for internet gainers. Another went to Gojek, which offers a motorcycle, taxi, and delivery service to Jakartans frustrated by traffic gridlock, which sounds very familiar for someone who comes from New York.

Hillary Clinton, who left Bali on the next day to go to Hongkong and China, requested GEP Indonesia to conduct Edel program annually aimed to connect between Indonesian and US entrepreneurs more intensively, added by Chris Kanter.

 

 

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Goutama Bachtiar’s answer to Which are your favourite Twitter clients and apps?

For Desktop Application: TweetDeck
For iPad: Osfoora and Twittelator
For Android: TweetCaster
For BlackBerry: SocialScope
For Symbian: Gravity

Which are your favourite Twitter clients and apps?

Making iDevices More Special

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Gift Wrapping (Source: Apple)

Available free and exclusively for iPod and iPad bought from Apple Online Store, we can add our personal and customized message in those iDevices with laser engraving.

Other additional service available is signature gift box with a personalized greeting card and red ribbon. It is available for iPod, iPad, selected software and accessories & Mac notebooks. You can also add a free gift message to the packing slip of most products.

Above services will be giving personal touch to you and whoever those devices are given to.

(Source: Apple Online Store).

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iPad 3: Will It Be Launched End of This Year?

While iPad 2 have just been officially announced on Wednesday, 02 March in San Fransisco by Apple, Inc executives, including Steve Jobs who delivered Keynote Speech, rumor about iPad 3 have just been spread out more intensily than before.

Using iOS 5, screen with Retina Display technology, SD Card slot, 1 GB RAM, 24-bit audio hardware systems, better camera especially the back one, A6 Dual/Quad Core processor and longer battery life are several predicted additional features compared to iPad 2. Multiple user accounts, well-arranged notifications at the top bar are expected by most of the first iPad’s users.

This device is expected to be released at the end of this year due to PC Tablet higher tense of competition. All of us have read that HP will be releasing TouchPad with webOS 3.0, Motorola with their Android-based Tablet called Zoom and RIM with their Playbook. Product Life Cycle of iPad is getting shorter. As always, the new product will be sold with the same price as the previous’ that makes high barrier to entry. Thus, make other products is harder to compete.

With long history of quality and phenomenal products, seems that the launch of iPad 3 is worth-waiting. 

(Compiled from various sources)

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Share Foodie Information with Epicurious

This is one of the best recipe/foodies application in iTunes/AppStore with more than 30.000 recipe from well know website such as Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Master Chef and famous book recipes.

Excellent User Interface and recipe classification while calories, nutrition and latest information are all well arranged. Instead of recipes, there is food and beverage information about that is suitable for specific events or seasons. Every recipe has their own nutrition’s information.

Recipes can be saved and synchronized with our account in www.epicurious.com. Sharing recipes and culinary information can be done with others through email. 

If we want to cook, start with searching appropriate food and beverage we want to serve. After defining various and types of it, we can utilize available recipes to know the necessary ingredients. After that, shopping check list can be made and we can buy those ingredients in the nearest store. Efficient & effective.

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/epicurious-recipes-shopping/id312101965?mt=8# 

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Let’s Tweet with Twittelator!

This is one of the snappiest and elegantly designed Twitter and application, instead of Osfoora, for iPad. They have complete tweeting features: multiple account, Direct Message, Reply, Reply All, Mention, Search, Lists, Trends, Location-based Service and obviously, Retweet.

The Retweet itself can be posted with old and new style (quote model). Beside that we can do searching based on keyword, hashtag, user account or any other keywords. Those tweets are presented in chat view which ease us to trace our conversation right away and can be posted to Facebook wall as well.

Instead of post text, we can post that will be inline with our tweet & post audio content.  

Several integrated services offered by this application are 9 (nine) photography services, 2 (two) audio services, 4 (four) shorten URL services including bit.ly. We can also read tweet offline using Instapaper, ReadItLater & OmniFocus.

iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twittelator-for-ipad-twitter/id364467713?mt=8

 

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Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia: Free of Charge!

As we all know, Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) is the official and main dictionary as a reference for proper Bahasa Language. 

If we would like to use it, this 7.1 MB application can be downloaded and installed from AppStore. 

iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/id/app/kamus-besar-bahasa-indonesia/id394867151?mt=8#

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Dictionary and Thesaurus in iPad

This free Dictionary and Thesaurus application comes from two popular web site in their field, www.dictionary.com and www.thesaurus.com. There is 1 millions words and definition plus 90.000 thousands synonym and antonym inside.

Installing and using this application is similar with having our hard copy dictionary and thesaurus since all content (43.1 MB) is fully downloaded to our iPad storage media. 

Other advantage compared to conventional dictionary & thesaurus is that we can listen how word is pronounced correctly since iPad has the capability to do so.

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Microblogging with Tumbly

All of us is already familiar with Tumblr as one of the micro blogging service provider. Their application run over webOS platform is known as Tumbly.

Dashboard is their main feature that allows us to create & edit our post & draft. The content of our post can be varied from text, photo, quote, link, chat and audio file. And doing search as well. 

We can see notifications & posts from people that we are following with easy ways. 

This application requires webOS 1.4.0 or later. The latest version is 1.0.2.

Let’s continue blogging with Tumbly!


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