Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Friday, June 17, 2005

Top 10 Celebrity Email Viruses  (techdrivenlife) According to this report by Panda Software, Britney Spears edged out Bill Gates as the top celebrity asscoiated with malicious software distributed via email.   This is a study as to which celebrities most often had their names involuntarily used in association with malicious spam.  Rounding out the third to 10th places were 3.) Jennifer Lopez ,  4.) Shakira , 5.) Osama BinLaden  , 6.) Michael Jackson , 7.) Bill Clinton ,  8.) Anna Kournikova,  9.) Paris Hilton  and 10.) Pamela Anderson. Next time you received an email from any of them, unless you know them personally, just put it in the recycle bin...     11:02:11 PM     comment []   trackback []

The American Criminal Legal System  (tidbits) Michael Jackson was declared innocent.  According to this news commentary, it was more than beating the odds -- it was a peculiar case.  It is said that a vast majority of criminal cases in California and elsewhere is now resolved by pleas.  As such, acquittals also are becoming rare.  For instance, in 2002, it was reported that in California, out of 236,471 felonies, only 766 or less than 1% were acquittals, and the overall conviction rate is about 83%. In Santa Barbara County, where the Jackson case was heared, the convinction was even at 87% percent.  And out of 2,407 felonies, only 3 were acquitted.   One of the takeouts here is that district attorneys don't prosecute unless they have a more than 50% chance of winning <more>....   10:58:20 PM     comment []   trackback []

Preferences on reading news  (techdrivenlife) Reuters reported that over 20 percent of the web users now prefer to read news online and have forgone reading papernews.  A significant 72 percent though still read print editions, and 7 percent read both.  Of the online news only, the number one choice is New York Times, with over 11.3 million audience in May.  Second was USA Today  with 9.2 million while the third was the Washington Post who posted a significant 10 percent year on year to garner 7.4 million visits.  For internet only companies who gather news from various sources, Yahoo got an online audience of 23.8 million, while Google News garnered 7.1 million. We have slowly change our habits, and this report further reflects the traction that internet is gaining on our lives.   10:41:05 PM     comment []   trackback []

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