Bought myself a new toy – Samsung OMNIA (SGH-i900)

Samsung OMNIA is possibly the best ever smartphone that Samsung has ever built. OMNIA means ‘everything’ in Latin and ‘wish’ in Arabic. As what have been advertised – it is “everything you wish for in your mobile, it brings together high performance business content, high-end design mixed with a full bag of dynamic multimedia rich experience”.

I purchased this phone on 8 Aug, 2008 – the very day that Beijing Olympics game starts. I have heard a lot about this new gadget, and found a list of related websites online:

• http://samsungomnia.org/
• http://www.samsung-omnia.org/
• http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/omnia/index.jsp
• http://samsungomnia.com/

Just had its battery fully charged last night, and upgraded with latest firmware… will start testing now 😛

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World’s Largest Banks – 2008 Update

According to Bloomberg.com, here is a list of world’s biggest banks by market capitalization in current U.S. dollar terms, showing their rank at the end of January 2008, 2007 and 2003.

Rank as of 1/31/2008		Mkt cap ($bln)	Rank as of 1/31/2007	Rank as of 1/31/2003
1	ICBC	277.514	4	NA
2	Bank of America	195.933	2	2
3	HSBC Holdings	176.788	3	3
4	China Construction	165.234	7	NA
5	Bank of China	165.087	6	NA
6	JPMorgan Chase	159.615	5	9
7	Citigroup	140.698	1	1
8	Wells Fargo	112.365	11	4
9	Banco Santander	109.862	12	23
10	Mitsubishi UFJ Financial	105.412	9	22
11	ABN Amro+	103.643	34	29
12	UniCredit	97.591	15	32
13	Intesa SanPaolo	89.954	16	46
14	BNP Paribas	88.487	14	15
15	Goldman Sachs	87.602	18	18
16	UBS	84.878	8	7
17	BBVA	78.302	19	25
18	Sberbank	77.713	31	109
19	Royal Bank of Scotland	76.023	10	6
20	Wachovia	75.401	13	8

 

+ RBS, Santander and Fortis agreed to buy ABN Amro in 2007.

Source: Bloomberg.com

 

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