PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Linked In | eMarketing

4月

20日

I belong to a group called eMarketing in Linked In. It sounded like an interesting group with over 100,000 members. But I found that there are just too many people and there is not much one company can do anything with it. Also, when you post something in the discussion, your thread will pushed down by so many posts everyday.

I think I will keep belonging to this group to just keep my eyes on it. Once in a while, there is something that I reply to. I think what this group is good for.

#Business #Marketing

My camera is at the repair shop.

4月

20日

I dropped my everyday camera, Canon G10, and scratch the lens. Now I see darker spots on the LED. Although the images I am getting show no darker spots, I have decided to send it to Canon repair facility in Illinois.

I bought this camera last fall at Circuit City closing sale. It was well under anyone was (still is) selling. Now, without G10, I am carrying around Nikon D70 (my trusted digital SLR). It takes great pictures, but it is bulky.

Two things that I am hoping: (1) I hope I can get my G10 back soon: (2) I hope the repair does not cost too much.

#Others

Exercise

4月

19日

My exercise is basically a round of golf in the weekend. I play 18 holes carrying a golf bag. A round takes about 4 to 5 hours. I played yesterday and shot 91. This is about the average I shoot now days.

#Beauty #Health

Weekend Again

4月

18日

It is a weekend again. I will be play golf at Aldarra today with my friends. Dogs are staying at home relaxing. This is a picture of Tiny last night he was getting very sleepy. Pompom is already sleeping on a couch.

I hope you all have a very good weekend and com back strong on Monday.

#Life #Politics #Society

Panoramic Bellvue

4月

18日

My friend just moved in to top floor penthouse suite in one of the new high riser building. I took picture from the balcony. You can actually look down from there. It is very scary standing so close t the edge.

Please click on the picture to see bigger image.

#Life #Politics #Society

One Point Japanese - - - Zaibatsu

4月

17日

In order to understand Japanese business culture, one needs to understand the history of the Japanese business system. To understand Japanese business history, you need to understand what we call Zai-Batsu. (It is made of two words.)

Zai = Money (Asset)
Batsu = Group based on blood, region or collage (School)

Zaibatsu means, financial relationship of the companies based on family.

You are born belonging to Zaibatsu. It is very rare you become a part of Zaibatsu. Following are the four Zaibatsu.

Mitsubishi
Mitsui
Sumitomo
Yasuda

And there are few more small (still big) Zaibatsu in Japan.

How powerful was (is) Zaibatsu?

One of the largest Zaibatsu in Japan Suzuki Shoten went out of business early 1900s. But this company left following companies.

Kobe Steel
Teijin
Shinko Dentetsu
Sapporo Beer
Showa Shell Oil
Mitsui Toatsu
Fuji Film
Shojitsu
Nippon Seifun
Nihon Kaiun
Taosyo Seimei
Daiwa Seimei

Those are few of the companies that Suzuki Shoten (privately held company) left behind when they close their door. This shows how much influence Zaibatsu have in Japanese economy.

At the end of World War II, zaibatsu became the target of Japanese reform and they were not longer allowed to operate using one Zaibatsu name. When Zaibatsu was no longer, the new name came up Keiretsu is the word used now days to show the preferred relationship of the companies.

#Business #Marketing

One point Business Japanese - - - Kaizen

4月

17日

Kaizen translated to change for better. Kai = Change Zen = Better

It is often used in manufacturing. In order to Zen (Better), one must find Aku (Bad) or waste. Once Aku is found, find the way to make it better. That process is called Kaizen.

When you really think about Kaizen, that what Japanese do best. Japanese are not known for their invention. They just make things better by making it lighter, smaller, faster, safer and cheaper. Those are Kaizen.

This philosophy works in the backbone of PSPINC business. We see a lot of time, money and sleep wasted in building and maintaining IT infrastructure in the world. By providing hosted solutions for basic needs like Web and Email, we will save people money and time with more reliability. That is Kaizen.

#Business #Marketing

Do you like one point business Japanese lesson like this?

Look what we have received today!

4月

17日

Thank you, Governor!

#Business #Marketing

Harry Brelsford

4月

17日

Do you know Harry Brelsford?

For most people, the answer will be NO. However, for many people in IT industry, the answer will be similar to asking, Do you know Arnold Palmer? to golfers. He runs a company called SMB NATION. This company is the Mecca for Small Medium Business IT consultants who use Microsoft Solutions. Ask you IT companies of they know SMB NATION and Harry Brelsford.

He brought us gifts. The gifts are two of the latest book he wrote called Microsoft Response Point Prime and The Small Business Server 2008 Blueprint. You do not need to buy them unless you are an IT consultant. But for IT consultants, those books are like bible.

He told me hed be post the picture on his FACEBOOK today. (Sh_t, I just closed my FACEBOOK account.) He is nice enough to visit us every time he comes to Seattle.)

SMB NATION WEB SITE

#Computer #Internet

Sending a large file over Internet

4月

16日

If you have 1MB picture you want to send to your friend, you just email it.

What if you had 100 of those 1MB pictures that you want to send to your supplier in Boston, what do you do? How about sending 200MB CAD file you need to transfer to your branch in Hong Kong? Can your email handle that much load? How about email on the receiving end? Can they handle that?

The answer is most likely No. Then what are you going to do? Call your IT department to setup a file sharing option like FTP or Exchange Server?

There is a easy way to solve this. It is called MegaMAIL. MegaMAIL allows you to send large file or large amount of files to anyone with the email and browser. MegaMAIL is a server based application works like email software. This is a very cost effective and easy alternative than anything in the market.

PSPINC designed and developed this service and is hosted at secure PSPINC data center in Seattle. This link will take you to the free trial application page.

http://sendmegamail.com/free-trial.php

#Computer #Internet