China may be losing its edge, survey says

Rising costs, product piracy could be taking its toll on China’s competitiveness, according to American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.China may be losing its competitive advantage, mainly because of rising costs, according to a survey of companies compiled by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. I have seen this trend happening on multiple fronts…

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Plaxo aims to turn electronic address book into social network

August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) — Plaxo Inc., which until now has focused on its electronic address book application, announced plans today to allow users to receive feeds of content created at sites like YouTube and MySpace by their friends and family. This is a very good example of how Web 2.0 is playing out where…

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My hardware and software tools when working on my book

Having lots of books and references when writing a book is not fun…. I think I have now found my tools of choice when it comes to my technical working environment. I have a Dell 30 inch monitor, running Dell XPS M1210 laptop with Microsoft Office 2007. The two key components of my work are…

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Dion Hinchcliffe on Web 2.0 in business – very interesting read

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge by ZDNet‘s Dion Hinchcliffe — The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly…

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Onnistu Suuressa Maailmassa – Opas globaaleille kilpakentille

My book project is going on with full force. You can now see the ad in Talentum bookstore from this link. The contents of the book has to do with globalization and topics around running an European technology company from a globalization perspective. Talentum describes the book as follows (in Finnish): Tositapahtumiin perustuva teos, joka…

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