How the World Works Home networking, the Chinese way
The News Review:
- How the World Works Home networking, the Chinese way
- How This Tiger Got Its Roar
- Big Things May Come From Baidu
- Disquiet over Islamist web
- Conservative Democrat woos the Midwest
How the World Works Home networking, the Chinese way
Salon – Oct 30, 2006
But the nitty gritty details, which require diving into a tedious analysis of warring white papers, deliberations by standards bodies, and thickets of impenetrable jargon, are generally mind-numbing. (I defy anyone to take the name of the industry alliance formed by the Chinese companies Lenovo, TCL, Konka, Hisense and Great Wall, “Information Equipment Resource Sharing System Service Standards Working Group,” and do anything remotely sexy or clever with it. ) This is all a long-winded way of explaining why How the World Works spends more time contemplating global ecocide or insidious pharmaceutical attemps to rig free trade agreements than it does China’s generally unsuccessful attempts to impose its own home-grown technical standards on the rest of the world. But then, two weeks ago, my interest was piqued by a story by.
How This Tiger Got Its Roar
BusinessWeek – Oct 30, 2006
Wipro faced a crisis. Premji believed there was no way the outfit could beat Compaq, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and IBM in the PC business. The big brands had huge sales and vast research and development budgets, allowing them to underprice and outengineer Wipro and the other home-grown Indian PC outfits. What Wipro did next set the stage for its emergence as a tech services powerhouse. The rescue plan was to sell engineering expertise to the world’s top technology companies. “We saw that while the door was open for others to come into India, it was also open for us to go out. So we decided to become a global company,” says Sridhar Mitta, Wipro’s longtime chief technology officer, who later left to found e4e Inc.
Big Things May Come From Baidu
thestreet.com – Oct 30, 2006
00 a share in 2006 and $1. Although small, as a home-grown champion, Baidu has the inside track going up against Google and Yahoo! (.
Disquiet over Islamist web
Australian IT – Oct 30, 2006
"It’s a steady, stealthy indoctrination aimed at creating a whole new generation of jihadists. And scandalously, it is unopposed," Stephen Ulph, who studies the Islamist web for Washington think tank, Jamestown Foundation, said. E-books and online pamphlets, with titles such as "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad," encourage the growth of home-grown militant cells across the world, including in such Western countries as Canada and Britain, the experts believe. US intelligence is reluctant to mount an effective counteroffensive by recruiting Islamic experts from overseas to rebut and even ridicule Islamist authors, according to experts and US officials. "Anything exposing the West as a supporter would destroy Islamic opposition to the jihadis," one intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "We are completely out of luck with the Muslim world, across the board. " Several agencies including the CIA, FBI and the office of US National Intelligence Director John Negroponte are part of a closely guarded effort to monitor the content of Islamist web sites.
Conservative Democrat woos the Midwest
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 30, 2006
During campaign appearances, he stresses he is “not Washingtonised” or tainted by the sexual and financial scandals that have dogged his Republican rivals. “In Indiana they want to know you are accessible and responsive,” he told The Sunday Telegraph. “I don’t want to say it’s backward but this is a home-grown area with long family lines and a good work ethic. They want to feel like you’re one of them. It is a conservative district. ” Robert Springer, a Vietnam veteran supporting Mr Ellsworth, said he was tired of liberal Democrats from California or New York. “The national Democrats are not too much in touch with our values and our needs.