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The Executive Question: Good news for Japan is good news for all - or is it?
Comment Funk, professor at Hitotsubashi University's Institute of Innovation Research and probably the world's greatest expert on the Japanese mobile industry. Japanese are famously enamoured of gizmos. On Good Friday, appropriately enough, the Bank of... [05 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What superhighway?
Comment Whereas the Japanese and South Korean governments stepped into the frame with the vision, plan and supporting legislation, Western governments did not. The dream of broadband has yet to materialise, says Peter Cochrane. [08 Apr 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Outsourcing and offshoring
Comment If it were not for the Japanese, their attention to detail and fetish for quality, we would all be driving unreliable and uncomfortable vehicles and it is unlikely we would be enjoying the high quality cameras, radios, TVs, PCs, laptops and so on... [25 Mar 2004]
Leader: “My universal translator doesn’t seem to be working…”
Leader To start with, Travel Interpreter will go from Japanese to text to a translation engine then back to speech in English. Whereas the verb comes near the beginning of sentences in English, in Japanese it’s at the end. [08 Jan 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.12.03
Round-Up On a related note, Japanese school kids have been taking pictures of hairstyles in fashion magazines and sending them to friends for approval without needing to buy the magazine - something apparently referred to as digital shoplifting. [19 Dec 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: Motivating and rewarding
Comment Establishing this environment of continual improvement - or kaizen, as the Japanese call it - is about giving developers real incentives to think differently so that small but regular improvements are made to the development process. [13 Aug 2003]
PC Recycling: How green is the Valley?
Comment What we found for the fourth year in a row [is that] it's really the Japanese companies that are ahead," Smith said. Many Japanese manufacturers have goals and timetables for removing lead, found in circuit boards and monitors, and bromine, used as... [23 Apr 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking risks
Comment Fujitsu is, of course, a very large Japanese company that is not in the slightest risk of becoming bankrupt. Can private companies shoulder the burden for large and complex IT projects? Still not sure? [03 Mar 2003]
Will Nokia's N-Gage engage the competition?
Comment The Japanese gaming pioneer has sold a combined 120 million units since 1989 and doesn't want a newcomer to steal the one market it still dominates. The glitter must only just be settling on Nokia's launch events for its N-Gage console/phone but we... [06 Feb 2003]
The @ sign around the world - it's a little monkey. And a pig's tail...
Comment It even carries that literal translation in other languages, such as Cantonese, Japanese ('atto makku') and Romanian ('la' - a direct translation of 'at'). The @ sign seems a straightforward beast. We call it the 'at sign', which is what that... [13 Dec 2002]
Napster lives, PCs reincarnated, call centres demystified
Comment The Japanese computing giant is recycling the plastic casing of PCs and turning them into brand-spanking new laptops in news that will delight environmentalists worldwide. At last, somebody has bought Napster - ending another one of the IT sector's... [28 Nov 2002]
Email deities and broadband deaths
Comment There is a Japanese expression for people who die from working too hard. Security company Indicii Salus has released research that shows people care more about the sanctity of snail mail than email. It seems we are more likely to snoop at... [22 Oct 2002]
Can Qualcomm make 3G work in Europe?
Comment The developing 'nightmare' scenario is that we are left waiting for services the Japanese, Koreans and Americans are right now getting used to, and when we do get them, they will be more expensive, certainly in terms of handsets (made by just a... [16 Oct 2002]
Inside Intel: A vendor dossier
Comment After its late 1960s birth, it struggled for a decade, especially when Japanese manufacturers started competing ferociously in the memory chip market. Inside Intel. We know, you've heard that title before. [30 Sep 2002]
Lies, damn lies, and broadband statistics
Comment Many people living abroad are often surprised to find something similar going on overseas - Americans complaining about poor customer service levels or Japanese about lack of innovation, for example. New research from the ITU suggests the UK isn't... [17 Sep 2002]
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