The outsourcing of jobs to China and India has moved to new levels, affecting white collar workers in information technology who’ve traditionally felt invulnerable to the same plight that affected the manufacturing industry. This trend is fraught with thorny issues on all sides. No one can claim definitively that the professional jobs lost in the […]
Read MoreChinese human rights activist, Gao Zhan, who was freed from a Chinese prison after the U.S. government interceded, is now being prosecuted by the U.S. government for selling China technology from the U.S. Zhan pleaded guilty on Wednesday to illegally selling American high-tech items with potential military uses to China.
Read MoreIn Hong Kong, maids take computer training courses to help their employers with doing the household budget, designing and maintaining the family website and even helping with homework by doing Internet searches. How’s this for bridging the digital divide in China?
Read MoreA two-year study of Internet use and its impact in China reveals that the key drivers behind its growth are market forces, including people’s increasing desire to go online and competition among service providers, and the government’s view of the information technology sector as an engine for economic growth. The study also examines the demographics […]
Read MoreIncreasingly, big companies are finding the Chinese market to be the spark plug they may need to jump start their ailing businesses and the battle ground to prove themselves in competition. Sun Microsystems takes on Microsoft directly in announcing that it has reached an agreement to install its Linux desktop software on more than 200 […]
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