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is low IP protection driving foreign businesses away from China?

IDG News Service — Microsoft sees better opportunities in Indonesia and India than it does in China due to “very, very low” protection for intellectual property in China, Microsoft’s chief executive said Wednesday.

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China is set to surpass the U.S. [...]

tip of the day: remove the 'All Mail' folder from Gmail

Google’s philosophy on email retention is basically ‘keep everything, storage is cheap and we provide filters and search tools to help you out’.  That’s great, but for those of you using Gmail with an IMAP client, such as Mac Mail or Outlook, you probably have the same issues with that approach as I’ve had until [...]

does size matter? (of your LinkedIn profile that is)

Just a quickie .. I was browsing around LinkedIn the other day and happened across a few profiles of very senior people with very limited information on (couple of contacts, couple of jobs listed in their history).  These could, of course, be simply placeholder accounts.  Or they could just belong to people so incredibly busy [...]

track the cost of your company's meetings with MEETorDIE

Everyone loves meetings, right?  Especially those meetings with representation from every department in the company that start at 7:00am, run for most of the day with no real agenda and achieve no real outcome?  Joy!

If you’re after a bit of a light-hearted way to track the cost of these meetings, a new site called ‘MEETorDIE‘ [...]