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MSNBC interviews a blogger from Good magazine on automation nation. The take away: automation is moving beyond manufacturing sector (e.g. Google test drove an unmanned vehicle in California, or Italian researchers tested a driver-less van, from Italy to China) to service sectors, such as health care . Japan has been deep into robotic technology, a national policy…
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If you want to set the tone for the whole day, pop in Rare Earth collection which opens with a 22-minute long Get Ready followed by I Just Want to Celebrate. The name has nothing to do with current dispute between China and Japan for those planned-scarcity elements. Get ready to celebrate. Dream, dream, dream.…
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From beepers to printers, from pay phones to city-phones, Vietnam was in a hurry to leapfrog to latest in Telecommunication. After all, there are a lot of territories to be covered, even now, with 3-G. But some attempts stick, others faltered according to an article in Labor newspaper. http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=538113 It stated that some rural households…
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Beta was more superior. Yet VHS won out. The market (in this case, movies on tape) dictates the terms. At the present time, it wants all things mobile. In other words, our knowledge and skill set need an upgrade (But I thought technologically, Beta gave crisper resolution!?!! Sorry Sony.) While on tour for his book…
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My 8-year-old decided to dress up as Bat Girl this year. And I remind myself to get ample supplies of candies for Halloween. Something doesn’t change, despite the ups and downs of the global economy (Toys R Us has plans to expand seasonal hiring) e.g. autumn foliage, kids’ innocence and holiday jingles. It’s still “a…
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Ms Yang, a blogger from Dallas, tried out Vietnamese Pho, and quoted her friend from Vietnam, that Pho in the US tastes better due to better beef (from Texan cow?). http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2010/10/pho.php Other people speculated the reason McDonald has yet entered the Vietnamese market (beef barrier to entry?) was because of the price of imported beef…
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When Henry Ford put together two motor cycles side by side to invent the automobile, he wasn’t interested in pleasing his customers, “you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black”. Now, car turns commodity, the Chinese came up with Cherry, the pink car designed to please its female customers Bye bye…
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We put a five-dollar bill in, and got a quarter back. Green. Go. No toll booth collector. Just a machine. Just like you would find at laundromat, or car wash. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Its video rental machines don’t seem to catch up with Red Box and Netflix. Netflix doesn’t seem to catch up with…
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