November 19th, 2009, 11:51
The Economist recently ran an excellent article (“Japan’s technology champions – Invisible but indispensable”) about successful medium size Japanese companies that are global market leaders in proprietary high-tech components. As their unique capabilities are so hard to replicate they can enjoy stable and very high profits year after year.
The article mentions several examples of companies [...]
June 26th, 2009, 16:37
Sometimes I get the feeling that those of us who are active in the tech sector (IT, telecom, mobile, new media) are victims of a collective delusion. We would like to view our own industry as more advanced than the rest of the economy. More innvovative, higher salaries, more ”wow” factor. Incomprehensible for outsiders. We [...]
June 19th, 2009, 11:11
The Wordpress plug-in for multi-language blogs I have been waiting for (WPML) is now reasonably stable and I can launch the blog in English. Sidebars, tagline and widgets are not yet adaptable for dual language versions but that will hopefully be fixed soon. To begin with, I will translate most of my Swedish posts and [...]