Phil Wolff: project managementGetting things done.Local talent, sourcing help Matsushita Electric survive in China- March 12, 2003 Asahi Shimbun reports Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., after 15 years in China, stopped importing parts from Japan in favor of making parts with local, cheaper labor. Keeping up with the competition, especially when labor is a key factor of production costs. Not too novel. Now they're moving R&D to China. Matsushita stopped making microwaves in Kentucky in November 2000, and shifted production to Shanghai. Matsushita is shifting not only production but also research and development to.http://www.asahi.com/english/business/K2003031200255.html 4.9 - South Of Fiji Islands- March 10, 2003 Get U.S.G.S. earthquake alerts piped to your desktop from around the world via "RSS". 4.9 - South Of Fiji Islands TIMESTAMP (UTC) LAT LONG DEPTH MAG COMMENT 2003-03-06 18:47:03 -24.72 179.8 500.4 4.9 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS Good use of technology. Next steps... News readers to filter incoming items. While you could do full text, like most email clients, it's more useful to compare against structured data. This assumes the RSS feed is an envelope for a more structured description. In this case,..http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_raba.html |