Asia & Pacific

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BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Roger L. Martin	What Innovation Advantage? Chinese and Indian companies aren't leaving design to the North Americans.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Infosys Doesn't Compute As well as the business is performing, the Indian IT outsourcing king's stock has a built-in defect that should make investors think twice before jumping in.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Outsourcing's Endgame Outsourcing will end as soon as it becomes economically illogical to continue it, and not a moment sooner. Already, wages for Indian workers ranging from call center operators to programmers to engineers are increasing at rates of 15% to 30% per annum.
BusinessWeek January 16, 2006 Frederik Balfour	Venture Capital's New Promised Land These days venture capitalists from Silicon Valley to Sydney are trolling for deals in China.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Harry Goldstein	Loser: A Touch Too Much Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.'s human area network approach to data transfer targets a solved problem. Unless NTT can overcome some major technological, psychological, and economic hurdles, a HAN won't ever amount to anything.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Harry Goldstein	Loser: Too Little, Too Soon With 80-GB hard drives fast becoming the standard for affordable laptop computers, Samsung's plan for pricey flash-based solid-state disks is impractical.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Steven Cherry	Winner: A Radio Bypass A Malaysian Internet service provider sidesteps its biggest competitor.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Seema Singh	India's Year of Computing Inexpensively Indian manufacturers introducing inexpensive computers are betting on economies of scale. In a country of more than 1 billion people in which fewer than 1 percent own computers, that isn't much of a gamble.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 John Boyd	Tokyo Power Quake-Proofs Its Grid Control System By maintaining an attitude of vigilant preparedness, Japan's Tepco is able to deal with the expected and unexpected and keep its power lines humming almost all the time.
The Motley Fool January 4, 2006 Ellen Dowling	Saving Face in China? Three U.S. cosmetics companies look to China to try to rejuvenate themselves. But the big question on investors' minds is which one.
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