Archive for February 17th, 2008
Baxter Blood-Thinner Case: Who Didn’t Check What?
Sunday, February 17th, 2008A few newspapers have reported on the contaminated blood-thinner news by leading with the information that the facilities had not been inspected by the FDA. I’m going to leave alone the issue of facility inspections and instead reference an e-mail that I received from an old friend who happens to be in corporate finance […]
Google Report Claims 67% Of All “Drive-By Downloads” Originate In China
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Google has surveyed the Internet using its web crawlers, and they have reported 67% of all malicious websites are based in China. These are websites where a visitor may find itself attacked by a “drive-by download”.
“It costs next-to-nothing to register a web domain in China and service providers are often slow to shut down malicious […]
Mandarin Language Tools: The New Technology Wave
Sunday, February 17th, 2008The NY Times just published an article about Mandarin training in the modern era. It’s a brave new world with all sorts of new gadgets. If you’re studying Chinese, you can now network with language speakers via webcam, or else you can download podcasts from the Internet. When I was studying Mandarin, the […]
Is Unemployment In China Good For Your Business?
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Someone has declared “the party is over” because of looming unemployment (due to a downturn in the global economy). I have doubts that China’s economy is going to slow so much that it will affect employment , but, anyway, a decrease in demand for labor might be helpful in offseting the effects of “agflation” […]