China’s Huawei Technologies, one of the world’s leading networking and telecommunications equipment suppliers (and big Cisco rival), has just announced that it has signed a contract with British Telecom for the deployment of its multi-service access network (MSAN) and Transmission equipment for the BT 21CN network. This seems to be an important step forward [...]

An intereresting piece in the FT today about 3g standards and China. Basically there are three competing technologies: the European-backed WCDMA and US-supported CDMA-2000 standards, and the Chinese TD-SCDMA technology. There is a wikipedia entry on TD-SCDMA. Basically the Chinese system doesn’t imply the payment of license and patent fees (what a surprise) and it [...]

Just on the day when the French Assemblée Nationale kind of accidentally introduced some kind of “cultural flatrate” (which is obviously opposed to the government’s intent) the Independent has learnt that the British government is demonstrating boldly that digital technology need not be used to free either bits and bytes, or even people.
Britain is to [...]

Today’s news is of course welcome news for everyone who cares about poverty in the third world, but going back to my Evo Morales post during the week, this policy will only really bring the benefits it could do if it is combined with a systematic drive to change the demographic profile of these [...]

Following up on my spoof post about the complexity of making bets when it comes to new pharma products, worries about Tamiflu continue. The original issue was one of unexplained deaths in Japan, which were, more or less, subsequently explained. Now there are questions about its efficacy in the case of the H5N1 flu strain, [...]

Updating on my post from yesterday, Dave Altig at MacroBlog reproduces a map (first posted by Sun Bin) of services as a component of GDP. As Dave points out China has clearly be come a significant outlier among would-be-developed economies in its reliance on manufacturing share. Even with the most recent data added in China [...]

Consultants KPMG and French employers’ group Medef have just published a survey on attitudes to globalisation and outsourcing. Interestingly a higher percentage of employers than previously said they saw no benefit in moving jobs to countries with cheaper labour markets (56% compared with 29% last year), while 74 per cent said broader foreign investment [...]

As Emmanuel rightly noted, “the other big winner of the (EU) summit is of course Angela Merkel”. As he also goes on to note, “the Süddeutsche Zeitung may be overdoing it with a “the Angela-summit” title, but Merkel has emerged, somewhat unexpectedly considering her lack of experience at the European level….”.
Well, it seems that [...]

And this time it’s one that has been achieved in a little under 24 hours. China’s economy is now - officially speaking in any event - 17% bigger than it was yesterday. It will now be a neck and neck race for 4th place in the world economy league this year (the UK is the [...]

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