Some good information not only on performance comparison, but on how USB flash drives work and how usb flash drives are put together. Dual-channel flash drive, anyone?
Find a lost Windows product key
Find a lost Windows product key
For older versions of Windows you can extract the product key from the Windows Registry. Click Start | Run and then type regedit and click OK.
For Windows 95 and Windows 98, browse to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductID
For Windows NT 4.0, browse to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductID
Outsourcing In China
ComputerWorld story: Outsourcing in China
Most providers target the burgeoning domestic market, but a few offer a hybrid approach that appeals to the West.
IDC analyst Eugene Wee says that the Chinese outsourcing market is growing at about 30% annually but was still worth only $586 million at the end of 2005.
Trombly and Marcus are freelance business and technology writers based in Shanghai. Contact them at maria@trombly.com and BillinChina2004@yahoo.com.
Text Messaging Finally Catches on in USA?
Once considered a service used only in Europe and Asia, text messaging is emerging as an important form of communication in the United States, with 40% of the nation’s 220 million mobile phone users sending text messages regularly, according to research from NPD Group.
By comparison, about 21 percent of U.S. subscribers have downloaded a ringtone (although only about 10% can be considered “active” downloaders), while about 9% have downloaded a mobile game.
According to CTIA-The Wireless Assn., U.S. subscribers sent close to 65 billion text messages through the first half of this year. That’s about double the number sent in the first half of 2005.
Karma Capitalism
An businessweek article about the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ becoming the hip new ancient Eastern management text:
“… Indian-born strategists also are helping transform corporations. Academics and consultants such as C. K. Prahalad, Ram Charan, and Vijay Govindrajan are among the world’s hottest business gurus. About 10% of the professors at places such as Harvard Business School, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business are of Indian descent–a far higher percentage than other ethnic groups. “When senior executives come to Kellogg, Wharton, Harvard, or [Dartmouth’s] Tuck, they are exposed to Indian values that are reflected in the way we think and articulate,” says Dipak C. Jain, dean of the Kellogg School.”