High Speed Connectivity in America is Slow Compared to Countries like Japan

"To win the battle for public opinion in America, you have to present yourself as a victim; that is how you win the heart of Americans. He who apologizes for using force loses.."

With supply chains stretching to China, customers as likely in Paris as Peoria, outsourcing operations in India and development in Russia, the reality of today's economy is that we must be global to succeed. But how do we succeed at being global? Here are three areas where most American companies need to get better, if they are going to succeed globally.

Video indexing opportunity

It's a "virtual" number that has become a reality through the author's inexperience with Vonage

"Exploring the New World a thousand years ago, a Viking woman gave birth to what is likely the first European-American baby. The discovery of the house the family built upon their return to Iceland has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas."

When the people around you - competitors, colleagues, partners - can run Google searches in their brains during conversations

Islam? Bush? Saddam? How About the Satellite Dish?

The EU struck at the commercial backbone of Microsoft’s global software empire today (12/22/04) – forcing the company for the first time to strip its Windows platform of a popular feature to give competitors a better shot at success.

An EU court ruled Microsoft must immediately divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system without the program that plays music and video.

...but what do we mean by it?