International Business Meanderings

I’ve had my Palm Treo 680 smartphone for over 3 months now. Used it every day for business and pleasure.
It’s no good. I can’t recommend it. My first Treo (a 270) was an amazing machine and its flip lid made me fel like captain Kirk. This one, doesn’t. No doubt it is more powerful, sleeker, […]

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I had to go to England the day after I got my new Treo smartphone, and I got caught in a heavy downpour. A REALLY heavy downpour. Fortunately… or maybe not, I was wearing good waterproof raingear.
On getting back to the hotel, I found that my wonderfully waterproof pocket had filled up with water and […]

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I do like my toys. I have just purchased a new Palm Treo 680.
I’ve had several smartphones starting years ago with a Treo 270 (I think). I was quite sad when the backlight went but, true to form, rather than getting it mended, I got myself a new phone, a Windows mobile powered one. I […]

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2007. Coming up to 2008. Time has come to say good bye to the fax.

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Shameless plug time: You’re a small technology company or startup, you want to sell to Europe? See my other sites for sales services and translation services

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Sales forecasting should be your best friend. And yet, often it is just a confusing mass of less than precise information that does not reflect the true state of your sales pipeline.

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OK, so manufacturing, writing code, making stuff is important too. But in the end, in order for your new company to work, you have to sell things. Many engineer/inventor types think salespeople are overpaid and clueless and that they could do the job themselves (I started life as one of those). Some can, but the […]

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If you regularly have to translate documents with the same language pair (i.e. English source, French target) and it is important that the translation of terms and phrases be the same, perhaps you should investigate translation memory products.

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It seems that the Xing networking platform wants to attract more French-speking members, judging from this. If you are interested, click here and get a month’s premium membership (and so do I): Join XING
XING France invitation special
Invite your friends in France to join XING. For every person you invite who registers by September 30, you […]

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Orange mobile very recently advised me that they are reducing their “roaming” rates. Make it sound like a great gesture to their customers whereas, of course, they were forced to do it by the European commission (for once they have actually produced something useful).
 Having more than often spent 50 Euros in a day of roaming, […]

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