Don't CC me, I'll CC you

Carbon paper fascinated me when I was younger. Write once, get two copies. What a great invention and work tool, I thought.

Then came e-mail, and making carbon copies of important notes and messages got even easier. So effortless, in fact, that CC has become one of the most abused office tools today.

There've been one too many times when I've..... Read more »

Tags: Carbon, ROI, CC, business process, job, game, tool, e-mail

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Where have all the bosses gone?

I've had dreams of opening my own cafe or bistro...cum music store...cum music school. But, I soon gave up that dream when I realized it would require significant investment and guts to start a new business from scratch--money which I didn't have, and guts which I didn't have enough of...and still don't.

It ain't easy setting up your own shop, and..... Read more »

Tags: Entrepreneur, Alibaba.com, Small And Medium Enterprise, Courage, medical device, B2B, Israel, China, Singapore, Korea

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What Y2K can teach us about 2012

Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as we know it. The apocalypse. Armageddon.

The end of the world prediction spawns mainly from the Mayan Long Count calendar, which terminates on that fateful December 2012 day. I would suggest the Mayans quite simply possibly ran..... Read more »

Tags: Y2K, Prediction, Y2K bug, NASA, Sony Pictures, viral marketing, Human Life, Web Site, information technology, Australia

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Eileen Yu

Eileen Yu began covering the IT industry when Asynchronous Transfer Mode was still hip and e-commerce was the new buzzword. These days, she gets stirred up over issues concerning Internet regulation, intellectual property rights and software patents, online privacy and data protection. Eileen is senior editor at ZDNet Asia, where she oversees the business tech news site.