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Home is where the job is

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Australians have been successful in finding work in the high-technology industry outside of Australia. The project leader for Microsoft's Window 2000 program is Australian Iain McDonald, who lives in Seattle, WA. The vice president of international for Yahoo! is Australian Heather Killen, who lives in California's Silicon Valley. Australians are valued for the work they can do and are not prejudiced against in the American work environment because of their apparent ethnic neutrality. Also, the high-technology industry generally values individual job performance more than any cultural characteristic in their employees.

High technology industry, International aspects, Emigration and immigration, Expatriation, Occupational mobility, Australians

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New world orders

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An investigation by US-based data analysis firm Forrester Research on the Internet economy indicates Australia should be ready for hyper-growth because of its consumer oriented culture. Australians must not let business conservative hold it back. Business must take advantage of Australia's infrastructure and political environment, redefine their business practices and cost structure to offset competition from areas benefiting from lower labour costs.

Business, Innovations, Science and technology policy, Information services, International competition (Commerce), International competition (Economics)

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New word order

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Issues are presented concerning the economic potential of speech recognition software. The benefits which faster processing power will bring to the development and accuracy of speech recognition systems are discussed.

Software, Voice recognition, Speech recognition

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