Repair jobs are going high tech
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According to George Keller, executive vice president of the Association for Services Management International, high-technology service is growing fast and will be truly international by the middle of the 1990's. The association commissioned the research and was done by Andersen Consulting. The research resulted in a report titled 'Future Trends II - Perspectives on the High-Technology Services Industry in the 1990's.' The association currently represents 6,000 high-tech service executives and professionals managing about 500,000 technicians. According to Keller, the need for technicians will increase by 50 percent by 1995. The Andersen Consulting study predicts that the traditional service-repair person will be displaced by remote diagnostics. Other predictions include: The Pacific Basin will be a particularly fast-growing area; some companies are better positioned for technical services than others; and customers will focus more on services than before.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Taiwan aims for high-tech niches
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Taiwan moves away from low-technology, hoping to move into high-technology industries. The Taiwanese government has brought back 800 Taiwan-born and American-trained engineers and scientists, and Taiwan hopes to recover more after having suffered a substantial brain drain the the 1970s and 1980s. Taiwan hopes to become an innovator instead of a imitator, and the government invests in a science park to facilitate the vision. Analysts see the progress as slow but the science park has 107 companies already, and room is running out. The move toward high-technology will not be easy since it requires substantial investment in research and development and Taiwanese in the US may not be eager to leave behind the salaries and comforts.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Are antitrust enforcers right to be going after Microsoft?
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The Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general are right to demand to preserve competition in computer software business and the Internet, according to one view. Microsoft should work with the government to reshape the market and help consumers get the products they desire. On the other hand, however, the Justice Department's motives are not to break up Microsoft Corp., but to regulate the content of its products.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 1998
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