China’s trade minister says that the pace of textile imports in the EU from China is starting to slow.

Georgia-Pacific’s bath-tissue maker Angel Soft hopes to emulate the online advertising success of other companies.

Are wholesale buyers and retail customers really different? Frankly, there are two answers to this question: yes and no. Yes, because they are different from the buyers and those selling to buyers’ point of view and no, because the principles that apply are the same for both types of buying.

Fierce competition. Never give an inch. Is that really the best way to operate your small business in the Twenty-First Century? I am not convinced that taking no prisoners, as Mary Schmidt of Mary’s Blog puts it, is the best approach to business.

The Macromedia Dreamweaver MX have these powerful new addition to its toolset – introducing, Snippets!

The first step in planning an agenda is to identify the goals for the meeting. Properly done, goals have five S M A R T characteristics. They are:

IBM said that it will be cutting between 10,000 and 13,000 jobs as part of its new restructuring plan.

Interex reports that Nora Denzel, HP’s senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Adaptive Enterprise and Software Global Business Unit …

How many leads have come into your business since the beginning of time that never closed? That is a salient question. Who knows how many, but I bet there are a lot.

Another player has entered the battle for UK supermarket chain Somerfield, and that player is the United Co-op.

PDA sales grew by a substantial 25% in the last quarter according to a new report from the Gartner research firm. Blackberry led the way growing exponentially in Western European sales, beating out traditional PDA frontrunner PalmOne and HP.

Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It’s got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It’s got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.

Standard and Poor’s cuts the credit rating of two Detroit automakers to junk status, sending share prices down.

Indonesia health officials confirmed two more cases of the paralyzing polio bring the total up to six with about a dozen more possible cases being check. Indonesia makes the 16th country to have polio reintroduced in the last two years and the archipelago nation had been polio free for 10 years.

Lower operating expenses in its mass-markets division helped the telco reduce its loss for the quarter.

Doing a current customer breakdown can help you find the goldmine within your business by determining who you should be targeting in your marketing efforts in the future. There is a goldmine right there and you may or may not see itit’s your customer base! But is it all of them? No – definitely not. Then what the heck am I talking about?

China claims to be hard at work on adjusting its exchange-rate system, and urges people to be patient.

While phishing attempts continue to try and trick users into giving up personal info, a new tactic tries to simply observe users and copy their keystrokes instead.

Existing rules prevent telecoms from offering new Internet-based services, claims the San Antonio-based telco.

The web is abuzz with talk of the pros and cons of the new Google Web Accelerator. Mostly the con, and the issue is privacy. I want to let you in on an immediate problem you must understand.

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of the changing field of communication your blog exists in …

Wireless security software developer Columbitech recently announced wireless VPN support for securing wireless voice applications (wVoIP).