But the successful purchase of IBM's PC computer arm by Chinese computer company Lenovo shows another model.
American William Amelio was hired with much fanfare in late 2005 to take charge of Chinese computer giant Lenovo--and integrate that company's acquisition of ibm's mammoth but moneylosing PC business.
As the Endpoint guy, I pay attention to the outer fringe of the connection, and for that reason a new offering from Lenovo, the Chinese computer company, caught my eye.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
Motorola's news follows similar announcements by Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which is building a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and Apple, which has said it will begin manufacturing a Mac computer in the U.S. this year.
"Lenovo delivered another terrific quarter, with shipment growth of 32.9% compared to the same period in 2009, " read the report, which noted that the Chinese computer maker had achieved year-over-year shipment growth in excess of 30% for every 2010 quarter.
On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
Apple owns 79.3% of the Chinese tablet computer market, compared to just 5.1% for rival Samsung, according to IDC.
According to those who have followed the attack at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, a cybersecurity crisis response organization, the infection tool is partially written in Chinese characters and compiled on a computer with Chinese language settings.
And 5 years from now when a significant percentage of the Chinese population can afford a personal computer, I have a hunch that it will be Chinese computers, rather than imported American computers, that will be their computer of choice.
Note: Chinese businesses such as computer brand Lenovo, e-commerce leader Alibaba, telecom hardware giant Huawei, and auto parts maker Wanxiang have looked in recent years to tap into the U.S. marketplace and resources.
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Analysts say that Chinese scientists have benefited from training at top computer centers in the U.S. and Europe and the availability of computer chips and other parts from abroad, as well as consistent Chinese government funding and support.
Microsoft has teamed up with ten manufacturers, including Legend, China's largest computer maker, to market Chinese Palm PCs.
Computer coding systems convert most Chinese pictorial characters for printing, but some are so rare that they are never assigned a code.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
The country accounts for 20% of personal computer and handset demand and the Chinese consumer, Credit Suisse says, is very price sensitive.
"In China we are jealous of our HR co-workers in the U.S., " where online recruiting platforms are more mature and can attract qualified candidates, said Willa Wang, talent acquisition director at Lenovo China, the Chinese unit of Hong Kong-based personal computer company Lenovo Group Ltd.
Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
Chinese strategists cover a wide range of technologies and capabilities in computer warfare.
Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
After earning mathematics and computer-science degrees at Eastern Michigan University, Chinese national Maria Zhang worked for Microsoft and Zillow, an online real-estate firm, before starting a mobile technology company, called Propeld, in Bellevue in late 2010.
When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates visits the region, Knook can bask along with Bill as thousands of Chinese (or Indians or Japanese) turn up to shower adulation and respect on a computer industry legend.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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Other computer manufactures, including Sony and Acer, say they are bound to comply with the Chinese policy.
Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public comment draft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.
In addition to denying it condones computer hacking, China also has said that it is itself a victim of cyberattacks and that Chinese law forbids such attacks.
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"It's part of this overall story that the Chinese want to know what the West thinks of them, " said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer with the computer-security company Mandiant Corp.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
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