Huawei's Iranian Connection + HP + Panoramic Video +Thai Flood

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(3) Roy Furchgott, A Smartphone Accessory That Shoots 360-Degree Video. New York Times, Oct 27, 2011 (title and date in print).(1) Steve Stecklow, Farnaz Fassihi and Loretta Chao, Chinese Tech Giant Aids Iran; Many dissidents within Iran believe they are being tracked by their cellphones. Wall Street Journal, Oct 27, 2011 (in an occasional series: Censorship Inc).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 51503577823210.html

Quote:

"When Western companies pulled back from Iran after the government's bloody crackdown on its citizens two years ago, a Chinese telecom giant filled the vacuum.

"Huawei has about 1,000 employees in Iran

My comment: There is no need to read the front-page report, for one can imagine what the company is accused of in "enabling Iran's state security network."

(2) Press release: US International Trade Commission Finds in Favor of HP in Inkjet Print Cartridge Infringement Suit. Hewlett-Packard,Oct 26, 2011.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroo ... ?mtxs=rss-corp-news

Note:
(a) Two Taiwanese companies:
(i) Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM)  亞太優勢微系統股份有限公司
http://www.apmsinc.com
(ii) MicroJet Technology Co 研能科技股份有限公司, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based DB-Tel Inc 大霸電子
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBTel
(b) and China-based PTC Holdings Ltd  光導控股有限公司
http://www.ptctoner.com/eg/AboutPTC.asp
("PTC – Professional Toner Cartridge, is supported by Handan PhotoC Technologies Co Ltd" 邯郸光导重工高技术有限公司; "main production centre located in Hebei, China and sales office located in Hong Kong")

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes. ... %20video&st=cse

My comment: The print version is about the length of the online one.

(4) David Pilling, Why the Mad Migration of Parts for Your iPhone Matters. Financial Times, Oct 27, 2011 (column).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/306661 ... 9-00144feabdc0.html
, or
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/r ... il+-+Latest+News%29
(Flood in Thailand, particularly in and around Bangkok, exposes importance of that nation in global supply chain)

"This week, Mazda, Toyota and Toshiba became the latest in a long list of international companies, mostly Japanese, to extend production shutdowns at flooded Thai factories. Honda’s Thai assembly plant, where it churns out nearly 250,000 cars a year, or 5 per cent of its global output, has been shut since Oct 4.

"There’s a revealing story in Gordon Mathews’ Ghetto at the Center of the World, a book about Chunking Mansions, the doss-house-cum-trading hub in Hong Kong. In one example of low-end globalization, Australian opals are shipped, via Chunking Mansions, to southern China where they are polished, sent back to Australia and sold as souvenirs to Chinese tourists.

"It takes a crisis for the inner workings of the supply chain to come to light. Before the March tsunami, even most Japanese were unaware that the Tohoku region produced anything other than rice and fish. It turned out that several essential components were made there, including 40 per cent of the world’s microcontrollers at a factory owned by Renesas. These days, few cars can run without at least 50 of these 'little brains.' When the Renesas plant was knocked out, car production was temporarily halted in several factories around the world.

Note:
(a) opal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal
(b) The column says, "The floods have washed up a third revelation. Almost nothing could be made these days without Asian parts."

wash up (vi): "to be deposited by or as if by a swell of waves <seaweed washed up on the shore>"
(c) electrical connector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_connector
(d) Ippei TAKEDA/ Nichicon Corp  武田 一平/ ニチコン株式会社
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichicon
(one of the largest manufacturers of capacitors in the world; headquartered in Kyoto; In 1950, it separated from the Nii Works Co, established itself as Kansai-Nii Works 株式会社 関西 二井 製作所; In 1961, they adopted the Nichicon name)