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  • Virtual Offices Give Some Companies Big-City Prestige
    While the Internet is making the world a smaller place, some companies with offices in remote locations may need more than just a Web presence to attract more business.
  • UPS Helps Camping Company Keep Up With Santa's Elves
    Wondering what to get that special outdoor enthusiast this holiday season? New Hampshire-based Jetboil came up with something for campers worried about Jack Frost nipping at their noses.
  • U.S.-traded Company Sets Up Chinese E-government
    An American company in China? It may seem unusual, but a U.S.-traded company is building an e-government system in Jinjiang and Nanan of the Fujian province in the People's Republic of China.
  • U.S. Economy Needs Skilled Foreign Workers
    The U.S. economy has shifted significantly over the past 50 years. We are no longer the blue collar nation that we once were. The transformation from a manufacturing to a knowledge-based economy has created a growing demand for skilled technical workers. This demand has been accompanied by a decline in the number of native-born students seeking degrees in the fields of science, engineering and technology.
  • Tips on Conducting a Successful Presentation
    Whether you're a student, a full-time employee or the head of a book club, there is one task that is hard to avoid: public speaking.
  • Rapid Prototyping Revolution
    In the past, any new consumer or industrial product part brought to market had to first have a prototype built to ensure that the design could be properly applied and used by the manufacturer. Years ago, these were often wooden miniatures and clay models. More recently, laser-sintering technology has allowed plastic samples to be built from CAD/CAM electronic drawings and powdered resin.
  • Outsourcing Trend Grows As Companies Cut Costs
    As companies face the challenge of improving productivity and efficiency with ever-shrinking budgets, the need for outsourcing certain operations has grown. And ironically, although digital technologies become more important in business, the idea of a paperless office seems more distant than ever.
  • Oil Partnerships: How to Protect Your Investment
    As burgeoning economies push the demand for oil to historic highs, some analysts say the world's oil production is in the process of peaking. Believing that an oil crisis -and, thus, higher prices - is inevitable, some investors are seeing dollar signs in their future.
  • Office Buildings: Owners Using New Warning System
    In light of terrorist attacks, anthrax scares and similar threats, office building owners are now faced with a daunting task - keeping their buildings safe and secure.
  • Nostalgia Is Big Business For Clothing Company
    Times change and memories fade, but nostalgia for the past is forever.

    Retro style is coming back -; from automobiles and home furnishings to sports equipment and consumer electronics. But nowhere is this more apparent than in clothing.
  • Mines Reopen as Coal Takes Lead in Energy
    In the mid-1990s, coal was not king, but today, it may be taking back its throne. Back then, natural gas was at center stage as the preferred energy source of environmentally conscious Americans everywhere.
  • Micromanufacturing Opportunities Grow
    The demand and application of micron and sub-micron manufacturing requirements is growing, which offers unique challenges and immense opportunities to a wide group of tool shops and production parts manufacturers in the United States. The term micromachining loosely refers to part details and holes smaller than the human hair that are measured only in microns-or one thousandth of a millimeter.
  • Medical Innovations Via Modern Machine Tool Technology
    Massive advancements have been made in the cost and the quality of orthopedic devices, implant devices and many other medical components. These advancements have been supported, and in many cases made possible, by the modernization of equipment and manufacturing investments in the medical products industry.
  • Maintaining Jobs and Work Through Machine Automation
    One of the great misleading myths of modern manufacturing is that North America cannot compete in a global manufacturing marketplace and is losing jobs due to lower foreign labor costs.
  • Improving Manufacturing Cycle Times Through Machine Tooling
    Machining center manufacturers are all looking for and touting the ability to reduce part cycle times by offering faster and more efficient machines. That is what the job shop and part production customers of these products demand, because their end-product customers are driving a purchasing philosophy of lower costs per part.
  • Five Ways to Make Your Organization Innovative
    Creative ideas are what turn ordinary companies into market leaders. These companies see the end result first and then build a path to achieve those results.
  • Father Knows Best: The Story of an Inventor
    They say necessity is the mother of invention. In at least one notable case, it served as motivation for a resourceful father as well.
  • Editors Help Business People Do the 'Write' Thing
    You've got spelling and grammar checkers on your laptop computer, so you're all set to crank out the perfect sales letter while you're on the road.
  • E-Government in China Soon to Be a Reality
    Without question, the world is a big place. However, with the constant development of information technology, the world seems to get smaller all the time.
  • Creatiing Liquidity for Private Company Shares
    Just imagine if investors had a vehicle for buying and selling shares in private companies-a type of entrepreneurial exchange. Currently, alternative investors face two obstacles in realizing their earnings: time and exposure.
  • Company CEO Holds Drawing for His Salary
    RX Processing Corp.'s CEO Peter Fiorillo is serious about supporting the passage of the Dorgan-Snowe bill that is currently trying to make its way through Congress. He is so serious that he has implemented a campaign that allows citizens to enter into a lottery to win his first year's salary: 500,000 shares of company stock.
  • Coal Reduces Reliance On Foreign Oil
    Recently, the price of a barrel of oil rose to $40, the most expensive price in American history. With the rise in oil prices and constant instability in the Middle East, the United States seems headed for an energy crisis.
  • Coal Makes a Comeback
    The United States is returning to coal to generate electricity. Long-dormant mines are being reopened to gather coal, which generates most of the electricity in the country. Why is coal once again such an important resource?
  • Coal Helps America Through Power and Jobs
    You may not realize it, but the coal industry plays a large part in the U.S. economy.
  • Chairman Believes God Belongs in the Boardroom
    Howard Jonas, founder and chairman of IDT Corp., was 14 years old when he started selling hot dogs on a street corner in the Bronx. Today, he runs a multibillion dollar telecommunications company that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. What is the secret of his success?
  • Being Competitive in a GM
    The challenges of today's global marketplace are forcing companies to look at doing things differently in order to get that extra edge over their competition.
  • Alternative Investors Eye Private Companies
    In broad strokes, Entrex is a brand-new market for the alternative investment community. It takes the compliance standards and reporting structures that have long been a part of the public investing market and applies them to private companies.
  • A New Beginning for Coal
    Because after years of mine shutdowns and declining prices, the coal industry is making a prosperous return.
  • 3 Million Items and Counting, Bidville Becomes Big Business
    Since their introduction, online auction sites have been making e-history as some of the most popular destinations on the Internet. From designer-label clothing to grandma's jewelry to cars and even houses, anything and everything imaginable can be auctioned off online.
  • 'Shifts' to Help You in Times Good or Bad
    Six months ago, the economy was roaring. Stock prices were going up, interest rates were staying low, unemployment was down. A few months later, those indicators all were going in opposite directions. Now, it's hard to tell from day to day where we stand.
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