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Marks also began consolidating suppliers and clients into industrial parks in China, Hungary and Mexico. Flextronics' park in Sarvar, western Hungary, includes a manufacturer of Styrofoam packaging, a maker of cardboard packaging, a forwarding company and a company specializing in sheet-metal stamping. The new Guadalajara location boasts circuit-board fabricators. And all are connected, on a secure computer network, with design and engineering labs around the world...
...Belamire is also likely to receive some kind of redundancy package from Marks & Spencer once all the suits are settled. Coming just a year before presidential elections in France, the waves of layoffs have trade unions and politicians trying their best to turn them back. When French appliance maker Moulinex-Brandt tried to eliminate 670 jobs at a factory in Lesquin in northern France last month, the regional director of labor found the company's restructuring plan inadequate and ordered the firm to restart negotiations with the union. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who seems likely to join the presidential race...
...recognition and designed built-in modems so users can plug PDAs directly into phone lines for Internet access, a useful feature in a country where less than 2% of the population owns a computer. But the China market is hindered by a lack of common software standards. Each PDA maker has gone its own way, creating homegrown?and incompatible?programs for each device. There is little incentive for the independent software developers that have helped come up with 10,000 applications for Palm and more than 650 for Microsoft's Windows...
...applications, the industry will not grow," warns Legend CEO Yang Yuanqing. But it's not easy to persuade rivals that cooperation is worthwhile. Legend, more than any Chinese player, has pushed for common, open standards. So far that hasn't paid off for Legend or its partners. The PC maker introduced China's first PDA based on Microsoft's Chinese Windows CE in May 1999. It has also promoted H-Open, a Chinese operating system it co-developed with a government think tank. But today, PDAs with Windows account for just 15% of Legend's sales, while buyers flock...
...Money-losing Palm isn't as willing to take such risks. The dominant U.S. player only now has a Chinese operating system in the works, mainly because Taiwanese computer maker Acer persuaded Palm officials to let them develop one. Acer will introduce a Chinese Palm under its own brand name later this year. Meanwhile, Palm itself has no immediate plans to market a PDA in China under its brand. "They don't understand China," says Acer executive J.T. Wang. "They do understand it's very difficult to build a sustainable and solid business there...