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Mike Buetow

The big story out of IPC Apex Expo last month – about the only story, really – was the introduction of an open communications standard by Mentor Graphics’ Valor division, followed by the rapid response by more than two dozen assembly equipment providers and software developers over shared concern that the solution to machine-to-machine communication might end up residing in the hands of a single company.

Read more: Good Talk

Mike Buetow
Were you as shocked as I was last month when Sparton announced CEO Cary Wood had resigned?

Read more: Wooden Thinking

Mike Buetow

There’s only so much a company can give away without extracting payment of some kind. Perhaps the world’s biggest provider of free stuff, Google, “gives away” its search tools, but in exchange users are offered less than democratic responses whereby the highest ranked terms are paid for. And in fact, the cost of “free” search is underwritten by copious amounts of advertising.

Read more: Is ‘Free’ Worth It?

Mike Buetow

How many stories can a picture tell?

Read more: Taking Control of Rudder Failure

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