SOA saves 100 year old businesses

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1299626,00.html

Turns out they did using nearly 100 year old technology (were mainframes invented before the radio? I forget)

Learn about the future #1 power

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/

This is a good English language online daily, analogous to the Japanese online English language paper Japan Times. Unlike the Japan Times, which has stories about political corruption, whaling inspired boycotts and economic stagnation, the Shanghai Daily can read like a triumphalist saga of the up and coming #1 (except for the bad snowstorms)

This morning’s site has these stories:

Baidu.com says Q4 profit rises 79%

China passes US as world’s second-biggest gold market

How the Chinese banks turned the tables on their big Western rivals

The Chinese government cares about the mental health of its citizens:

Ban on horror videos

And speaking of the current #1:

Behind likely US slump: It’s the debt, Stupid