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Why Outsourcing to Vietnam is a Sound Business Decision

August 10th, 2009 at 12:41pm Under intellectual property

1. Overview

This document lays out the business case for meeting your company’s software development needs by outsourcing to Vietnam. It first outlines factors to consider in deciding which offshore locations to outsource to. Then it considers those factors one at a time for Vietnam, concluding that the country is a promising offshore location for outsourced software development and for business’ other IT needs.

2. Factors to Consider Regarding the Offshore Provider’s Location

In this section, we present a simple and straightforward framework for understanding the advantages and disadvantages of various offshore locations for your outsourced projects and business functions. This list of factors focuses on the most important and relevant factors, without becoming overly complex by listing unimportant minutiae.

The main factors that should be considered are as follows:

3. The Benefits of Outsourcing to Vietnam

As stated in the introduction, this section will evaluate Vietnam as an outsourcing destination against each of the factors listed in the preceding section.

4. Who outsources to Vietnam?

Many Japanese companies are choosing to outsource much of their IT work to Vietnam. According to a November 2006 article in GlobalServices, “Vietnam: Capitalizing on the China-Japan,” by the year 2010 as much as 10% of Japan’s software outsourcing may be sent to Vietnam.

Intel is also heavily reliant on Vietnam to meet its outsourcing needs. In October of 2006, Intel Capital, the unit involved in venture capital for the Intel Corporation, announced a $3.5 million investment in FPT, Vietnam’s largest software company, located in Hanoi. Earlier in that same year, the company said that it was going to build a factory for chip assembly and testing with a price tag of $300 million (San Jose Mercury News, “Intel Invests in Vietnam Software Company, October 24, 2006).

Other companies that have chosen to outsource to Vietnam include Nortel Networks, Bayer, Sony, Cisco, and Anheuser Bush (source: CIO.com, “Outsourcing to Vietnam”).

5. Vietnam Is an Excellent Outsourcing Destination

For all the reasons described above, Vietnam is clearly an excellent choice for meeting any business’ outsourcing needs. Here is a quantitative summary of the advantages of working with offshore providers located in Vietnam.

Contact:

Ms. Doanh Nguyen: Sales

Email: sales@blueball.com.vn

Sales Representative

International Marketing Department

Blue Ball Co. Ltd.

www.blueballgroup.com

Thailand

252/94 Muang Thai – Phatra Complex

Tower 2, 17th floor, Ratchadapisek Rd.

Huay Kwang, Bangkok, Thailand Tel: +66 2 6932940

Fax: +66 2 6932941

Vietnam

Quang Trung Software City Ground Floor, Anna Building District 12, Ho Chi Minh City Tel: +84 8 4371032 Fax: +84 8 4371033

Copyright, Copyrighting and Online Copyright Abuse. Save Yourself the Headache by Reading This!

July 13th, 2009 at 06:39pm Under copyright infringement

Lets start with copyright infringement.

It is easily explained as copying someone else’s work without
gaining permission first. This includes publishing other peoples
work to your web site, newspaper, magazine or even just
downloading it to your computer can be seen as copyright
infringement. The last is known as a grey area.

Other peoples work means anything created by a person. It can be
written content, graphical content, musical content or even
html, JavaScript, PHP, CGI, patterns, textures, animations. It
is anything tangible that’s created by a person. NOTE: A idea
cannot be copyrighted due to the fact it is not tangible.

Example….

I have just finished reading a book on how to service my car.
The author of the book explains in detail the different ways a
person can go about the job. He also details tips and tricks he
has learnt over the years that speed up the servicing.

Now after putting into practice what the author wrote I could go
and write my own book on how to service my car, right?

Right!

Why? Well the author can only copyright the content of his book
(words, pictures… etc) he cannot copyright the practice or
idea there in. This can be viewed in many different ways so if
your unsure it is always best to at least email the author
before taking any action with there material.

The short and sweet way of looking at this is your content no
matter what creative medium it falls under is automatically
copyrighted to you for the duration of your life. It can only be
broken if you decide to give your content away for free (you
must state that it is copyright free material) or you die and
nobody registers for the copyright to your material.

This leads us to Public Domain material…..

Before 1978 copyright only lasted 27 seven years. These days it
lasts the duration of the creators life. Therefor from the
minute you create your work it is automatically copyrighted to
you. It is still important to state this wherever you decide to
publish your material.

Public Domain material has no copyright and can be used in
anyway you see fit. Also unless you change it in someway it is
still Public Domain. So if you find a book that is in the Public
Domain and you start selling it on EBay, there is nothing
stopping the people who buy it from selling it themselves.
That’s why it is important to change the material. Add something
to it so it stands out or modernize the language so people can
understand the material better. Any changes copyright the “new”
book to you.

Anything published before 1928 falls under Public Domain. That
is of course unless someone got there first and changed the
material in some way. You have to watch out for that. It could
get you into trouble.

That’s the basics. For a more detailed insight into copyright go
to GOV.

Also depending on your country things maybe different so make
sure you know where you stand.

Personal Note……

Copyrighting your work is a good thing. You are the sole owner
of what you create and so you should be. There is a problem here
though. Once your material is published to the web, book,
magazine or even TV your leaving your material open to abuse.

This could be viewed as unfortunate but truthfully if it wasn’t
for copying other peoples HTML code I would have never learned
HTML. It was the same for Java Script and Graphic Design. Even
writing and game creation were learnt from copying others first.

It is also well known that internet marketers keep something
called a Swipe File on there computer. This is where they paste
items of interest they find on the web. It is a digital
scrapbook basically.

People learn by first copying and then creating. It is the
natural order of life to copy others. So if you want to be
strict about your copyright that’s fine. Just remember how you
learnt what you know before you draw a line in the sand:

Music Online Glossary – When Music, Music Careers and Pcs Collide

July 13th, 2009 at 12:42pm Under music copyright

The Internet has proven to be where music can be discovered, reviewed, discussed, shared, and purchased. Musicians know this and get online to upload their music and become a part of the world wide music machine process. They come on the Web at every age, at every experience level – musically and computer savvy. From youngsters starting out to seasoned musicians just learning where the computer on switch is, the workings of being on a computer can be overwhelming with everything else they have going on in their lives.

The Web also allows musicians access to music knowledge. Artists will come across difficult terminology and phrases that they do not understand. Compiled in the following mini glossary are music business, digital, organizations, record biz lingo, computer terms and basic need-to-know info. Hopefully, something listed here will help you navigate music online a bit easier, and so you know, this glossary is an excerpt of an extensive list found on Artistopia. A&R – Artist and Repertoire, aka talent scouts: a record company liaison whose duties may include to find, select and develop the music artist, band and/or songwriter.Affiliate Program – a way to earn income by linking your Web site to another site, depending on the action taken by the visitor. ASCAP – American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers which licenses and distributes royalties to it’s members’ copyrighted works. Bandwidth – has nothing to do with the size of a band but is a measure of the amount of information (data) that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second. Bitrate – The number of kilobits per second of data in your audio file. The bitrate you choose when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting MP3. The highest commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps and the higher the bitrate, the closer the encoding is to the original source of music. Blanket License – allows the user to perform any or all, in part or all, of the songs in the ASCAP repertory. What a warm and cozy license. Business Manager – an artist or band manager that specializes in the financial matters, including planning, investing, income, taxes, decisions and contracts. Buzz – to get people talking about a new artist, band, song or album, creating intense excitement and/or rumors. Clause – a chubby fellow in a red suit is Claus: in a record contract, there might be certain limitations, specifications, or modifications that stipulate the final outcome of that contract. Concert Promoter – with duties including ticketing, PR, marketing, and booking, this agency or agent responsibilities are for concert event promotion. Content – to make the Search Engines happy and have pages rank well in a search result, a good quantity of well written text aligning with the site’s keywords and theme updated regularly is a Webmaster’s steak and potatoes. Cookie – no, not chocolate chip, but a piece of software that records info about your visit to a Web site, then holds the info until the server requests it. Copyright – a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information, in our case artistic properties, the songs and sound recordings. Derivative Work – a new work based on or resulting from one or more preceding works. Digital Licensing – the use of copyrighted music compositions including downloads, on demand streaming, limited use downloads and CD burning. Distributor – the agency or agent that handles the sales and shipment of the music (records, CDs) to the marketplace or basically, gets the product to the consumers. Domain Name – a sign post on the Internet, it is a unique name that identifies an Internet site. DRM – Digital Rights Management is a technology that protects a piece of intellectual digital property such as a music, video, or text file. Encoding – the process of converting audio to or from a compressed format like MP3 or WMA. Exclusive Rights – under copyright law, the privileges that only a copyright owner has with respect to the copyrighted work. Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) – a file format for audio data compression that does not remove information from the audio stream, as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. Grammy Awards – an award ceremony for all genres presented by the Recording Academy for outstanding achievements in the recording industry: a gold megaphone for your mantel. Groupie – what’s the point of being an act without groupies? Overly enthusiastic fans with much love to offer. HTML – HyperText Markup Language, programming language for the world wide web. A web browser interprets the code written and displays it for a web page and web sites. Some very basic knowledge of HTML may help on some sites. Hook – a pirate: a music phrase, a passage, an idea – something (catchy and/or repetitive) that makes the song stand out and be more appealing and remembered. Hype – sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or product. Indie – an independent artist or band that desires to do-it-all-themselves and/or not affiliated with a larger record label. Intern – usually a college student job at a record label in a no or low paying position, more of an apprenticeship learning the ropes and gaining business experience. Internet Service Provider (ISP) – how and who connects your computer or network to the Internet, whether dialup, DSL, Cable, T1 or T3. Master Recording License – pertains to the recording of a performance itself, which are usually controlled by the record label. Mastering – the final stage and preparation in a recording before weapons of mass duplication, includes the consistency of audio levels and quality perfecting. Mechanical License – the use of copyrighted musical compositions for use on CDs, cassettes, record albums. Music Contracts – all the various bits of paperwork used in the music business, always read the “fine print” to the many contracts – recording, management, finders fee, general release contracts. When the contracts come in – time to get an Entertainment Attorney. Music Industry – all things pertaining and related to the business of music, dominated by the Big Four major labels: Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI. Music Publisher – provides services such as marketing, pitching and promoting works written by songwriters. Deals with the commercial exploitation of music catalogs and songs. Press Kit – aka media kit, a prepackaged set of promotional materials for a music artist or band for distribution including song samples, bio, historical info, photos and contact information. Producer – duties include: controlling the recording session, guidance of the artist(s), coaching, organizing, scheduling of production resources and budgets, as well as supervising the process of recording, mixing and mastering. Publishing Royalties – income paid to the writer of a song. RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America, the organization that represents the interests of record labels and producers in the USA. Ripping – means to take an audio CD and record it to a computer in an uncompressed file format (wav). Digital audio extraction from one media form to a hard disk. Roadie – the road crew that travels with a band on tour. These hard working individuals do everything but the performance, are technicians, do the set up and take down, security, bodyguards, pyrotechnics, and lighting. Sampling Rate – the number of samples taken per second when digitizing sound. The higher the number, the better the quality of the digital reproduction. SoundExchange – an independent, nonprofit performance rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties for recording artists and record labels when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable, satellite TV music, internet and satellite radio. Sound Recording – the copyright of the recording itself (what you hear, the entire production) as distinguished from the copyright of the song (words and music owned by the songwriter or publisher). Synchronization License – aka “synch” license, allows the user to reproduce a musical composition “in connection with” or “in timed relation with” a visual image, motion picture, video, advertising commercial – from the copyright owner of the music. Talent Agent – or booking agent, the representative of the music artist(s) that sets up the live performances. Vanity Label – a celebrity recording artist is given a label within a label and runs under the umbrella of the parent label.

Is It Permissible Under Copyright Law To Use A Font I Own On My Computer In A Painted Mural?

July 11th, 2009 at 10:24am Under copyright law

I know, odd question, but I can’t find anything to support what you CAN do with a font, since the sites I am finding about copyright law mostly talk about what you CAN’T do.

Would Getting Cd’s From The Library And Copying Them To Your Computer Be In Violation Of The Copyright Act?

July 9th, 2009 at 04:26pm Under copyright act

I was just wondering if you got a CD or a movie from the library and had it go to your media center if that would be in violation of any piracy or copyright laws.

Breaking The 3 Computer Laws Computer Misuse Act, Data Protection Act And Copyright Act?

July 9th, 2009 at 04:24am Under copyright act

what can happen if the three computer laws is broken computer misuse act, data protection act and copyright act?
and what can happen to a company if a serious breach of security happens?