{"id":342,"date":"2005-10-18T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=342"},"modified":"2005-10-23T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T15:17:59","slug":"rd-shopping-on-the-mezzanine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;D Shopping On The Mezzanine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been offline on vacation for most of the past week I&#8217;m amazed at how much news I miss. And of course being out of sync with the latest in what&#8217;s going on makes tuning in more difficult. However, maybe being a little out of sync is a good thing, since it got me to read something I might not have made time to read. BusinessWeek has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_43\/b3956086.htm?chan=gb\">article<\/a> on Chinese handset design corporation TechFaith. It&#8217;s not long and worth the read. I have to wonder if there&#8217;s room for a mid-position R&#038;D player and consequently whether TechFaith will eventually become a larger corporation (ala Palm or RIM), perhaps shrink (as indicated by the downward valuation of their stock) to be more of a niche market player, or somehow hold the middle ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been offline on vacation for most of the past week I&#8217;m amazed at how much news I miss. And of course being out of sync with the latest in what&#8217;s going on makes tuning in more difficult. However, maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}