Corporate America’s Silent Partnet: India – The shift of skilled work to India is becoming one of Corporate America’s worst-kept secrets. Almost daily, India’s newspapers carry items on new plans by U.S. software, finance, or pharmaceutical companies to open or expand call centers and research labs. Officials from Bombay to Bangalore point to splashy new ...
p. “(extlink)Philip Greenspun’s Weblog”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ discusses the shock that some “(extlink)MIT”:http://www.mit.edu students at a presentation about the implementation of the “(extlink)OpenCourseWare”:http://ocw.mit.edu project, where it was revealed that much of the programming for the project was performed in India.
p. Britain’s Times ran a “(extlink)story”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-8088-882668,00.html where they had a PC user and a Mac user switch for a week and then write about their experience. Overall, the article seems well written, with the overall conclusion that the Mac has an edge, but it’s probably not enough of one to justify switching from a PC ...
Apple updated their iCal and iSync software, finally replacing the floating window for event properties with a drawer and fixing the method for entering appointments that span multiple days. In addition, “phpiCalendar”:http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke seems to be progressing quickly, and is now almost at the level of Apple’s own “.Mac”:http://www.mac.com calendar publishing software. The latest .94 builds ...
In Cem Kaner’s blog: Software Customer Bill of Rights Cem Kaner discusses issues related to increasingly restrictive end user licensing agreements for various software, and how they are diverging from commonly accepted fair use rights for both software and other copyrighted works. Finally, he addresses issues of embedded software in items like automobiles, medical devices, ...
Businessweek on Indian Outsourcing
Dec
27
2003
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