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Offshoring in Germany
> Recent Article in Mckinsey – “How Germany can win from Offshoring” is the latest in a series of articles on benefits of Offshoring. Mckinsey believes Germany will not be able to gain as much as US fromoffshoring jobs to India or Eastern Europe. The key reasons beinginflexible Labor laws and negligible capital investments in…
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Future of Software
> How will the Software industry transform in 2005 and beyond? Information Week article on “Future of Software” points the direction. Componentization, Vendor consolidation in mature segments such as ERP, origin of next cycle of new applications , Web services fuelling the growth of utility based pricing models for software products etc. However, a few…
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802.11i
coming back to blog after quite a long period…… – The ratification of 802.11i is a big boost to the ubiquitious Wi-Fi networks. The fact that we dont have control over the packets once they leave the source is a major source of concern for secure coroporate transcations. 802.11i could help overcome this problem and…
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Intel Florence
> Intel wants to tell the world that its bread-n-butter PCs& Notebooks are in for massive changes in the coming years.. Intel’s concept notebook- “Florence” has 2 LCD displays, the smaller one lights up without having to boot up the system.. The challenge for any market leader is to find ways to expand the pie…
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Future of IT and more
A hot sunny weekend in bangalore..A few good movies are released.. Coldmountain, Ab tak Pachpan.. Dont know which one will be my first see.. But until then this my research for the day.. > This is probably my find of the month.. .. An excellent blog on IT, Core technology and outsourcing in general. Some…
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Conjoint Analysis
> Good article on Conjoint analysis. Put simply, Conjoint analysis answers 2 key questions. — How much of incremental use a consumer thinks he gets when a product attribute is enhanced or contained. — How much of relative importance does the consumer gives to each attribute from a mutually exclusive set.
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Jobs and Apple
its been a long holiday on the blog…either the work is hectic or i am lazy……. > Steve jobs is at it again.. He is trying to position Apple as a consumer electronics company. An exercise at which Apple miserably failed in 1980s bringing Apple to the brink of collapse. (read Pepsi to Apple.. John…
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90nm Fab Technology
> 90nm fab technology is finally here.. Intel’s Prescott has lot of new features enabled through smaller die sizes…such as higher L1.2.3. cache. But the 64 bit technology is still elusive from Intel’s fold. AMD’s headway in 64 bit technology is really commendable. That means chip wars are going to get hotter once AMD starts…