Patent filing describes IBM's new offshoring math
IBM last week filed a patent application for an offshore outsourcing methodology that's intended to help companies minimize the financial risks associated with sending work overseas.
Five trends that challenge technology offshoring
Having your job get shipped overseas sucks and having it shipped away in a cruddy economy is a double whammy, but calling for boycotts or trying to legislate job security is not going to work. Tech vendors will put jobs where they can get an acceptable (note, not necessarily the best) work done at the lowest rate. All that said, I think there are five trends that suggest those big outsourcing waves will wane.
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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