Monthly Archives May 2007

New Technology: Microsoft Surface

I’m sure you have see the new technology from Microsoft called ‘Microsoft Surface’. This is the coolest innovative product to come out from Microsoft after Google and Apple started hogging the news with their innovations.
Microsoft Surface uses the HCI technology called multi-touch first popularised by Apple on its iPhone. Even though Apple beat them to [...]

Outsourcing Engineering Research

I keep an eye out for real world stories on outsourcing new product development especially research and prototyping of new technologies and concepts.
I came across this interesting article by Steve Mezak, an outsourcing consultant titled How to Outsource Research Needed to Create Software– And Get it Right.
Sometimes you know exactly what you want your software [...]

10 tips on dealing with offshore developers

As a manager at an offshore services provider, one of the key aspects of my job is managing expectations of clients. Especially those who are new to offshore outsourcing.
Here is a post from Yakov Fain listing ten practical tips for the rookie manager. He has some more interesting posts at this site.Link >>