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Monthly Archives March 2009

Internet of Things: When will it be a business reality?

Padmasree Warrior, the CTO of Cisco, tweeted this question pointing to this article on the Business Opportunity for the Internet of Things. Took the liberty to post this here. I thought this question is a good followup to couple of posts I have made on IoT related technologies here (Pervasive Computing) and here (Near Field [...]

Posted 27 March 2009 † Subhash Nair § Offshore Outsourcing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Multicore chips: Need for software re-engineering?

I was briefly at the Multicore Expo last week and there was some talk about programming effectively for multicore chipsets. However most of the vendors exhibiting seemed to shrug it off as a non-issue. Their explanation being that their OS or platform would handle the scheduling processes and utilization of cores from existing software as-is [...]

Posted 25 March 2009 † Subhash Nair § Embedded Systems § Industry Reports § Offshore Outsourcing § Product Development ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Top 10 Outsourced Product Development Companies: 2009

Global Services and neoIT, through their Global Services 100 Study, recently announced the top outsourced product development service providers for 2009. Symphony Services was named the Best Performer. The full report is available at http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Content/general200903036094.asp. Have you worked with any of these firms? What is your experience and recommendations when it comes to outsourcing product [...]

Posted 16 March 2009 † Subhash Nair § Industry Reports § Outsourcing § Product Development ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,