We are living in a world of wireless and wired networks that bring applications, information and entertainment to individuals and connect them in radically evolving ways. Products and technologies such as smart phones, iPods, STBs, IPTV, home networking, RFID, 3G and WiFi are making the vision of pervasive computing more possible in the real world. [...]
Vivek Wadhwa, in a recent Business Week article titled “Why Small Tech Companies Aren’t Outsourcing“, points out that contrary to what you might think, only 15% of the total outsourcing is done by technology companies. Being in the Silicon Valley this is a bit hard to digest knowing that most of the product companies around [...]
Couple of recent deals announced, one I mentioned earlier by Nokia Siemens and another by Rockwell Collins to open an outsourced offshore design center illustrate the growth in R&D outsourcing.
The current (June 2007) issues of R&D Magazine has a cover story (R&D Outsourcing Becomes More Strategic) that describes the result of a May 2007 survey [...]