Category Archives: Research & Development

Global product engineering to India grows 40% in last 3 years

The recent report by Booz & Company with Nasscom shows continued growth in global engineering predominantly to India. Overall spending on ER&D increased 12% from $980 billion in 2008 to $1.1 trillion in 2009 and is expected to expand to $1.4 trillion by 2020. India, a pioneer and leader in the global sourcing industry, remains [...]

Software Engineering in Today’s Cars

One of my domain focus areas from an engineering services perspective is auto infotainment and telematics technologies. Recently, I came across an interesting article on IEEE Spectrum Online titled This Car Runs on Code. It gives a very good perspective on the amount of software and complexities associated with engineering today’s leading cars. It takes [...]

Talk to the NFC Guru

Follow-on to the previous NFC topic, Forum Nokia kicked-off a Talk-to-the-Guru session with Gerald Madlmayr, a researcher at the NFC Research Lab in Hagenberg where you can post any questions on NFC technology and developing NFC applications. Link: http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gerald-madlmayrs-forum-nokia-blog/2009/02/12/talk-to-the-guru-kick-off