Best Software-Outsourcing
The following are selected blog posts from bloggers worldwide by Wilson Ng, a Philippine blogger which he thinks represents the most interesting posts on the subject. This is updated several times per week.
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EsprintNews » 7 Overrated Technologies and Their Underrated Low-Tech Alts
Technology rocks, and improving upon what we have is a boon for fighting climate change in a lot of ways. But sometimes green gadgets get more attention than the totally effective non-tech solutions to problems in our lives, because, well, non-tech solutions are boring. The latest and greatest is… … [Link]
EsprintNews » 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, yet so many… … [Link]
EsprintNews » End of a snarky era: Gawker shuts down Valleywag
The New York-based blog network will turn its Silicon Valley title into a column on Gawker.com written by current Valleywag editor Owen Thomas. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Sun restructures, lays off up to 6,000
Company will realign its software organization into new business groups with a focus on open source and new market sectors. … [Link]
EsprintNews » CNET News Daily Podcast: Tech innovations that won big
From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators for creating solutions for developing countries. … [Link]
EsprintNews » SAP and Microsoft, Watch Your Back
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EsprintNews » A Leap into Business School
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EsprintNews » Building a Better Twitter
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EsprintNews » What's Most Pressing for Programmers?
A Microsoft Professional Developers Conference panel on the future of programming languages looks at what is on programmers' minds. The PDC panel of experts debates what's best for programmers and languages. - LOS ANGELES What are some of the most pressing issues facing developers today, and… … [Link]
EsprintNews » Sun clarifies its open-source model
Sun Microsystems is fast becoming a leader in open-source business models. Let's hope the revenue follows. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Open-source companies crashing en masse? Puh-lease!
One analyst thinks open-source companies are on the decline, but he's got his facts wrong. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Dethroning Microsoft
Hewlett-Packard announces a new Linux-based laptop while tech execs fret over the power of the iPhone - signs that Microsoft's days as the king of software are over. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Cisco looks into the abyss
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EsprintNews » Asustek: $200 Eee PC coming in 2009
The Netbook market expects the price of its most visible notebook to drop even further next year. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Music Social Network Imeem In Play Hires Bank Laying Off 25 Percent
Online music-focused social network Imeem is on the block according to our sources and has hired investment banker Montgomery and Co. to lead the sale. Coincidentally we have also learned that the company is announcing some layoffs internally todayas much as 25 percent of its around 80-strong… … [Link]
EsprintNews » Twitter The Next Google? No The Next Netscape
Twitter is definitely onto something Dave Winer argues. Its also trying to take on way too much and boil the ocean. If it continues down this path the big boys will soon stomp it out of existenceFred Wilson in his famous answer compared Twitter to Google when it was a pre-revenue startup. A nice… … [Link]
EsprintNews » Yahoo Launching App Platform Next Week — A Year Late YHOO
As a part of its open strategy Yahoo YHOO will launch its app platform next week in hopes of creating a social dimension opening itself to third-parties and rewiring Yahoo from top to bottom reports VentureBeat which attended a press briefing on the news.Yahoo probably also used the phrase… … [Link]
EsprintNews » How 4 tech giants have fared
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EsprintNews » Microsoft exec: Challenging times play to our strengths
Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop says the software giant is trying to get the message out that it can help its customers save money in tough times. … [Link]
EsprintNews » Missing girl's father finds help through Twitter
Message regarding man's missing teenage daughter is spreading across the service at an extremely rapid rate. … [Link]
