Hot Labor Day
The debate about the benefit vs. problems of offshoring IT continues. A report from a consultant at Deloitte Consulting says offshoring is good because it will free dollars up for R&D and that will result in better jobs overall. And the President apparently made a remark during Labor Day to the effect that offshoring has something to do with not keeping skills up-to-date which brought a sharp response from an IT professional through InformationWeek. It’s interesting to see the reaction of people who seemed unconcerned about these globalism issues until their profession felt the impact of the phenom.
Getting up to speed
There seems to be a way to glimpse the future for the US when it adopts broadband by looking at Korea. What strikes me is that broadband is as transformative socially as the slowpoke modem Net has been. When broadband dominates it’s going to be necessary to re-think online communication with constituents.
'Texting' is as good as calling for Filipinos
On the last FIC call, I recounted how my wife and I landed in Manila in January 2001, one day after the ouster of President Estrada – he was ousted by text messaging!! Text messaging is known as ‘texting’ or SMS (short message service). Texts are short messages sent by computer or cell phone to another cell phone.
Philippines is ‘Texting” capital of the world:
According to Anthony Ian Cruz, a spokesman for TXTPower (a consumer advocacy group), the Philippines, which has a population of almost 80 million, has 14 million to 16 million mobile phone users generating 150 million to 200 million text messages a day – one of the largest volumes in the world.
You can now send messages to Honda Cars Philippines via SMS text, such as to schedule a service appt. or check on your car’s repair.
‘Texting’ is as good as calling for Filipinos
How cell phones are changing our social habits
Here is yet another article on how cell phones are changing our social habits – some workplace effects are noted as well (two of them I have observed).
The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time:
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