A commentary from The San Jose Mercury News about the offshoring thing hints that the discussion is getting so heated you’d do well to wear oven mitts when reading the paper. It attempts to be fair and balanced (don’t sue me Fox) by acknowledging it is difficult with the competition from Asia, but, chin up, the Valley (and Austin and ...

New Zealand News – Technology – Computer modelling future of medicine Perhaps here’s a partial answer to Mike’s earlier post. Keep in mind the guy quoted is selling life science services for Sun Micro, but it’s an interesting vision about how computing companies see lowering the cost of drug development with awesome computing power. IBM and Hewlett-Packard also are developing ...

More Companies Are Routing Calls via Internet Jim’s right, it looks like VoIP is about here.

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 ...