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When technology costs more than human

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, December 11 2009 03:36 AM

Movie director James Cameron waited 15 years for technology to catch up before it was sufficiently advanced for him to create the much-anticipated upcoming film, Avatar.

To be released in 2D and 3D, the production is marketed as a breakthrough in moviemaking technique, where Cameron was able to work with a virtual camera and watch directly on a monitor how..... Read more ť

Do we need more delivery centers?

Posted in Sourcing Insight by Michael Rehkopf on Monday, December 07 2009 04:18 PM

As I wrote a while back in about "racing to subsidies", there certainly is an increased focus by governments to attract delivery centers to their region. To do that, many are offering increased subsidies and incentives to boost their appeal to service providers.

However, are we creating an over-capacity problem similar to that seen in other industries?

On the one hand, service..... Read more ť

Tags: Professional Services, service provider, incentive

Will technology divide us further?

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, December 04 2009 02:41 AM

So I finally watched 2012 over the weekend, but the film left me feeling extremely agitated.

The possibility that the world may meet its watery end in three years didn't bother me. Rather, what vexed me was the process by which the human specimen was salvaged.

When it was determined that the human race was indeed facing possible extinction due to..... Read more ť

Tags: Embryo, Defect, Movie, U.S. Government, India

Buying a projector? Try an LED TV instead

Posted in Mister Tech by Lee Lup Yuen on Monday, November 30 2009 08:21 PM

If you're thinking of buying a new projector for your office meeting room, why not consider getting an LED TV instead. LED TVs are similar to LCD TVs except that LED TVs use LEDs for backlighting the LCD panel, instead of using fluorescent lamps for backlighting. The newer LED TVs based on edge-LED lighting are slimmer (about an..... Read more ť

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Colors, LCD, LCD TV, LED TV

Lift-and-shift: Resurgence or flame-out

Posted in Sourcing Insight by Michael Rehkopf on Monday, November 30 2009 12:42 PM

Lift-and-shift has been the backbone of many of the outsource solutions for a number of years.

This allowed many buyers to achieve significant cost savings by taking advantage of labor arbitrage. It also led to the creation of networks of offshore centers by service providers as they sought to satisfy the needs of their customers through both scale as..... Read more ť

Tags: Buyer, Lift-and-shift, Outsource, financial crisis, arbitrage

Time to map out

Posted in The Pinoy Post by Melvin G. Calimag on Sunday, November 29 2009 10:41 PM

Before anything else, let me devote a few words to the fallen journalists and other victims of the brutal massacre that occurred last week in the southern province of Maguindanao. It's the most atrocious crime I've ever seen in the Philippines--a big black eye that overshadowed the recent victories of Filipinos Manny Pacquiao (unprecedented 7th title in 7th weight division)..... Read more ť

Tags: Philippines, GPS, broadcast company, High Tech Computer Corp., Nevada

Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon

Posted in BCP Confidential by Nathaniel Forbes on Wednesday, November 25 2009 02:41 PM

Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't be able to write off the cost of our tickets as a professional development expense.

Spoiler: In the movie, China saves the human race, and all the American political leaders are black people. Selected..... Read more ť

Tags: moon recovery site, moon BCP, water on the moon, moon disaster recovery, 2012

Amendments to empower Copyright Tribunal

Posted in Tech Legal by Bryan Tan on Monday, November 23 2009 08:39 AM

As a lawyer, I often inform my clients about the need to clear licenses with the various licensing societies whenever they use works belonging to other parties. This is especially familiar to those in the entertainment industry, for example, a singer who wants to re-record a version of a song written by someone else.

The same affects the technology industry--say,..... Read more ť

Tags: copyright, tribunal, mp3, Collection Society, Internet radio

Don't CC me, I'll CC you

Posted in By The Way by Eileen Yu on Friday, November 20 2009 03:13 AM

Carbon paper fascinated me when I was younger. Write once, get two copies. What a great invention and work tool, I thought.

Then came e-mail, and making carbon copies of important notes and messages got even easier. So effortless, in fact, that CC has become one of the most abused office tools today.

There've been one too many times when I've..... Read more ť

Tags: Carbon, ROI, CC, business process, job

M'sian broadband wars heat up

Posted in Malaysia Explorer by Edwin Yapp on Tuesday, November 17 2009 12:38 PM

Consumer broadband service in Malaysia has been around for almost 10 years now, but it wasn't until 2005/2006 that the stakes of the broadband service in Malaysia were increased.

Until then, the only broadband service that consumers could count on was provided by state-owned incumbent, Telekom Malaysia (TM). But in 2005, wireless players Celcom and Maxis Communications upped the ante by..... Read more ť

Tags: 3G, wireless service, EDGE, P1, Malaysia