Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Howling at the moon

by alec on May 29, 2007

 It was a near full moon tonight, so after a quick dip in the pool I grabbed my tripod and camera and shot a few pictures of the moon with my long lens.  On the automatic settings on the D50, it just produced an overexposed white disc, but after stopping the camera down 5 (!) I managed to capture some detail.  This photograph is a cropped image taken with a 300mm lens at full extension.

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Jajah has scored again, this time adding Deutsche Telekom as an investor and customer.  IDC analyst Will Stofega sees Deutsche Telekom's move as a strategic way to gain access to innovative new technologies, saying:

"At the end of the day these upstarts aren't going to go out and build new networks," he said. "Meanwhile, the telcos need help from companies like Jajah on the innovation side."

It's intriguing to contrast Deutsche Telekom's move to incorporate services from Jajah, with Orange's service offerings including VoIP on WiFi.  Two different approaches, perhaps trying to solve two different albeit similar problems.  It seems Jajah is also looking at VoWiFi solutions, however.  Check out this blog entry from last week showing Jajah on the T-Mobile Wing.

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Does it make sense to offshore to India?

May 29, 2007

Infoworld published a piece this morning about how the economics of offshoring to India are becoming less enticing than they used to be.  Particularly interesting were Riya CEO Munjal Shah's comments. Offshoring to India has been a good choice for Silicon Valley companies for years, because Silicon Valley wages have always been exceedingly high.  But [...]

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