Internets of Interest: 2nd Feb
February 2, 2009 by bookmarks · Leave a Comment
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 2nd Feb:
- Outsourcing suddenly less popular • Channel Register — Would you give your services to a possibly corrupt company in India ? Want time to check it out ? Yeah, I still reckon outsourcing is over and the return of services will start soon. (and outsourcing will still be used for certain things, just not _everything_)
- Humyo cloud disappears from afternoon sky • The Register — Cloud Storage takes a hit this time.
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- DealExtreme: $3.32 Reusable Double Eyelid Makers (4-Maker Pack) — Apparently fashion conscious Asians would love to have “double eyelids” like most European eyes do. You have probably never even thought about it. Here is where you can buy some clip-on double eyelids maker.
Fashion, are there no depths of stupidity that you will not plumb.
- DVICE: First look: NovelQuest’s insane $40k Emperor gaming chair in the flesh — What is not love about this chair. I reckon that once you bring down that hood with the screens you could really get some work done!!!
- Newer Tech punts toaster drive dock • The Register — I use this idea (not this product) for
- Lenovo erects Atom tower • The Register — Lenovo is releasing desktops and servers using the cheaper and low power Atom CPU. Wanna bet that Intel is pissed ? Selling lots of cheap computers with cheap CPU’s isn’t good for business because the profit is with the big iron. Ahhhh, the times are a changing!
- EMP’s CCIE Blog — Eric M. Phillips (recently got his number!) has been posting his scenarios that he used to memorise certain aspects of technology. Mendicants should check out his study technique as well as his excellent practice questions.
- Intel dubs 2009 ‘The Year of 10Gb Ethernet’ • The Register — Oh yeah, sure. “The year of
- Russian hairdresser turns stickup merchant into sex slave • The Register — So funny in so many ways. Comedians will be using this for laughs!
- Facebook Users Get Worse Grades in College | LiveScience — This post talks about research into Facebook users at American Colleges who get significantly lower grades, on average, than others. Two sides to this I think — one is that low achievers or people who are unable to focus, will find something, anything that distracts them. What is invidious about Facebook is the degree you can fool yourself that you are doing something useful. For example, sitting in a bar from two in the afternoon
- PC World cuts off Capita call centre contract • Channel Register — PC World is insourcing it’s call centre, thus terminating it’s outsourced call centre. It looks like all staff will transfer back to PC World. bar a few middle managers. I think we will see a lot more insourcing happen as the five year contracts come to an end.
1)The stock market is no longer looking at Revenue Per Employee as a performance measure so extra headcount doesn’t matter.
2) insourcing is typically cheaper
3) companies want to change their postion in the market and outsourcing stops business change.Tell me I’m wrong ?
- (mt) Media Temple »
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