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December 2005 - Posts

• It had to happen eventually..

  India is expected to face a shortfall of 500,000 IT workers by 2010 , according to a McKinsey report. Hmm, maybe they can outsource some of their work to the US and Western Europe? :-) Then again, 500,000 people is several percent of the entire population Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:53 PM by martinw | 0 Comments

• A small victory in the fight against "patent ambushes"

  It's a small step , but a step in the right direction: European Commissioner for Competition, former member of the Dutch parliament Neelie Kroes , has apparently ordered the members of an influential standards body, ETSI , to make sure that its standards Read More... Posted Monday, December 12, 2005 7:59 PM by martinw | 0 Comments