Companies outsource mainly to cut cost. There is an imbalanced supply and demand of IT talent in top IT countries like the United States and it is driving many corporations to rely on offshore outsourcing as the solution. This cost-effective and quality pool of IT talent from offshore outsourcing services provides a much better value in terms of flexibility and scalability.
With dozens of areas around the world that are trying to grab a slice of the outsourcing business. Iloilo City, Philippines is popularly considered a Hot Spot for Outsourcing Companies. …

I have read this article about what skills should a IT person have, “30 Skills Every IT Person Needs” By Richard Casselberry, from cio.com. I got interested on the topic and started asking myself how I was doing as a IT professional. The article featured 30 skills, though some skills may only be for those in the league of IT Managers and Team Leaders.
In my part, I summarize the list of skills every IT person should have.

Be able to fix basic PC issues. These can be how to map …

A Medical Wikipedia?
Give me a break.. an online encyclopedia focused on explaining conditions, drugs, procedures, medial facilities and other medical topics written by physicians and PhDs?
Yeah.. It is true, the Medpedia Project launched a preview of the Medpedia site Wednesday with the support of medical heavyweights like Harvard Medical School, the Stanford School of Medicine, the University of Michigan Medial School and the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
These schools and other organizations have agreed to provide content to the project and to motivate their employees to sign …

I was surfing the net, when something struck me. How Big is the Web anyway?
Then I stumbled into this google blog which exactly answered my question. Everyone knew that the web was big, we just don’t know how big. Here are the facts from google:
The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search …

Firefox 3, Download Day, set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With hits that reached 8,002,530 downloads.
The Download Day promoters are giving away certificates for those people you help setting a Guinness World Record for the browser. I’ve got mine too:

Just a week after its release date, Firefox 3 has reached a whooping 17.3 million downloads.
As we all know, this popular browser’s successfully release last June 17th, Firefox 3 Download Day, already acquired 8 Million hits. A statistic currently being considered within the Guinness Book of Records.
New features in the web browser includes:

an All-Improved Add-on manager
Better Phishing and Malware protection
One-click Bookmarking and Bookmark Organizer, replaces the old Bookmark Manager.
Smart location bar that helps your browsing needs, more like a personal assistant.
An improved Download Manager, no need for those extra …

Bravo! But it wasn’t a walk in park for the people from Mozilla as it logged more than 8 million downloads of the latest version of their popular Web browser. After a shaky start that made the download process started around 3 p.m. ET — two hours later than originally planned — when Mozilla’s site wouldn’t work properly.
Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,349,074 times, more downloads than the company has ever had in one day, according to a Mozilla Web site tracking the browser’s first-day download process. Mozilla attempted to …

Probably alot of you knew about Mozilla’s big plan last June 17th to set a world record for downloads with the Firefox 3, the final release of the newest version of its popular Web browser. Mozilla may have been a bit unready for the onslaught of Web traffic the release generated; reports note that its servers have been overwhelmed since the release.
Though the big “Download Day” was set to begin at 1 p.m. ET, Mozilla’s Web site was down occasionally all morning. A Firefox spokeswoman said that the company …