Comment Example, please! (Score 1) 203
Can somebody give an example of that IBM score card, please? Is it just another Balanced Score Card system, just adapted to software development? The article misses to give that information.
Comment Stop outsourcing production, first (Score 4, Insightful) 625
Cry me a river! America's innovation lost its shine, because of outsourcing every single production bit overseas.
Most innovation steps are incremental improvements, not radical. Therefore, feedback from the market (customers) and from the production line is absolutely necessary. By outsourcing production to an external contractor, companies will first loose the feedback from production. Once the outsourcing contractors know the products, they will get to know the sales channels, too. In time companies loose their market, their ability to produce products and finally the ability to improve their products.
What we see today is the result of a short-sighted service-oriented economic principle. Wake up! Start "doing" things, again.
Submission + - A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts (ieee.org)
Anonymous Coward writes: "German researchers have demonstrated a car that can be driven with brain power alone [http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/braindriver-a-mind-controlled-car]. In a video, a driver wears a EEG head cap, which records brain activity. Software converts the neural signals into steering and acceleration commands, feeding the data into the car's drive-by-wire system. The brain-car interface, which the researchers call the "BrainDriver," is far from being commercially viable. But it could one day allow disabled and paralyzed people to gain more mobility. It could also, the researchers say, help people control autonomous vehicles, like a future driverless cab; just by thinking, passengers would tell the cab where to go."
Submission + - Intel CEO: Nokia should have gone with Android (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: "Intel's CEO Paul Otellini has said Nokia made a mistake choosing Windows Phone 7, and should have gone with Android — but admitted the money on offer may have been too much to ignore. "I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him," he said. "MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it." Otellini said some closed mobile platforms will "certainly survive," but said open systems will "win" in the end."
Comment Re:Not only tablets...AC-100 is also an epic failu (Score 1) 480
Yeah, the Toshiba firmware is politely spoken, unusable. If you want access to the Google market place plus CIFS access to your home servers plus Flash, etc., you seriously should consider to download a modified Android version and install it on your Folio. Like this one here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846199.
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code 305
An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies that don't comply. China is calling this an "obligatory accreditation system for IT security products." The plan is to go into effect next May, according to sources. "Products expected to be subject to the system are those equipped with secret coding, such as [a] contactless smart card system developed by Sony Corp., digital copiers, and computer servers. The Chinese government said it needs the source code to prevent computer viruses taking advantage of software vulnerabilities and to shut out hackers. However, this explanation is unlikely to satisfy concerns that disclosed information might be handed from the Chinese government to Chinese companies. There also are fears that Chinese intelligence services could exploit such confidential information by making it easier to break codes used in... digital devices."
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