Software Outsourcing does not take place in India, Europe and the States only, it also takes place in Asia between Japan and China with announcements resulting in China being Japan’s largest Software Outsourcing location. This is news to be pleased with in Japan and it can only help their relationship go from strength to strength.
From Japan’s External Trade Organization Mine Shentaro said, “China accounted for more than 60 percent of Japan’s outsourced software trade in 2006 and has become the country’s biggest software outsourcing base,” the organization is based in Dalian, northeast China’s Liaoning Province.
Outsourcing Software can only help in your Lean Management and Lean Software processes but it is key to keep you key capabilities in-house.

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Testing in Software is to strengthen with the computer/software industry leader IBM with the acquirement of Green Hat a leader in the service of software testing. This is great news for IBM and of course Green Hat and its employees that now will be linked to the software giant. A key strength in Green Hat is prior to deployment of software application capabilities are tested in the Cloud.
The IBM Rational General Manager said, “This acquisition extends IBM’s leadership”, Kristof Kloeckner carried on saying, “in driving business agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk”.
Could this be another exampple of Lean Management.

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The Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon, the much look forward to challenge to iPad, became available in the U.S. on Monday, one day ahead of schedule. The new Kindle is approximately half the size and at $199 more than the price of iPad which retails for $499. The new Fire is much more than an e-book reader; it connects to the Web, streams movies and TV, displays comic books and supports a multitude of apps, which includes ones for Hulu and Netflix, plus emailing and game playing.

Users wont be able to use cellular networks on the Fire has they have been able to do on some of the monochrome Kindle models, but they will be able to accesses the Internet through Wi-Fi.

Barnes & Noble Inc.’s $249 Nook Tablet goes on sale Friday, also a direct competitor in time for the Christmas market, but still higher in price at $249. In creating a challenge to the iPad, Amazon.com Inc. is building on the expectation of succeeding where other businesses have been unsuccessful because the Fire is designed to easily tap into the company’s enormous storehouse of media content. Amazon sells over 1 million e-books, 100,000 movies and television shows, and 17 million songs.

Amazon has not publicised the number of Kindles it has sold, but CEO Jeff Bezos has said that advance orders for the Fire are so high that Amazon is manufacturing “millions more” than first anticipated. Amazon has more Kindle models in the pipeline; the Kindle Touch retailing for $99, which has a monochrome, touch-sensitive screen and is designed only for reading, is available from Tuesday, six days earlier than expected.

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