News.com has an in-depth special report on offshoring. 

U.S. needs reforms, not rhetoric

Government officials, business leaders and academics agree that the future of America's technology complex depends on education, professional training and research investment.

Companies guarding 'secret sauce'

Although many U.S. technology businesses are contracting or considering some form of foreign outsourcing, they are adamant about keeping intellectual property at home--for now.

How India is handling the backlash

In stark contrast to the heated reaction among many U.S. workers, the country that is most associated with offshoring is both subdued and puzzled by the opposition that has arisen.

Big Problem

  PC Mag columnist John Dvorak has a good piece on outsourcing realities...

It appears that Apple is downplaying vulnerabilities that security experts believe should be labeled as critical flaw that must be patched ASAP. A buffer overflow threat in the Apple file-sharing system could allow remote attacker to take over a system, but the company calls the fix a way "to improve the handling of long passwords." Shouldn't Apple be held to the same standard as Microsoft in disclosing flaws???

At WinHEC, Gates said a fond goodbye to the floppy disk. "For the first time, I can say that the floppy disk is dead." The future is USB flash, which, according to industry reports, is expected to ship in volume of between 67 million and 120 million drives in 2005. Microsoft is also promoting the drives as a method for simple configuration of wireless network security. The only problem is that they are too easy to lose.