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In a Country not so far, far away

Everyone working in any IT market with a serious enough  job knows for a fact that the all time champion of outsourcing is by all means the exotic sub continent of India. India has the great advantage, besides the currency exchange differences between USD and Rupiahs, that they have a this huge population of well trained, English speaking people (its entire population is around 900+ million that's 9 times Mexico's ). This makes them the worlds largest talent pool (second after China) for all USA based operations. India also embraces a self improving and study culture that most people adhere to. They also are perceived as a more westernized culture compared to Korea or China which is a bonus for any USA organization outsourcing operations with them because that turns communication flow smoother. USA businesses prefer them for all those reasons and this preference is the cause of the great economic growth they have been experiencing in the last 2 decades. Moving operations ...

Another nail in the Flash's coffin - The rise of HTML5 Games

You'd probably already heard about Game Closure , but if you haven't this is what you been missing... Game Closure is an independent student start-up company that developed a pretty interesting and amazingly robust Javascript/HTML5 game SDK. The SDK can be used to create games not only for web browsers (Facebook games) but they can be deployed also to iOS and Android devices . The SDK offers client/server real-time communication so this opens the possibility of massive multiplayer capabilities. They have been recently in the spotlight turmoil since they presented Pop Star Defense , the first game to run in all mentioned platforms which they presented on Google I/O last summer. The interesting thing here is that this endeavor usually required up to 6 months to accomplish by traditional means to any Game Developer company regardless of their size, but it only took 5 weeks to the guys on Game Closure so everyone is looking at them with dollar signs on their eyes sinc...