11 January - Five Stories You Need to Read

InfoWorld reports that “[o]ffshoring of software development by software companies is not costing Americans jobs, according to a report being announced Thursday by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).”

ZDNet has an interesting article on the downside risks of Google as a public service.

In an unrelated story, ZDNet reprints a blog post from Mark Chandler, Cisco’s Senior VP and General Counsel, in which Chandler explains that Cisco’s law suit with Apple over the iPhone trademark “is not a suit against Apple’s innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone”.  Rather, it “is about Cisco's obligation to protect its trademark in the face of a willful violation”.

According to the SFGate, “[a]ll-expense-paid trips are being offered [by the nonprofit Internet Society] to help ensure that technologists in developing countries have a say in shaping the Internet's architecture for years to come.”

FT.com reports that “[a]s the initial glow around Apple's iPhone fades, some analysts are questioning whether the new-fangled mobile phone, music player and web-browsing device represents a truly existential threat to smart-phone makers.”