Services: While China and Russia are experiencing an influx in outsourcing work, India shows no signs of letting up. But to reach $60 billion in outsourcing exports by 2010, India will have to hurdle some obstacles, not the least of which is a potential manpower shortage. From the feature well: Ever been trapped inside a browser? Oliver Rist has. And he spent a week in there, just to gauge the feasibility of living with only Web 2.0 apps — and without using Microsoft Office. The matter was of survival and, short of that, to determine how close we really are to replacing desktop with Web-based applications. Think you could endure a whole week of Internet Office? Talkback here, or via the comments function below. Best of the blogs: While the term ‘Grid’ currently means many things to different IT folks, one product has emerged that may prove itself to be a litmus test for SMB grids: RevStor’s SWARMS. This pre-beta number builds a turnkey data grid on operating systems and commodity hardware. The Gripe Line: Ed Foster wonders whether a manufacturer is responsible under warranty when an LCD cracks. Apparently, Apple says it’s not. Are iPod LCDs made to be broken? The news beat: Mozilla is looking into a new flaw in Firefox. Palo, Alto, California puts out an RFP for a partner to create a fiber-to-the-home network. And Microsoft buys DesktopStandard to add the acquired policy, registry and update software to its own Group Policy Management Console. Technology Industry