Disruptive Technology in the Video Game Industry

When one hears the term Video game industry behemoths like Microsoft Sony and Nintendo come up.  Three of the most recgonised and used platform manufacturers.  That model is currently be challenged.  A small company called "OnLive  Inc." is challenging the decades old industry method of delivery.  Traditionally, a user would purchase the proprietary hardware and seperately purchase software.  This involves visiting retail stores or (more recently) ordering these pieces online.  OnLive takes inspirations from the music and video indsutry and is proposing to eliminate the distribution system all together.  This has the potential to drastically reduce costs if software is all delivered online.  Furthermore, video rendering will be done in a cloud sourced manner meaning that any upgrades will be done at a centralized system and be immediately availble to all users.  Customers save by purchasing a $99 controler that provides access to the online library and they also save on distribution costs for titles.  Upgrades to platforms (think xbox vs xbox 360) are seemless and cost free.  It's worked for netflix and itunes and I think in the next five years we'll see the video game industry undergo a similar "e-transformation" to cloud sourced solutions.

Walmart penetrating ecommerce

Walmart is usually known for it's massive inventories of inexpensive products with little to no customer support. They've taken it just one more step further by promoting its ebusiness. They are competing against e-giants such as amazon.com. They are eliminating shipping from 60,000 items. The interesting thing is that the majority of these items are electronics.
"Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is clearly going for the jugular in the holiday retailing fight. It announced Thursday that it will offer free shipping on nearly 60,000 online items — with no minimum purchase requirement." Walmart
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India's Outsourcing industry uses U.S. government mandates for funding

I found a Wall Street Journal article discussing how India's outsourcing the new government mandate that illuminated a trend for a new source of outsourcing.  The U.S. is moving to electronic medical records.  The previous method of patient history was as you all know the "patient chart" literally a few pieces of paper in a folder.  It is time to update those to easily transferable electronic records.  India believes much of this workload will be outsourced due to the laborious task involved.  Moreover, the U.S. Government has mandated this change and will actually give hospitals money to accomplish it.  So, if you follow the flow of cash, the U.S. Government could be seen as sponsoring India's outsourcing industry.  Should this work be done in the U.S?  How do you feel about this?