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The federal Defense Intelligence Agency has issued a request for proposal for Defense Department and other federal IT contracts that could total $6.6 billion over five years, reports InformationWe... More >
Tucson-based CDEX Inc. , which makes devices to detect and identify drugs, is cutting all employee salaries as it tries to cope with the recession, reports the Arizona Daily Star . The compa... More >
Data center outsourcing is on the rise, according to Computer Economics. OK, the number of companies doing it has increased just 3 percentage points, from 32 percent to 35 percent, over its... More >
The CompTIA Educational Foundation will be offering more telecommunications training thanks to the donation of 100 single-user licenses for the LIDO Telecommunications Essentials eLearning series . ... More >
Departing Yahoo Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen will get $1.8 million in severance and up to a year in company-paid medical insurance when he leaves, reports The Associated Press in a st... More >
IT hiring declined for a fifth month in April, according to the TechServe Alliance, which analyzes federal labor data on IT-related occupations. IT employment hit a peak last November at 4.058 millio... More >
A worldwide poll of CEOs found one-third said outsourcing offers less value than it did five years ago, reports The Economic Times . About 300 CEOs from 23 industries and 24 countries took... More >
IBM has just landed two big outsourcing projects. Big Blue will provide accounting and payroll services as part of a seven-year, $11.3 million contract with Lam Research Corp. It's a renewal ... More >
Indian outsourcer Infosys Technologies plans to hire 1,000 employees in the United States in the next 12 to 18 months as part of its expansion plans in North America, reports domain-b.com . ... More >
Contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says the worst of the economic slump is over and has asked hundreds of employees laid off in the past six months to come back to work , rep... More >
Though Asians make up more than a third of the work force at some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies, Asians are far less likely to serve as board members or corporate officers of those com... More >
With hedge funds under pressure for outside verification, Citi has launched a middle-office outsourcing service . It includes services such as daily reconciliation, trade processing, collater... More >
Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has signed an agreement with MTV Networks to develop its digital platform, reports a Dow Jones story in The Wall Street Journal. Terms of the deal were not disc... More >
Forget communication skills, personal magnetisim or enthusiasm. The best CEOs are, well, just dull. They're organized, efficient, hardworking, detail-oriented -- and colorless. Based on a not-... More >
In contrast to a CIO.com article on "speed sourcing," a separate article warns that companies make their biggest mistakes with outsourcing when they move too fast. It lists eight items o... More >
Much has been written about Apple's apparent lack of a succession plan , but less so for Cisco. The company's 59-year-old CEO John Chambers told investors Monday he plans to stay with the company... More >
Google is tackling its staffing issues like Google does: with an algorithm, reports The Wall Street Journal . No longer the giddy boom atmosphere with a soaring stock price, the company want... More >
Can you get a new outsourcing vendor lined up and signed up in as little as six weeks? This CIO.com article outlines what outsourcing consultancy EquaTerra calls "speed sourcing" : No lengthy sele... More >
Those same five W's that journalism students study -- who, what, when, where and why -- are good questions for business executives to answer for themselves when considering outsourcing, according t... More >
Too much experience can be hurting IT pros in the job market, according to online career resource Beyond.com . It listed IT, along with health/medical and sales, as the top three industries a... More >
Hard drive maker Seagate Technology said it will cut 1,100 jobs globally in an attempt to make the company profitable by 2010, reports CNNMoney.com . The company had already cut its labor ... More >
How well do your outsourcing contracts protect you? The economy, political instability and admissions of fraud have made the question more important than ever, according to a CIO.com article. &nb... More >
Dallas-based outsourcing company Affiliated Computer Services plans to eventually have half its work force located outside the United States , reports InformationWeek . It gave no timetable ... More >
Sony Ericsson announced Friday it will lay off about 400 people in Lund, Sweden, including 160 employees and 250 consultants, reports PCWorld.com . It has about 4,000 employees in the Swedi... More >
ZDNet 's Larry Dignan digs into the latest Labor Department report, the one that put the national unemployment rate at 8.9 percent, and finds that IT consultants generally aren't hurting for work . ... More >
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently called jobs for U.S. workers one of her "top obligations," adding that the agency is stepping up efforts to weed out fraud in ... More >
Payroll vendor SurePayroll says more small businesses are using independent contractors in this economic downturn, reports eWEEK . Use of independent contractors reached a peak in April, th... More >
Microsoft announced in January it would lay off "up to 5,000" people, but initially only 1,400 got pink slips. On Tuesday, however, CEO Steve Ballmer issued a memo initiating the "second phas... More >
Microsoft has set up an incident-management team to deal with the possibility that swine flu could affect its operations, reports seattlepi.com . (By the way, the term "swine flu" increasingly is ... More >
Three-quarters of companies recently polled by consulting firm Grant Thornton reported they are changing or plan to change their outsourcing arrangements to bring work closer to home, reports Worl... More >
India's Serious Fraud Investigation Office is looking for $100 million from Satyam Computer Services that seems to have gone up in smoke. Of $150 million raised through American depositary sha... More >
While our own bloggers have been offering advice on planning for telecommuting and business continuity should the swine flu outbreak reach the pandemic level, according to this Computerworld art... More >
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