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Unemployment in Silicon Valley has reached 11.8 percent, topping California's 11.6 percent and the national rate of 9.7 percent, with unemployment especially acute in areas such as semiconductor manu... More >
A Computerworld article looks at data on U.S. IT work being sent offshore and says Indian outsourcing companies are juggling their business models to keep up with changes in U.S. law. Acco... More >
Ten-year outsourcing deals are out, Mike Lafford, group vice president at Gartner, told a group of CIOs in Sydney . He says the base term is three to five years with possible extension clauses of on... More >
Indian outsourcing company Infosys on Friday will become the first private company to get security protection from the country's Central Industrial Security Force, reports Computerworld . A... More >
UK tech chiefs, in an article on Silicon.com , say that offshoring is reducing the number of entry-level jobs in IT -- and that could hurt the country's IT skills overall. Especially in thi... More >
Seeking new business models and services in preparation for the economic recovery, the Asia-Pacific business process outsourcing industry is expected to grow by 11.2 percent to US$29 billion in 2013,... More >
The three known at Sun as "the JRuby Guys" are all moving to Engine Yard, saying they're unsure whether Oracle will continue to support their work on the Ruby programming language for the Java Virt... More >
Math skills are the common denominator in the top 15 highest-earning college degrees, according to a recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Engineering blows th... More >
Networking is the most promising area for job growth in the third quarter, according to Robert Half Technology's IT Hiring Index and Skills Report . It ranked Desktop support second, followed closel... More >
John R. Wetsch, director of North Carolina's Window of Information on Student Education program, answers IT career questions in a Computerworld post, including one on re-entering the IT work force... More >
Companies have a specific goal in mind with their outsourcing contract, but the missing piece is often the details about how that goal is to be achieved, reports Computerworld . It compares t... More >
A piece on Freshbusinessthinking.com looks at the different models that offshoring can take . Writer Guy Rigby of Smith & Williamson looks at options including offshore outsourcing, j... More >
A report by outsourcing advisory firm TPI finds the economy continues to put a damper on the outsourcing industry, reports InformationWeek . TPI tracks commercial outsourcing contracts o... More >
India's Infosys has landed a 10-year contract with the Indian government to design, develop and support a portal for the ministry of commerce and industry, reports Reuters . Financial details of t... More >
IT firms were watching closely during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India. They were worried about President Obama's comment “Say yes to Buffalo, no to Bangalore,” but al... More >
Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services has renewed its IT support contract with Honolulu-based Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, reports RTT News . It puts the value of the five-year deal... More >
I recently pointed coworkers to this link for the "I Am Poor" app for the iPhone as an example of just how stupid this whole app store thing has become. Now comes word that iPhone app develo... More >
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, with help from researchers at Ryerson and Carnegie Mellon universities, is conducting a survey during July to determine the importance of... More >
Pink-slip day came at Cisco on Thursday as up to 700 people in its San Jose, Calif., campus were laid off, reports The San Jose Mercury News . Positions at other offices also were being cut, though... More >
According to American Machinist , more U.S. manufacturers are bringing production home . Companies are feeling more pressure to keep jobs in the United States , but they're also finding some of th... More >
Citigroup plans to outsource the core processing elements of a U.S. receivables management business to First Data Corp., reports Reuters . Financial terms were not disclosed in the move to... More >
Google's Chrome operating system will boost the need for IT pros with Linux skills, according to recruitment agency CV Screen. The operating system, based on the open source Linux kernel, is d... More >
Digital River, which runs online stores for companies such as Symantec and Microsoft, said it plans to outsource customer service to Tennessee-based Sitel beginning in September, reports TwinCiti... More >
Google closed an office in the Indian city of Hyderabad for two days after one of its contract workers tested positive for the swine flu virus, reports Bloomberg . The Times of India repor... More >
In a survey of 202 North American IT executives by Computer Economics, 46 percent said they plan to cut jobs this year , reports InfoWorld . That number was 24 percent a year ago. This year,... More >
Twitter has hired Alexander Macgillivray , Google's deputy general counsel for products and intellectual property, to be its general counsel, reports The New York Times . Macgillivray, 36, le... More >
In cutting their budgets, many companies cut IT pros who know how to work on mainframes and now are paying the price for it. Those pros now are being offered lucrative deals by companies hurting fo... More >
It's official. Sprint Nextel will outsource management of its network to Ericsson and 6,000 Sprint workers will go with the deal, reports Reuters . The seven-year deal will be worth $4.5 billion t... More >
Motorola is cutting another 74 jobs at its Libertyville, Ill., site, home of its mobile phone group, reports The Chicago Tribune . The handset maker has eliminated 7,500 jobs since October, most in... More >
Virginia's largest newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is calling for an investigation into why the head of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency has been ousted . State CIO Lemuel... More >
Microsoft in April said it would offer 30,000 vouchers for online training in Washington state as part of its Elevate America program. TechFlash reports, however, reports that more than 17,000 o... More >
Royal Dutch Shell has become the latest UK-based company to issue a pay-cut ultimatum to its IT contractors , reports The Register . The oil company has said it will sever their contracts unless th... More >
Foote Partners, which tracks IT salaries and skills, also finds a bit of sunshine in the gloomy jobs report for June. Information Week earlier put a positive spin on it . Though 467,000 j... More >
The U.S. unemployment rate for electrical and electronic engineers more than doubled in the second quarter to 8.6 percent, reports EE Times . It was 4.1 percent in the first quarter. The pr... More >
American Express has awarded a five-year contract to EDS to manage its desktops and voice and data networks , reports Network World . Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agre... More >
British mobile phone content provider Teimlo is hiring a marketer, but it's only taking applications by text , reports Reuters . So you'd have to sell yourself in 160 characters or less. CEO... More >
Three months after the United States began taking applications for H-1B visas, there are more than 20,000 of them still available , reports GlobalVisas . That's in contrast to past years w... More >
Though the Labor Department said 467,000 jobs overall were cut in June , according to a Washington Post story, InformationWeek takes a bit rosier view in a report on the second quarter. I... More >
In an effort to trim costs, BT has offered its staff year-long sabbaticals at 25 percent of their current salary. At the moment, the flexible working package is optional and will be rolled out as a l... More >
According to CFDT, a French labor union, Oracle will be cutting 1,000 jobs in Europe. The U.S. software company made the announcement during recent meetings of the company's European and French worke... More >
After posting a $595 million loss, British Airways took an unusual step in asking its 40,000 employees to work one month for free. The move was called one of the dumbest moments in business this ye... More >
The administration of President Barack Obama is backing a legal decision that would extend the amount of time a foreign student can work in the U.S. without an H-1B visa. Under the ruling, foreign st... More >
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