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Some recent contracts for outsourced desktop support have shown dramatic price declines , reports Computerworld . Outsourcing consultancy Alsbridge's benchmarking division ProBenchmark point... More >
As it pushes to meet its WiMax rollout goals, Clearwire Chief Executive William Morrow has named two execs to the management team, reports TechFlash . Erick Prusch, former CEO of Borland So... More >
A union representing workers at Fujitsu plants in the UK says its members are prepared to strike if the company proceeds with plans to cut pensions and freeze pay, according to BBC News . T... More >
In a piece on CIO.com , Martha Heller of executive recruiting firm ZRG Partners looks at five essential skills that CIOs of the future will need on their resumes. They are: Experience runni... More >
CIO.com calls Walmart CIO Rollin Ford "woefully underpaid," though he ranks No. 9 on the list of the top 10 CIO salaries on Retail Info Systems News . Based on 2008 compensation, Best Bu... More >
The H-1B visa reform bill introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., contains a provision that would make it more difficult to move the visa holder from one company to anot... More >
Failure to properly manage their outsourcing will lead to a 30 percent failure rate in such projects by 2012, Gartner says. Cost-cutting in the sour economy is speeding this failure along, it... More >
Fujitsu has announced plans to cut about 10 percent of its work force in the UK -- about 1,200 people -- in an attempt to deal with lower-than-expected revenues in the downturn, reports Reuters . ... More >
Hewlett-Packard will develop a new passenger service system for American Airlines that will handle reservations, sales, flight information and check-in, reports The Dallas Morning News . It will se... More >
IBM's deal with oil and gas producer BP isn't its only outsourcing deal. Financial Times reports Big Blue is working with Deutsche Börse to upgrade the system of the European stock exchange ... More >
Oil and gas producer BP has signed outsourcing deals with IBM and India's big three: Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services, reports Reuters . No financial details were released, though IBM ... More >
IT Business Edge's Ann All has written a lot about the tough job CIOs have -- a role not always easily defined and one that's evolving. It's been a job recently made much more difficult by the ec... More >
In a post on Purchasing.com , Michael Higgs, president of Road Warrior Consulting, addresses the tools and resources your company needs for outsourcing. He calls the article "Back to Basics." ... More >
Yahoo bigwigs made clear Monday that they're not throwing in the towel on search despite the company's partnership with Microsoft, reports Computerworld . And Microsoft obviously isn't look... More >
The issue of paying overtime for workers who stay connected to the office via their Blackberries has prompted some companies to order workers to turn them off . And with good reason, according to ... More >
In an interview with Bloomberg , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to increase its staff by as much as 50 percent this year. It seems that in this bad economy, there are ple... More >
At this Supply Chain Management blog , Bob Ferrari had some suggestions for Boeing on outsourcing after reading a blog by Aubrey Cohen at seattlepi.com . Among the lessons for the aerospace ... More >
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will take a pay cut in 2010. He'll get $1 a year in base salary , down from the $1-million-a-year base he's received for the past three years, report CNNMoney.com . ... More >
Cutting jobs and reducing employee pay and benefits were among the top ways companies plan to cut their IT budgets this year, according to Forrester Research. In the study of more than 1,000 ... More >
InfoWorld is offering a free online "Security Boot Camp" for IT pros to sharpen their skills. Those who sign up for the four-week camp will get a lesson each work day involving best practic... More >
For companies that want to consider the environmental impact of outsourcing , The Black Book of Outsourcing has put out a list of the 50 best choices, reports Environmental Leader. It rated ... More >
Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan says the company is trying to figure out what cloud computing means for the outsourcing industry , but it might mean more opportunities to serve mid-sized companies, ... More >
The number of employers who look at social-networking sites when screening job applicants is rising and it's especially common for those hiring in IT, according to recent survey data from CareerBuild... More >
EDS has signed a multiyear contract with Nissan North America to provide server and storage system management, reports The Associated Press in a story on MSN. Terms of the agreement were not discl... More >
SearchCIO.com looks at the pros and cons of outsourcing to India, China, the Philippines and Vietnam, based on the views of Frances Karamouzis, a Gartner research vice president, and David Rutchik... More >
Boeing's engineering union is pressing the company to track the amount of time local engineers spend fixing outsourced work , reports The Puget Sound Business Journal . Cynthia Cole, preside... More >
AT&T announced over the weekend it had reached a tentative contract agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, reports FierceTelecom . It put the number of workers... More >
India's major outsourcing companies are looking to reduce their dependence on U.S. clients by wooing customers in Japan , according to The Wall Street Journal . It's been a tough market to c... More >
In this recession, demand is increasing for contract IT workers so this Harvard Business Publishing article should be timely for employers and employees alike. Blogger Steven DeMaio offers... More >
A Labor Department report on Silicon Valley since the dot-com bust shows tech employment is down 17 percent, but tech wages are up 36 percent, reports The San Francisco Chronicle . It noted biddin... More >
A survey by the Warwick Business School has found that nearly six out of 10 chief information officers in Britain fail to measure the financial impact of their outsourcing , reports CIO.com . ... More >
The Labor Department's report for July shows jobs in "computer systems design and related services" rose by 7,900 to 1,464,300. In seasonally adjusted stats, that category delined by 3,400 i... More >
In a piece in The Wall Street Journal , outsourcing provider Mastek Ltd. Chairman and Managing Director Sudhakar Ram talks about what he foresees as the "third wave" for service providers . ... More >
According to a recent Dice.com survey, companies that can't give their IT professionals a raise in this lousy economy can work to retain them by giving them a sense that their jobs are safe. I... More >
CNET News ' Matt Asay writes that for all the hype about PHP, Twitter and Web 2.0, the hot jobs will continue to be in technologies that use COBOL and other veteran programming languages. Mi... More >
Training often is one of the first things to go when the budget is cut, but you still need to keep skills up to date. This Computerworld story suggests six ways to do that on the cheap. They... More >
The union Alliance@IBM counts 184 employees who have been laid off in the most recent round of cuts at Big Blue, though it expects the actual number to be higher, reports InfoWorld . It's s... More >
In an apparent effort to equalize salary ranges in HP divisions and those within acquired EDS, HP management is making a third round of salary cuts to EDS employees' checks, reports V3.co.uk . The s... More >
A new round of layoffs has been confirmed by IBM this week. ITworld.com says pro-union group Alliance@IBM prompted the confirmation of the action affecting around 200 employees. The positions are s... More >
The most recent release of The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series report shows that the overall number of positions advertised online rose slightly, by 700, in July. The numbers had be... More >
An examination by the Associated Press of perks for executives at tech companies found that their median value rose almost 7 percent in 2008. CEO compensation fell 7 percent during the same period,... More >
In a survey of Black Hat USA Security Conference attendees, Breach Security, Inc. reports today that more than 45 percent of 180 responding IT security professionals say they have experienced a redu... More >
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