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A survey commissioned by IT assurance company NCC Group found that 20 percent of IT managers for large enterprises fear that their outsourced IT systems are provided with less IT security than thei... More >
If you're considering outsourcing warehousing, shipping, and returns processing for your fulfillment center, this piece on practical ecommerce spells out how to go about it. It offers good... More >
A survey commissioned by consulting and IT services provider Morse found that 57 percent of 1,460 workers surveyed spend an average of 40 minutes a week on social-networking sites during the day for ... More >
British television station ITV's "Tonight" program recently exposed a company in India where call center employees were selling confidential British medical and financial data for as little as "fiv... More >
Outsourcing industry observers are just waiting for the next merger between vendors to happen, reports Computerworld . There's no question that it will, according to Mark Robinson, chief o... More >
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has complained that the holdup in getting European regulatory clearance for its buyout of Sun Microsystems is costing the company $100 million a month . Now Sun says ... More >
Sony Ericsson has entered into a five-year IT outsourcing agreement with HP Enterprise Services (formerly EDS), reports TMCnet.com . Financial details were not disclosed. Under the deal, HP ... More >
The University of California-Berkeley is combining several programs to cater to student interest in green technology, reports The San Francisco Chronicle . It's creating The Energy Institute... More >
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times , Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz disses the whole idea of the annual performance review. Lots of folks have similar complaints, as IT Business Ed... More >
Consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture has announced two outsourcing contracts, though it released no financial details on either one. In a deal with Fiat Item , a subsidiary of Italian au... More >
Online auction site eBay has confirmed that layoffs will be part of an "organizational fine-tuning" to streamline and simplify its management structure, according to a Dow Jones story in The Wall... More >
IBM will manage IT for Brazilian retail chain Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao (CBD) in a five-year, $115 million deal, according to a Dow Jones story in The Wall Street Journal. As par... More >
U.S. outsourcing company Cognizant Technology Solutions is buying the India-based back-office operations of UBS , reports PCWorld . Cognizant will pay the Zurich-based financial services fir... More >
A report by research firm Clean Edge and PayScale looks at jobs in green tech and the 15 areas you're most likely to find them, reports earth2tech . It's a hot topic, given the millions i... More >
Tata Consultancy Services plans to more than quadruple its work force in China over the next five years to handle the expected increase in customers there, reports The Wall Street Journal . ... More >
European aerospace giant Airbus is working up a sweat fighting fires over a report that it plans to move 20 percent of its engineering work to India and other low-cost countries by 2012. Reuters no... More >
The Institute of Electrical Engineers-USA found the Labor Department's third-quarter unemployment report a mixed bag , reports CIO.com. Overall, unemployment for computer professionals reach... More >
Fujitsu is likely facing a strike as the Unite Union's 1,500 members are set to vote whether or not to stike over cuts to their pensions. Balloting will begin Monday, October 12, and results are expe... More >
Tech wages increased 1.07 percent in the second quarter when compared with the quarter a year ago, according to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages . TechRepublic quotes Yoh President Lori Schu... More >
Verizon Business has landed a six-year deal with JetBlue Airways to manage its data center, network infrastructure and help desk, reports Computerworld . Part of the pact is for existing Je... More >
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told UK business group CBI that IT will help create 78,000 jobs there by 2013 , based on the company's joint research with market analyst IDC, reports Information Age . ... More >
Florida-based customer-service outsourcing provider Sykes Enterprises is buying Pennsylvania-based BPO provider ICT Group for about $263 million in cash and stock, reports Reuters . Sykes will pay... More >
MySpace has hired its first chief financial officer , reports Bloomberg . Mark Rosenbaum, most recently a consultant to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will oversee budgeting, strategic planning and fin... More >
Coca-Cola plans to outsource its data center to Hewlett-Packard , a move that could affect about 90 employees in Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . The story doesn't spe... More >
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