http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:08:56 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-08T19:08:56Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/nokia-plans-to-cut-4000-shift-assembly-to-asia/?cs=49727 After posting a fourth quarter operating loss of $1.25 billion, Nokia has announced that it will cut 4,000 manufacturing jobs . The cuts will affect plants in Hungary, Mexico and Finland, which will all shift their focus to finishing and customization, nokia europe microsoft windows_phone apple reduction_in_force asia latin_america htc samsung Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:08:56 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/nokia-plans-to-cut-4000-shift-assembly-to-asia/?cs=49727 2012-02-08T19:08:56Z 4 days, 9 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/nokia-plans-to-cut-4000-shift-assembly-to-asia http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49727 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/app-development-offers-bright-spot-in-still-weak-economy/?cs=49710 10 Cutting-edge Mobile Application Trends for 2012 Mobile applications will increasingly define the user experience on high-end devices. Our Susan Hall pointed out last November that mobile app development was the place to be if you wanted to “write mobile_applications apple software_and_web_development technet facebook staff_recruiting_and_retention Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:03:24 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/app-development-offers-bright-spot-in-still-weak-economy/?cs=49710 2012-02-07T16:03:24Z 5 days, 12 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/app-development-offers-bright-spot-in-still-weak-economy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49710 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/microsoft-expected-to-announce-layoffs/?cs=49672 Several sites are reporting that Microsoft is set to announce a round of layoffs today. The reported 200 layoffs are expected to hit the marketing department as a result of restructuring. Forbes ’ Eric Savitz reports that most of the cuts will be in microsoft reduction_in_force microsoft_office advertising_and_marketing windows Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:56:51 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/microsoft-expected-to-announce-layoffs/?cs=49672 2012-02-01T19:56:51Z 1 week, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/microsoft-expected-to-announce-layoffs http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49672 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/federal-cto-chopra-stepping-down/?cs=49632 In yet another executive shake-up , U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has decided to step down from his post . An official announcement is expected at some point today. Chopra was formerly Virginia’s secretary of technology and was tapped by aneesh_chopra government_agencies executive_suite Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:45:02 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/federal-cto-chopra-stepping-down/?cs=49632 2012-01-27T20:45:02Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/federal-cto-chopra-stepping-down http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49632 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/rubinstein-leaves-hp/?cs=49631 Jon Rubinstein, a senior vice president of HP’s PC business, has left the company . Rubinstein was previously a chief executive at Palm and had joined HP when it acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in April of 2010. According to an HP spokesman, Rubinstein palm hp executive_suite Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:41:00 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/rubinstein-leaves-hp/?cs=49631 2012-01-27T19:41:00Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/rubinstein-leaves-hp http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49631 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/yahoo-co-founder-jerry-yang-leaves/?cs=49547 Tech CEO Report Card Find out how the CEOs of twelve top tech companies are rated by their employees. TIME Techland reports that Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down and leaving the fledging Internet company. Yang co-founded the company 17 yahoo executive_suite board_of_directors scott_thompson jerry_yang Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:57:12 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/yahoo-co-founder-jerry-yang-leaves/?cs=49547 2012-01-18T16:57:12Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/yahoo-co-founder-jerry-yang-leaves http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49547 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/stocks-push-cook-s-2011-pay-to-378-million/?cs=49483 Tech CEO Report Card Find out how the CEOs of 12 top tech companies are rated by their employees. It’s being reported in Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple CEO Tim Cook will receive a pay package worth $378 million for 2011 — one of the biggest pay executive_suite tim_cook oracle steve_ballmer compensation apple microsoft larry_ellison Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:00:31 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/stocks-push-cook-s-2011-pay-to-378-million/?cs=49483 2012-01-10T20:00:31Z 1 month, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/stocks-push-cook-s-2011-pay-to-378-million http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49483 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/wipro-reorg-combines-global-indian-it-businesses/?cs=49069 10 Best Practices for Selecting Onshore, Nearshore or Offshore Technology Services Wipro Technologies is consolidating its global and Indian IT units into a single Global Infrastructure and Services unit . A mydigitalfc.com report includes a india offshoring Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:58:31 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/wipro-reorg-combines-global-indian-it-businesses/?cs=49069 2011-11-11T15:58:31Z 3 months, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/wipro-reorg-combines-global-indian-it-businesses http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49069 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/cios-ceos-have-differing-views-on-staffing/?cs=48896 Two Gartner surveys administered in 2010 highlight a gap in how CEOs and other senior executives view talent management and how CIOs do. As Diane Berry, a managing vice president in Gartner's CIO & Executive Leadership Research group, writes on executive_suite staff_recruiting_and_retention Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:29:20 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/cios-ceos-have-differing-views-on-staffing/?cs=48896 2011-10-20T17:29:20Z 3 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/cios-ceos-have-differing-views-on-staffing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48896 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/thinksolutions-mexico-is-top-nearshore-option-for-us/?cs=48819 10 Best Practices for Selecting Onshore, Nearshore or Offshore Technology Services . Mexico landed at the top of a new ranking of Latin American nearshoring options compiled by consulting company ThinkSolutions, thanks largely to NAFTA and to its outsourcing latin_america Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:40:40 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/thinksolutions-mexico-is-top-nearshore-option-for-us/?cs=48819 2011-10-11T17:40:40Z 4 months, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/thinksolutions-mexico-is-top-nearshore-option-for-us http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48819 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/acs-beefs-up-financial-services-offerings-with-symcor-buy/?cs=48768 ACS, the outsourcing provider purchased by Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2009, is buying the U.S. operations of Symcor, which specializes in providing outsourcing services for financial institutions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.   outsourcing mergers_and_acquisitions Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:53:28 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/acs-beefs-up-financial-services-offerings-with-symcor-buy/?cs=48768 2011-10-05T15:53:28Z 4 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/acs-beefs-up-financial-services-offerings-with-symcor-buy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48768 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/electronics-giant-best-buy-plans-to-cut-holiday-hiring/?cs=48717 The Washington Business Journal 's Ed Stych reports that Best Buy plans on hiring half the temporary holiday workers it hired last year — from 29,000 to 15,000 — and increasing the hours of regular staffers. According to CEO Brian Dunn, the move is staff_recruiting_and_retention reduction_in_force business_development Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:31:05 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/electronics-giant-best-buy-plans-to-cut-holiday-hiring/?cs=48717 2011-09-28T20:31:05Z 4 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/electronics-giant-best-buy-plans-to-cut-holiday-hiring http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48717 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/weakening-rupee-no-longer-a-big-deal-for-indian-outsourcers/?cs=48687 Top 10 Security Questions to Ask Before Outsourcing Any IT Generally speaking, a weak dollar makes it less financially compelling for U.S. companies to purchase services from foreign companies. The usual strategy is to purchase goods and services from offshoring outsourcing india Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:06:04 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/weakening-rupee-no-longer-a-big-deal-for-indian-outsourcers/?cs=48687 2011-09-26T17:06:04Z 4 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/weakening-rupee-no-longer-a-big-deal-for-indian-outsourcers http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48687 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/banks-contractor-rates-exposed/?cs=48465 Staffing firm Hays is in hot water with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) after a staffer sent out an email with full pay details of 3,000 contractors at the bank, according to CIO.co.uk . The bank has been shedding IT workers and back-office staff in e-mail_security data_security staff_recruiting_and_retention Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:13:45 GMT Hallsusand@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/banks-contractor-rates-exposed/?cs=48465 2011-08-25T16:13:45Z 5 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/banks-contractor-rates-exposed http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48465 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/facebook-turns-to-stack-overflow-for-developer-forums/?cs=48461 Stack Overflow, a site where employers like to see developers who have been involved in outside projects, is teaming up with Facebook. Actually, Facebook plans to ditch its developer forums in favor of a new site:  facebook.stackoverflow.com .   stack_overflow software_and_web_development facebook Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:35:26 GMT Hallsusand@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/facebook-turns-to-stack-overflow-for-developer-forums/?cs=48461 2011-08-25T14:35:26Z 5 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/comment/facebook-turns-to-stack-overflow-for-developer-forums http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sou/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=48461