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Outsourcing: Bye bye Chennai, hello Brisbane
News With cities like Ireland's Belfast and Australia's Brisbane catching up, outsourcing is no longer about India's Chennai and Mumbai, according to a KPMG report.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, City, Outsourcing, Telecommunications, Asia-Pacific, computer, Belfast, Chennai
Hard times hit Bangalore
Insight perspective Businesses and workers are making big changes to ride out the recession in India's outsourcing hub, according to industry observer.
Tags: Services, IT outsourcing, HCL Technologies, Outsourcing, Conference, India, Outsourcing Company, Saritha Rai, Worker, job
Why banks will push ahead with offshoring
Insight perspective Tough times mean banks and financial services firms may have to overcome fears and embrace new forms of offshoring, says consultant.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Services, Morgan Stanley, Financial Services Organization, Back-office, F&A Offshoring, Andy Jones, compliance, Chennai, financial
Infosys to hire 100 in Australia
News Indian IT services provider intends to fill out senior and middle-level roles in application development and maintenance.
Tags: Business applications, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., financial, Brisbane
Australia to launch border control biometrics
News After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.
Tags: Biometrics, E-passport, Facial Recognition, Spokesperson, Australia, Qantas Airways Ltd., Melbourne, Brisbane, facial recognition biometric, New Zealand
Uni cuts costs with tiered disaster recovery network
Techguide Griffith University in Queensland opts for a virtualized, tiered storage architecture. Find out why.
Lucent ships 'wombat-proof' fiber optic cable to Australia
News Australian company Nextgen Networks says it's received the first shipment of specially made wombat-proof fiber optic cable it needs to start laying a planned 8,400 kilometer national wideband network linking major Australian cities.
Asia Online continues buying spree Down Under
News Internet Service Provider (ISP) Asia Online is continuing to expand its presence in Australia with the acquisition of three more ISPs.
NSW's "cybersquatting" claim taken to town
News The owner of a number of Australian state domain names has hit back at the New South Wales government’s move to “protect” geographical sites from commercial interests, saying a recent decision by the WIPO proves private entities can be legitimate owners of such sites.
Australia says A$12b Y2K investment valuable
News Between A$12 billion and A$15 billion spent on Y2K planning and repairs by the Australian Government and industry has been a valuable investment, says Australia's Minister for Communications and IT.
Fighting town cybersquatters Down Under
News In a move to protect Australian states, territories, cities and towns against commercial cyber-squatters the NSW Government is proposing a “One city One Site” to the Online Council meeting of Australian IT Ministers today.
NSW govt to fight town cybersquatters
News In a move to protect Australian states, territories, cities and towns against commercial cybersquatters, the New South Wales government is proposing a “One City One Site” plan to the Online Council meeting of Australian IT ministers today.
Computers get all clustered
News World experts are meeting in Brisbane to brainstorm the next step in the evolution of the Internet--linking computers via the Net to provide super-computer capacity.
IBM targets Japanese companies' processes
News IBM is targeting business process outsourcing opportunities in the lucrative Japanese market through a new centre in Brisbane.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Business applications
Australia pips Singapore as BMC's AP sales base
News Management software maker BMC Software has selected Melbourne as its base to provide sales support for Asia-Pacific, pipping Singapore in a two-way race.
Tags: Business applications
