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Russian mafia's Net threat
News Organized crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into US e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat.
Protesters decry outsourcing to India
News Picketers show up to protest a trend that's shaking up the U.S. IT industry: The flight of jobs to countries like India.
Study: Not all entry-level IT work headed offshore
News And Berkeley researcher says "downskilling" of some tech duties, combined with training programs, may help bridge the digital divide.
Tags: IT outsourcing
Wireless workers upbeat about jobs
News More than 74 percent of industry pros rated the current job market as "strong" or "growing," according to a recent survey.
Tags: Workplace
Merrill Lynch predicts offshoring growth
News But the company also finds that many chief information officers are planning to hire internal IT staff.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
Amazon looks to solve problems that stump computers
News "Mechanical Turk" service lets developers tap, and pay, global network of humans to handle small tasks that are part of larger software processes.
Tags: Web sites, Groupware, work flow software, Product development and design
Sun's OpenOffice open for business
News A competitor to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office desktop software, Sun's OpenOffice is the open-source version of the company's StarOffice software suite.
FAQ: The Code Red threat
News CNET News.com answers common questions about the Code Red worm:
Has demand for foreign workers fallen?
News The Immigration and Naturalization Service will tell Congress on Monday how many H-1B visas have been issued this fiscal year--shedding light on whether the economic downturn has reduced the once red-hot demand for foreign workers.
Laid-off techies take the world by storm
News Self-declared "start-up junkie" Michael Lin is kicking his dot-com habit--at least temporarily--by hitting the road.
Code Red crawls back into action
News The Code Red worm made a quiet comeback Wednesday, with no signs yet of a predicted traffic surge that could affect the functioning of the Internet.
TiVo forum hushes hacking discussion
News The operator of a Web forum devoted to and sponsored by digital video recorder maker TiVo has asked people to stop posting information about how to copy video off the device onto another machine, fearing he could be held liable for violating a controversial digital copyright law.
TiVo forum hushes hacking discussion
News The operator of a Web forum devoted to and sponsored by digital video recorder maker TiVo has asked people to stop posting information about how to copy video off the device onto another machine, fearing he could be held liable for violating a controversial digital copyright law.
Code Red hits a plateau
News The dreaded Code Red worm was fading from the spotlight last Friday, as the pest found fewer Web servers to infect.
HK ignorance spawns spam
News Many Hong Kong companies fail to take measures against junk mail because of their lack of expertise and ignorance over the consequences, a local expert charges.
