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Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Insight The recession has brought on an offshoring backlash. But an industry watcher argues other factors are harming U.K. IT careers even more.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SOA, IT System, economist, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, job loss
S'pore, Taiwan among world's most competitive
News update Five economies in Asia-Pacific make top 20 list of world's most IT competitive nations in new study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit.
Tags: Local Government, India, Business Software Alliance, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, Broadband Penetration, South Korea, Environment, vision
S'pore, China shine in global IT index
News update Singapore jumps up to fourth spot in annual rankings, while China overtakes India to lead emerging markets, finds World Economic Forum report.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT Governance, Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Networking technology, Government, Investments, Economy, Asia, India
Regulating the unregulated telecoms market
Blogs It was on a plane trip back home from Singapore that I was able to grab a copy of a magazine (I can’t remember if it was...
Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012
News Survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists and technologists about tech life in 2020 finds expectations of haptic and voice interfaces.
Tags: Keyboards and mice, Wireless e-mail devices, Cell Phone, Survey, Internet appliance, copy protection, economist, phone, virtual keyboard, keyboard
Of Facebookers and the Facebook-nots
Blogs Strange things tend to happen during a recession. A recent report by Economist Intelligence Unit (Global Economic Outloo...
Kachingle to 'sprinkle' dollars to online publishers
News Startup will help people distribute, say, US$5 a month automatically among favorite Web sites, hoping the idea will catch on now that content providers are "desperate enough".
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Site, micropayment, online publisher, economist, Facebook, CEO, Canada, founder
Customers to devise killer-gadgets of the future
News A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that within five years, 'prosumers' will be feeding their ideas straight onto company production lines.
Tags: Development/design, Apple Inc., Report, economist, London, Silicon.com, marketing, product design, analyst, Web Site
If not IT, what is India's next growth engine?
Blogs When you are used to double-digit growth rates (ranging from 13 to 50 percent per annum), a growth forecast of 4 to 7 pe...
Opposition mounts against P2P disconnection plan
News Proposals in the United Kingdom to disconnect the broadband service of suspected illegal file-sharers have come under fresh attack from ISPs, rights groups, and creative artists' groups.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Proposal, Consultation, Signatory, P2P, British Telecommunications, file-sharing, Internet Service Provider, lobbyist
Google adjusts to life with trustbusters
News In less time than it takes for some government investigations, the search company has gone from start-up to accused menacer of Internet competition. Fair or not, this is Google 2.0.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Operating systems, Internet Search Advertising, U.S. Department Of Justice, AT&T Corp., antitrust, Wharton School, Internet, Web browsers
Consumer electronics hit by inventory glut
News Inventories pile up for manufacturers of computers, mobile phones and TVs, signaling a worse-than-forecast fourth quarter.
Tags: Hardware, Sales strategy, Sales/revenue, Cost control, Business development/management, SanDisk Corp., Inventory, TV, Electronics, Sales
Mobile marketing takes off in India
News The reach to more than 330 million mobile subscribers in the country makes the platform a significant means for targeted advertising there.
Tags: Advertising, Mobile/Wireless, Communications, Mobile, India, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Mobile Advertising, Advertisement, phone
Is Qi Lu Microsoft's search engine savior?
News The former Yahoo tech whiz believes Google will be vulnerable to the new Bing search engine; stakes are high.
Tags: App servers, Search, Web services, Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Redmond, job, Microsoft Windows
Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
News Reporters Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided or isn't really something to worry about.
Tags: Domain names, Mobile platforms/communications, Web services, Web servers, Crisis communications, CNN, Google Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., micropayment, Crisis communications
