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Indian passports to go digital next year
News Country preps for e-passports and overhaul of backend infrastructure to enable better security, easier access and faster issuance of travel documents.
Tags: Local Government, Data security, Traveller, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., E-passport, Security, India, Chip, Infineon Technologies AG, Passport
Philippine BPOs must drive higher value
News Country's outsourcing players should now focus on becoming high-value services hubs to differentiate themselves from India, urge industry watchers.
Tags: Services, Outsourcing, India, Philippines, BPO, Back-office, outsource, job, industry, talent
Expats not necessarily first to go in recession
News When companies in Asia initiate retrenchment exercises, they consider salaries and skills first and not whether an employee is a foreign worker, say HR experts.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, Layoffs, Trends, Asia, Thailand, Singapore, e-mail, Human Resources, recession, job
Fiorina 'seriously considering' bid for Senate
News Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says her varied experiences would be an asset if she were to pursue political office.
Tags: Politics, Technology, ICANN, Immigration, Carly Fiorina, U.S. Senate, Washington, CEO, Adobe PDF, health care
Washington leaders meet with tech execs
News Executives from companies belonging to the group TechNet met with congressional leaders and White House officials on Wednesday to talk innovation, immigration, and patents.
Tags: Business plans, Regulations, Executive, Republican, Broadband, U.S. Senate, Microsoft TechNet, U.S. President Barack Obama, Washington, CEO
Aust immigration dept to upgrade system after damning audit
News Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) will look into adopting a new grants management system after a report found it to be so unreliable staff were forced to complete work offline.
Tags: Databases, Database management, SAP AG, CPU, Database, Australia, e-mail, payment, audit, team
Bush leaves behind a mixed technology legacy
News news analysis After 9-11, U.S. President George W. Bush moved to a wartime footing, and with the exception of wiretapping, no longer focused on technology policies.
Tags: Government, Security Management, IT Governance, Security Management, IT Governance, Government
Microsoft: Layoffs for some, visas for others
News Software giant that pushed for more H-1B visas to hire foreign talent and fill need for skilled workers, now faces tough questions as it lays off 5,000.
Tags: Layoffs, Recruiting, Programming languages, Federal Government, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Visa, layoff, Worker, software
Moving to the forefront of IT
Insight Technology is the bloodline of Hong Kong's immigration department, helping the government manage the information of 6.9 million people more efficiently.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance
New passport chip not cause of travellers' problems
News Iris Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, who supplied the technology to the Immigration Department for the new hi-tech machine-readable passports, has asserted that its technology is not the cause of recent difficulties faced by two Malaysians travelling overseas.
Smart passport names create confusion
News Two letters--A and L--in the new Malaysian "Machine Readable Passports" (MRP) are creating confusion for Malaysian Indians at immigration counters at international airports, especially in western countries.
Biometric fingerprint checks for U.K. visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the United Kingdom will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month.
Tags: Biometrics, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Security applications/tools
UK airport begins biometric ID trial
News Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks.
Tags: Biometrics, Security, Facial Recognition, Home Secretary, ID Card, Europe, face recognition, Manchester, London, Silicon.com
HK gov't pushes multi-purpose smart ID card
News The Hong Kong government says that in spite of serious privacy issues Hong Kong citizens "are generally in support" of a new "smart" identity card that it wants to issue to all residents in the special administrative region by 2003.
HK gov't pushes multi-purpose smart ID card
News The Hong Kong Government says that in spite of serious privacy issues Hong Kong citizens "are generally in support" of a new "smart" identity card that it wants to issue to all residents in the special administrative region by 2003.
