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Indian IT runs home, new geographies for growth
News Hit by global recession, India's local tech firms target projects on home soil and venture into new regions including Middle East and Latin America.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Growth strategies and tools, Business, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Banking, Growth, Market, Information Technology, revenue
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Insight perspective India's successful tech executives are beginning to focus on social problems. Could this be just what the country needs?
Tags: IT outsourcing, Leadership, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, income tax, Saritha Rai, insurance, co-founder, bank
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Insight perspective Analyst at U.K. insurer Celent explains what CIOs of firms weighed down by legacy systems, can do to update their organization.
Tags: Mainframes, Business applications, IT Governance, Insurance Company, M&A, legacy system, COBOL, Celent, Catherine Stagg-Macey, CIO
Intel files US$50M suit against insurance firm
News Lawsuit follows American Guarantee and Liability Insurance's failure to pay for Intel's legal defense related to antitrust lawsuits.
Tags: Antitrust, Lawsuits, Mobile processors, Processors, Insurance Company, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Lawsuit
1980s computers hold up UK taxman's hunt
News Outdated computer systems have resulted in a 16.2 million backlog of people in the United Kingdom who waiting to be checked manually to see if they are paying the right amount of tax.
Tags: Taxes, Backlog, computer, insurance, tax credit, job, U.K., revenue, spokesman, tax
Patient privacy in peril?
News New U.S. legislation urging doctors and hospitals to keep electronic, rather than paper, health records may not go far enough in shielding sensitive information.
Tags: Privacy, Insurance Company, Record, Privacy, medical record, public health, electronic health record, insurance, Washington, health insurance
HSBC companies slapped with US$5M fines over data breaches
News Three HSBC companies are hit with fines after the financial services watchdog finds they were not doing enough to protect customers' data.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security Management, Training, floppy disk, Identity Theft, insurance, financial, financial service, managing director
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Aviva insures datacenters with US$988M deal
News Insurance giant Aviva has inked a US$988 million, 10-year deal with EDS to run its U.K. datacenters.
Tags: Data centers, Hitachi Ltd., Virtualization, Aviva Plc., India, Electronic Data Systems Corp., server consolidation, insurance, Silicon.com, U.K.
UC Berkeley computers hacked, 160,000 at risk
News Attackers access public health center Web site, then break into secured databases on the same server, stealing some 97,000 Social Security numbers.
Tags: Hacking, University, Database, health service, computer, Server, insurance, health insurance, Web Site, health care
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
Time ripe for Mozy and cloud backup services
News commentary EMC's Mozy is an online storage and backup-and-recovery product that mostly targets consumers, but it is now also attracting interest from business customers.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud, Backup, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Broadband, photograph, Cloud computing, insurance
Asian firms prep for disaster, but not well
News More businesses recognize need to establish disaster recovery strategy, but face challenges deploying such plans successfully, say industry players.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery, Business planning, Disaster Recovery, Plan, Survey, Small And Medium Business, Malaysia, business continuity, Business planning
Revealed: Secrets to outsourcing success
News U.K. multinationals reveal their sometimes rocky relationship with outsourcing and tell how offshoring helps them survive the downturn.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Aviva Plc., Conference, IT Services, Outsourcing Company, Accenture Ltd., insurance, outsource
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Companies are gathering more data and using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modeling to improve their businesses.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Data, data mining, Fiat, RSA Security Inc., insurance, Prague, Customer, Web, car
