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Offshoring pays off with the right strategy
News Reduce project failure by weighing the benefits and risks and avoiding mistakes of the past, experts say.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Offshoring
Group warns of outsourcing backlash
News Feeling political pressure from the U.S. Congress over the loss of U.S. tech jobs to offshore workers, the U.S.-based Computer Systems Policy Project on Wednesday released a report stressing the need to keep international doors open so that domestic companies can remain competitive.
Yahoo searches the Net for next CEO
News Executive search firm Spencer Stuart, hired by Yahoo to find its next chief executive, puts out a casting call to the world via its Web site.
Think proprietary: Australian government
Insight Open-source developers keen to impress potential government buyers can learn from the practices of proprietary software vendors, a senior government procurement officer told attendees at the AUUG 2004 conference in Melbourne.
Without Inouye, Gateway searches for new direction
Insight The CEO leaves the company in profitable waters after his resignation, but its long-term future is far from settled.
Tags: Personal Computers, Leadership, Strategy
Adobe BlazeDS goes open source
News In its latest open source move, Adobe says it will release an open-source version of its BlazeDS tool for connecting data sources to Flash-based rich Internet applications.
Tags: Mobile commerce, Open source, Web services
PMOs keep projects on track and under budget
Insight IT leaders need to consider scope, structure, and staffing when setting up a project management office. Learn how one CIO used a centralized project management approach to help unify a highly diversified company.
Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser
News Ask Jeeves, Mozilla Foundation begin talks on Jeeves browser and on donating Jeeves' search technology to the open-source group.
Tags: Web browsers
REDtone expects revenues to hit S$100m
News Locally-based REDtone International Pte Ltd, a developer of computer telephony products, expects to generate worldwide revenues of S$100 million over the next five years.
REDtone expects revenues to hit S$100 million
News Locally based REDtone International Pte Ltd, a developer of computer telephony products, expects to generate worldwide revenues of S$100 million over the next five years--and it is pinning its hopes on the company's new flagship product, REDtone Total Enterprise Communication Server (TECS).
Netscape 6 finally ships after 32-month gestation
News More than two and a half years after unveiling its source code to the world, Netscape Communications will release a browser built on that open source later today.
S'pore: Talking textbooks for schoolkids?
News Singapore's schoolkids could soon get a taste of high-tech learning, complete with interactive textbooks featuring talking 3-D avatars.
Forrester: Consider unorthodox sources for IT staff
News SAP will embed Informatica's integration software products into its performance-management and analytic apps, as well as the NetWeaver platform.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Recruiting
Outsourcing to heal e-health woes
News The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) of Australia will be stepping up recruitment by outsourcing, offshore recruitment and creative contractual arrangements.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Cost control, IT budgeting
Poor data hinders corporate social responsibility drive
News Data and information needed to prioritize CSR investment and measure its impact is currently spread across organizations in disparate systems and databases, says AMR Research.
Tags: Business ethics
