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• Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK IT jobs

  Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence" in key offshore locations around the globe.

• Asia-Pac retrenchments hit BT

  Multinational telco British Telecom has confirmed it is retrenching a small number of staff as it redistributes its Asia-Pacific headcount to bulk up in high-growth markets such as India, China and Malaysia.

• India to tighten data protection laws

  Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked for changes in the country's cybersecurity laws to protect the data in foreign work handled by Indian companies.

• BT shuffles Asia-Pac staff

  Multinational telco British Telecom has started redistributing its headcount around the Asia-Pacific region as it bulks up in high-growth markets such as India and China.

• Bird flu threat looms for offshoring firms

  Companies that outsource technology activities overseas are used to facing criticism from customers and politicians but now they face a much bigger challenge: the potential onset of bird flu

Blogs (1)

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  Helen Coonan's fact hunt

  In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.

Features and Case Studies (6)

• Vodafone's Paul Donovan is the man

  commentary: It is not a foregone conclusion that the successor to outgoing Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo will be internally sourced.

• Offshoring: How far, how deep?

  The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.

• Offshoring: Don't shoot the messenger

  India's image as a paragon of outsourcing took a severe beating last week after revelations of offshoring jobs gone awry shook the entire medical fraternity in the UK. But this episode proved that offshoring as a short-term solution can be fatal.

• Not all jobs can be moved offshore

  Tech workers on the bubble can choose to ignore reality, or they figure out what to do about it. For those who don't want--or can't afford--to punt, plenty of domestic opportunities remain for IT pros looking to leverage their skill sets.

• IT firms expand from PCs to payroll

  IT services firms are expanding beyond their traditional role as overseers of networks, PCs and computer help desks, into "back office" areas such as accounting and human resources.

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