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  • Cost-cutting drives outsourcing growth

    New research indicates that companies providing IT products and services will continue to increase their use of outsourcing agreements in order to lower overhead expenses.

  • Report: IBM to shift work overseas

    IBM is declining to comment on a report that it plans to move the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere, but it said this week it expects hiring next year in the United States to equal or increase over 2003 levels.

  • ERG to outsource to India

    Australian smartcard developer ERG has decided to outsource software development to India in a move that could be a blow to local industry.

  • Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

    IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems

  • HP defends Malaysia offshoring move

    The new boss of Hewlett-Packard's Asia-Pacific operations has defended the vendor's move to offshore some Australian support work to Malaysia, saying most customers would accept the move as long as service levels remained consistent.

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  • Will China dominate outsourcing?

    Wipro's Sudip Banerjee explains why many Indian companies fear being left behind by an emerging -- and less expensive -- China.

  • The next Internet revolution is coming

    "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come," said Howard Charney, Cisco's senior vice president, borrowing from Victor Hugo to summarise the power of the Internet.

  • Outsourcing overseas

    Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development?

  • Analyst plays down offshore outsourcing impact as tension rises

    A leading Asia-Pacific tech analyst claims the outsourcing of information technology and business processes offshore is "not something to get overly excited about," despite increasing international controversy over the migration of jobs to lower-cost countries.

  • The right and wrong predictions of 2007

    In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.

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  • Taiwanese maker nabs notebook top spot

    Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta made more notebooks than any other PC maker worldwide last year, as the trend for technology companies to outsource work continued.

  • Strong growth ahead for semiconductor industry: IDC

    The semiconductor market will grow at 18 percent in 2004, according to International Data Corp. The growth will be driven by stronger than expected mobile phone and PC shipments.

  • Taiwanese chipmakers pool research

    Twelve companies are combining silicon know-how in a bid to boost the country's chip competitiveness in a cutthroat global market.

  • Phillips plans for networked threads

    If Philips Semiconductor CEO Scott McGregor is gets his way wireless functionality will be inserted into clothes, cars, books, plane tickets, TVs, keyboards and homes.

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