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  • Offshore is in -- get used to it

    Are you ready for eight more months of demagoguery about how to stop the loss of American technology jobs? I'm sure you're as thrilled about that prospect as I am.

  • Gutless wonders of 2004

    Maybe the start of the baseball season occupied their attention, but eight months before a presidential election, the near-total silence of the technology industry's biggest luminaries about offshore outsourcing is quite remarkable.

  • Don't mention the 'O' word

    In a memorable episode from the English comedy series, "Fawlty Towers," the besotted hotel owner, Basil Fawlty, played by actor John Cleese, suffers a massive concussion. When a group of German tourists turns up at the inn, Fawlty explicitly warns the hired help not to reopen old wounds by making any reference to "the war."

  • Australia lags in tech commercialisation fight

    Australian companies have long prided themselves on their highly inventive nature and global reputation as early adopters of new technology. But Australia's track record in commercialising technical know-how on the global stage is lamentable.

  • AFP stalls in India as crime embraces offshoring

    Despite missing its target to set up a base in India to target ID theft and information crime, the AFP says it's still planning to open its offshore centre.

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  • AU phishing scams to get worse

    Online fraudsters are getting smarter and the current round of "phishing scams" may just be the start, according Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) head Alastair MacGibbon.

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