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  • IT firms take heat for 'sweatshop' labour

    Workers in developing countries who make computer components for companies such as IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are suffering atrocious conditions for extremely low pay, according to a report published Tuesday.

  • Pacific Internet targets multinationals

    Pacific Internet has set up offices in Malaysia, giving it presence in seven countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. This is part of a long-term strategy to woo multinational companies by allowing them to use the one service, and get the one bill.

  • Aust outsourcer Kaz shakes up operations

    Australian outsourcing specialist Kaz Group has restructured its operations in a shake-up which extinguishes the Aspect Computing brand.

  • 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?

  • 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

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  • 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?

  • Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

    Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

  • How outsourcing saved one catering company

    Outsourcing can be a contentious issue, but catering company Sodexho has found that when done right, it can make life much easier.

  • Profile: Leading edge Australian companies

    Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.

  • Wireless: Breaking the shackles

    We look at four examples of the way mobile technologies such as GPRS and 802.11 are giving Australian businesses the opportunity to bring the benefits of connectivity to mobile workers.

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