CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.
Outsourcer Satyam has announced a major investment in Geelong, Victoria's second city, where a full-scale campus will eventually provide training and global career opportunities for up to 2000 recent university graduates.
After expanding its supply chain outsourcing agreement with IBM late last year, Telstra warned of job losses by June as the computing giant replaced the telco's staff with its own in some technical areas, but the union representing the workers has stepped in to broker a stronger deal for those facing redundancy.
The Department of Defence has signed a AU$240 million, five-year contract with Unisys to provide support services such as network security, infrastructure support and server and desktop support.
Apple has released the results of its investigation into whether workers at its iPod manufacturing plant in China have been subject to labour abuses.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
As the world's environment changes, scientists are becoming increasingly worried that large numbers of species will become extinct. Could this also happen in the corporate environment?
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
It's a dead end job, according to call centre and offshoring workers in India. So they're quitting in droves.
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.
As demand for Indian IT services grows, finding talent will become increasingly difficult, according to a Tata Consultancy Services executive.
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