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[Posted on February 8, 2007 - 4:26 PM]
The International Herald Tribune has an interesting story out of Mumbai, India, where outsourcing companies attending an industry gathering warned that their business can not continue to thrive by providing cheap labor alone. Not only is the cost of labor in India being undercut by many regions in eastern Europe and Asia, but industry leaders warn that as outsourcing becomes...

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[Posted on December 19, 2006 - 11:31 AM]
In this season of giving, the cashless church-goers have a new means to donate, via ATM-like kiosks (seen at left) that accept credit and debit cards. Now, there's no more waiting for the passing of the plate at Stevens Creek Community Church in Augusta, Ga., and eight other churches, which have installed the ATM-like kiosks called SecureGive, according to...

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[Posted on June 8, 2006 - 5:14 PM]
Anyone with Internet access and a Yahoo! account could have seen an Oracle Corp. press release cross the business PR wire at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday. But the software and database giant's mechanisms for delivering its news to reporters that track the company on a regular basis is a different matter. Oracle's three-sentence statement arrived in my...

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[Posted on May 22, 2006 - 2:42 PM]
According to the latest McKinsey quarterly report, chief information officers want integrated telecommunications and information technology services. And who could blame them? With Internet protocol making both possible with one type of connection, it seems logical that IT services and telecommunications carriers will gradually converge. British Telecommunications plc is going in that direction as illustrated by the latest issue of...

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[Posted on May 4, 2006 - 12:06 PM]
On Wednesday morning at the WCIT 2006, the goal was to tug at our heart strings, but in later sessions the goal was to make your knees quake with fear. Joe McGrath, CEO of Unisys stepped up to give a new vision of global network security needed to keep the global economy humming along. After a video about the interdependence...

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[Posted on April 24, 2006 - 2:03 PM]
Another security technology company got snapped up Monday when Bedford, Mass.-based RSA Security Inc. said it had acquired PassMark Security Inc., a maker of authentication software, for $44.7 million in cash and stock. PassMark, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides authentication for conducting transactions online. Specifically, its technology is designed to guarantee the identity of a person who visits a...

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[Posted on April 10, 2006 - 2:19 PM]
The dark cloud hanging over the annual cable industry show sponsored by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association has taken the form of possible legal action over Cablevision's recently announced plan for hosted digitial video recorder servcies. No official word has come down, but programmers everywhere are looking into the legality of the service. Time Warner tried a similar program...

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[Posted on April 6, 2006 - 1:03 PM]
The most touted of the 'software as a service' crowd, Salesforce.com is apparently not above some underhanded tactics in trying to stay ahead of the competition. The company run by Larry Ellison protégé Marc Benioff is drawing fire from Entellium, one of its many on-demand competitors. Salesforce's marketing team has written up an evaluation sheet, with a checklist that compares...

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[Posted on April 4, 2006 - 12:15 PM]
The information technology blog Slashdot is featuring a lively Internet debate on the pending Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) approved last week by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. On-the-ground nerds are largely supportive of the bill, which would require companies to disclose all computer system security breaches to customers and others that could be harmed by the release...

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[Posted on April 3, 2006 - 12:49 PM]
Fear mongering in an election year isn't abnormal, and so the rash of concern over cross border deals shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. First there was the DP World port issue, then the refusal to approve the sale of U.S.-based Sourcefire Inc. to Israel's Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and now the Lucent Technologies Inc./Alcatel deal may get...

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