US President Barack Obama highlighted his anti-outsourcing view again at the state of the union address on the day before yesterday. He stated that this is the time to end tax break to US firms that outsource their jobs to overseas and allow fresh tax breaks to those firms that create jobs within USA. The latter part of the last statement is an indirect threat to the outsourcing destination like India, Phillipines etc. Obama emphasised his previous comment in May, 2009 that job creation within US is his topmost priority and he advised outsourcing company to choose "Buffalo over Bangalore". Full article (520 words) »

MOHALI - Smartdata enterprises, an offshore software outsourcing company, has expertise in web and software applications development in the ever-growing software development offshore outsourcing global market.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - An eight-member delegation from China's Shenyang city Wednesday visited the information technology campus Technopark here to pick up tips on software outsourcing.

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US president Barack Obama has bad news for Indian IT and BPO industry. Its as simple as that. In his speech to US Congress about economic stimulus and financial recovery, he made it clear that there will be no tax breaks for the US companies that outsource their jobs abroad. This means, the US companies will be discouraged from outsourcing their work to India and other South Asian countries. Obama also said that his Stimulus deal will create and save 3.5 million jobs. Obama declared that he had already found US$2 trillion in savings. SO this option is likely to stay for now.

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The Human Resource Management software are used to design, organize and streamline a company's human resources. The HR software can manage all the common HR functions such as compensation, evaluation and management of performance, promotions, managing relations, planning, payroll and retirement. Although finding the right HR software is an uphill task, you need to look for automated HR software solutions that has helped other organizations to mange their workforce efficiently at a much lower price. Let us look at the top 10 of its kinds. Full article (514 words) »

Kind of gives you a clear indication where Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW) is headed, doesn't it? It does give me a warm feeling too knowing Sun is so much committed to Java, a language I have been working on since 1996. The change will go into effect on Aug. 27.

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This is a rejoinder to Frank's article on the same topic. He discusses 13 scenarios. I would like to point to one simple way to spot a bad architect and also how you can spot a good architect.

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I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account. If you are considering hosted Subversion and Subversion analytics service then this review is a must read for you.

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All hell breaks loose! Imagine this: "Most of us are only pretending to work while secretly hoping the project gets canceled after you get fired by the board". Today's Dilbert is a bit of fresh air after days of stale Elbonian humor on outsourcing.

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Overseas outsourcing has transformed U.S. economy. Now some families are adopting outsourcing for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they would cost at home. Full article (534 words) »