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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Software Outsourcing</title>
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		<title>Smartdata enterprises, the offshore software outsourcing company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

In 1996, SmartData Enterprises Incorporation, a consulting company was formed in Silicon Valley, California.
It was three years later in 1999, the company saw the vast potential in the IT sector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/smartdata-enterprises-the-offshore-software-outsourcing-company/</link>
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		<title>Chinese delegation in Kerala to study Indian IT sector &amp; pick tips on software outsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

The officials from the Shenyang Information Industry Bureau (SIIB) said they would study Kerala's software outsourcing services to set up similar parks back home.
'We want to study and make use of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/chinese-team-in-kerala-to-study-it-sector/</link>
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		<title>No Tax Breaks for US Firms That Outsource Their Jobs Abroad: Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/no-tax-breaks-for-us-firms-that-outsource-their-jobs-abroad-obama/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 HRM Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-hrm-software/</link>
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		<title>Sun To Change Stock Ticker Symbol to JAVA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. 

"The Java brand and technology have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-to-change-stock-ticker-symbol-to-java/</link>
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		<title>One Simple Way To Spot Bad Architects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

A bad architect will inevitably show lack of practical knowledge and use specifications and authorities to justify his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/one-simple-way-to-spot-non-coding-architects/</link>
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		<title>Software Review: Hosted Subversion Analytics Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

What is hosted Subversion?
A service which hosts your subversion repository for a monthly fee. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/software-review-hosted-subversion-analytics-service/</link>
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		<title>When An Engineer Speaks Honestly To Management&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

Here's an idea for Scott Adams. How about outsourcing your cartoons? I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/when-an-engineer-speaks-honestly-to-management/</link>
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		<title>Personal Outsourcing: Outsource Your To Do List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

When David San Filippo decided to create a tribute video in honor of his sister's wedding, he could have gotten a recommendation from a friend or looked up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/personal-outsourcing-outsource-your-to-do-list/</link>
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		<title>5 Tips for Bulk Data Processing Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are currently processing huge amount of sensitive corporate data for a Fortune 500 company as the first phase of a project. You have to be very careful in data processing, much more than any standard programming effort. Here are few tips you may find useful when programming to process sensitive data in bulk. Get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-tips-for-bulk-data-processing-programming/</link>
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		<title>Business Trip To USA, Mailing Problems with Translator Plugin Pro etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going on a business trip to USA, tentatively on 24th of November. I will be around Carlsbad, California. The trip is for 10 days (including 3 days of travelling). I will be doing what I love to do most - envisioning and architecting next generation (read Web 3.0) web applications for my (S&#038;P [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/business-trip-to-usa-mailing-problems-with-translator-plugin-pro-etc/</link>
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		<title>Guide To IT Entrepreneurship in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today. The presentation may be slightly cryptic to some as there are not much notes to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-it-entrepreneurship-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Call Center Girl Defrauds $4500 For &#8220;Fun&#8221; Using Stolen Credit Cards Details of Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500.

The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/call-center-girl-defrauds-4000-for-fun-using-stolen-credit-cards-of-clients/</link>
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		<title>Using RentACoder To Outsource Spam Software Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RenACoder is used to outsource projects at riduculously low prices. RentACoder, in my experience, often contains dubious project postings which are clearly for unethical purposes. Today's project stands out for its clarity of purpose - to subvert Yahoo Mail's spam prevention techniques.

I need a programme that can load yahoo captcha images and tell me the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/using-rentacoder-to-outsource-spam-software-development/</link>
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		<title>Rising Salaries and Lowering Quality Threatens Indian IT Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever rising salaries and poor quality of manpower are prompting foreign firms to shut their outsourcing operations in India.

U.S. based Apple Computer and software maker Pervasive have been joined by Powergen, a British subsidiary of German energy supplier E.ON, in announcing their exit from Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of Indian IT industry.
Stating that the potential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rising-salaries-and-lowering-quality-threatens-indian-it-industry/</link>
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		<title>IBM is Spending 6 Billion USD For Indian Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM is spending 6 billion USD in the next three years to extend and improve its Indian operations. In the last three years IBM has already spent  2 billion dollars in India.

IBM chief executive and chairman Sam Palmisano, speaking in Bangalore, said: "India and other emerging economies are increasingly (becoming) important part of IBM's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-is-spending-6-billion-usd-for-indian-operations/</link>
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		<title>Global Outsourcing Business Creates Record in Q1 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first quarter of 2006 has seen the global outsourcing industry posting a record performance. 
The segment saw $22.7 billion in total contract value (TCV) for contracts valued at $50 million or more, up 173% y-o-y, comprising a record number of 83 outsourcing transactions, according to TPI Index, a quarterly report on the state of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/global-outsourcing-business-creates-record-in-q1-2006/</link>
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		<title>More Panic on Outsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another tale of panic over outsourcing. 
In case you've been worrying about how the war in Iraq will end, or the coming of avian flu, or the extinction of the universe as we drift into the cosmic void, well, relax. Here's something you should really fret about: the future of the U.S. economy in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/more-panic-on-outsourcing/</link>
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		<title>How To Develop Automated Temparature Tracking for Hospitals And Buildings (Hardware and Software)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview
This is a detailed project proposal along with software system architecture which will give you a clear understanding of the hardware requirements and software design required to automate temperature tracking in Hospitals and other buildings. This shows a highly scalable, low-cost architecture using low-cost temperature sensors from Dallas Semiconductor.

Motivation
Temperature automation enables:

Maintenance of optimum temperature thereby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-develop-automated-temparature-tracking-for-hospitals-and-buildings-hardware-and-software/</link>
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		<title>Indian Oursourcing Industry Facing Shortage of Skilled Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Industry experts at the meeting of Nasscom, India’s outsourcing alliance, said on Thursday that skills shortage was the biggest threat to the outsourcing industry’s blazing growth.

From ground zero I am observing several interesting effects of this shortage. For example one lady worked for us as a trainee. I was forced to let her go for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/indian-oursourcing-industry-facing-shortage-of-skilled-workers/</link>
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		<title>WSJ Plagiarizes My Blog Article?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to see the article Some Students Use Net To Hire Experts to Do Their School Work on WSJ by  Lee Gomes. I had written about exactly the same topic on 20th October 2005. My article was titled:
Outsourcing Homework to India. It talks about the phenomenon of outsourcing homework and specifically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wsj-plagiarizes-my-blog-article/</link>
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		<title>Infosys Reported 31 per cent Rise in Q3 Net Profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Major Indian outsourcing outfit Infosys Technologies reported on Wednesday a 31 per cent rise in its Q3 net profit, while meeting the expectations for the quarter.

The company said that its net profit surged to Rs 642 crore in the quarter ended December 31, 2005, as compared to Rs 496 crore in the year-ago quarter. Infosys' [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/infosys-reported-31-per-cent-rise-in-q3-net-profit/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Investing $1.7 Billion in 4 years; Recruiting 3000 Professionals in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft plans to make India a hub for research, product and applications development. It announced plans for investing $1.7 billion over the next four years, and increasing local headcount by 3,000 to 7,000-level. 

The investment will be in line with the growing importance of India’s role in the global economy, as well as its emerging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-investing-17-billion-in-4-years-recruiting-3000-professionals-in-india/</link>
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		<title>Outsource Development of Complete Book Store Website (mini-Ebay) for 75$</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rentacoder is where companies outsource their software projects. Long time back I dabbled with RentACoder, got 10 out 10 on all the projects and so I still retain a high ranking and often get invited to do projects. 

BTW: The link above also contains an outdated picture of mine.
This is one such project I got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/outsource-development-of-complete-book-store-website-mini-ebay-for-75/</link>
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		<title>Samsung &amp; LG Join Indian Outsourcing Bandwagon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Korea's two global electronics makers, have reduced their Indian workforce in India, opting instead to outsource its operations to India.

"We work project-by-project, so we move between India and South Korea. We don't stay here for a long time," said Joe Antony Lawrence, software engineer from Samsung's Indian branch.
Lawrence estimates that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/samsung-lg-join-indian-outsourcing-bandwagon/</link>
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		<title>Software Outsourcing in China Hindered by IT Talent Shortage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talent shortage will impede the development of China's outsourcing industry, despite the optimistic prediction on China's IT outsourcing industry in the coming ten years predicted Qu Zhonghua, a senior program manager of IBM China's Shenzhen branch, at the 11th Joint International Computer Conference (JICC 2005) held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

The rapid growth of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/software-outsourcing-in-china-hindered-by-it-talent-shortage/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Forbes Time Capsule&#8221; And Outsourcing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BoingBoing reported: "Forbes has a free service that lets you send an email to yourself and have it arrive in 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years."

The site looks like Forbes site because it has same template of text and images as is available in Forbes. 
However the URL to the site is forbes.codefix.net/capsule/


Can you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/forbes-time-capsule-and-outsourcing/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing Homework to India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogger Rajneesh thinks its funny to outsource homework to India. In reality homework do get outsourced to India rather frequently.


If you glance at rentacoder you will find several homework assigments up for outsourcing. In fact they have a Personal Project / Homework Help category. At present there are 88 open jobs in Homework category.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/outsourcing-homework-to-india/</link>
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		<title>Software Testing: The next outsourcing boom sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian Outsourcing industry is increasingly turning towards software testing. 
In fact we have started providing software testing services to customers from 2005.
Reuters reports on companies like Wipro, Infosys and Aztech who are experiencing boom in this sector.

C.P. Gangadharaiah, vice-president of testing services at Wipro, said his team has jumped four-fold to 2,400 in two years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/software-testing-the-next-outsourcing-boom-sector/</link>
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		<title>Work for 2$ an hour as an independent contractor in a foreign country?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this strange Blog entry from someone mentioning an US company which is *not hiring* US citizens. The post sounded like it was keeping a list of such companies! Anyway that sounded bad.

So I took a look at the job posting. 
So here is my thought. Is there anyone willing to work as an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/work-for-2-an-hour-as-an-independent-contractor-in-a-foreign-country/</link>
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		<title>New opportunities: Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize - The New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like new opportunities for the Java industry.

The New York Times > Business > Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize

Across the ideological spectrum, health care experts and politicians agree that the nation's hodgepodge of paper medical files needs to move into the digital era, so that eventually each person has an electronic health record that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-opportunities-health-industry-under-pressure-to-computerize-the-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing: Curse or boon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lets take a look at outsourcing from a global perspective.
I have outsourced work and now provide outsourcing services.
Why? I have seen a need in the market for high quaility work done at competitive price, more so when the economy is down. It would be a strategic blunder for any corporation today not to consider outsourcing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/outsourcing-curse-or-boon/</link>
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