Offshoring
Infoworld, 9/4/04:Study: Indian diaspora helped outsourcing movement
India will retain its edge due to networking, mentoring provided to businesses engaged in outsourcing
By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service October 04, 2004
Indian professionals, venture capitalists (VCs), and entrepreneurs of Indian origin helped promote India as an outsourcing destination, according to a study conducted for the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C., by Evalueserve* Inc., a business intelligence and research firm.
While other low-cost destinations are slowly catching up with India in outsourcing, the country will retain its edge because of the growing influence and expertise of the Indian diaspora, particularly in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., the study said. A key factor is the increase in organized networking and mentoring that the diaspora community can provide to businesses engaged in outsourcing, the study said.
{Editorial Note: Evalueserve is chaired by Alok Aggarwal and its COO is Ashish Gupta, both graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology. link}
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Business Continuity
Computerworld, 9/4/04: SunGard will spin off disaster recovery unit
The spin-off is expected to be completed by the end of March
News Story by Paul Roberts
OCTOBER 04, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Software and services vendor SunGard Data Systems Inc. today announced plans to split into two companies early next year, spinning off a disaster recovery services unit using a tax-free distribution of shares to stockholders.
The move will create two independent companies: one focused on software and processing services, and the other on business continuity, availability and disaster recovery services. The spin-off, expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2005, will effectively end the union that created SunGard through a leveraged buyout in 1983, the company said.
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Mobile
C|net, 9/4/04: SBC links e-mail, voice messages, faxes
By Dinesh C. Sharma
SBC Communications on Monday announced a new service that integrates voice messages, faxes and e-mails into a single mailbox that can be accessed from anywhere by phone or the Internet.
The service, called Unified Communications, has an e-mail-like interface and uses text-to-speech technology to read e-mails over the phone and voicemails over computers. Fax message headers can be checked over the phone and printed using a PC, SBC said.
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Microsoft
C|net, 8/30/04: IE--embraced, extended, extinct?
By Paul Festa and Ina Fried
Despite all appearances, Microsoft insists it hasn't lost interest in Web browsers.
It has been years since Microsoft declared victory over browser pioneer Netscape Communications, and a long time since it last released a full upgrade to Internet Explorer (IE). Now critics say the company is fulfilling old predictions that it would embrace the browser and extend its capabilities, only to extinguish it.
Redmond rejects that notion, saying instead that the long wait for an IE update is an indication of the work it's putting into the next incarnation of the browser. If Microsoft's plans pan out, it will unveil dramatic new features that will take Web browsing to an entirely new level--in many ways stepping beyond the browser completely.
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Dept. of the Obvious
Computerworld, 9/4/04: Gates undaunted by Linux
Microsoft has seen other potential threats come and go, he says
News Story by Paul Krill
OCTOBER 04, 2004 (INFOWORLD) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance Friday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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"Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that," said Gates, eliciting laughter from the audience at the museum. "I'm not saying, 'This computer will go away,' but OS/2 was supposed to kill us."
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Campaign Note
Ms. Elizabeth Spiers, 8/30/2004: Debate Questions Left Unaswered
- Vociferously. He knows what it means, but can he spell it?
- Why do both candidates pronounce "Saddam Hussein" as "Sodom Hussein"? Is that intentional? And why we're at it, Kim Jung Il? Kim Chung Il? Kim Jing Il?
- Poland? Did we mention Poland?
- Is "speaking clearly" really a good catchprase for Bush?
- Is it possible that Kerry angry really does sound exactly like Kerry reading federal tax code?
- Why are Kerry's roots darker? Doesn't Christophe know where to put the highlights?
- Wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place. But can he say it five times fast?
- Is Bush's ability to stay on message largely the result of Bush's inability to remember more than two or three catchphrases at once?
- Are these two really the only options?
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