Offshoring
Change This, 11/4/04: OffShoring: 20 hard truths about inevitabilities, pitfalls, and matchless opportunities
by Tom Peters
9. Free trade works. Period. It makes the world a safer place, in the long haul. The process is not pretty at times (sometimes long times). Those who dutifully followed yesterdayʼs rules, yet are displaced, must be helped when the “rules change.” Such help must not be in perpetuity — it demands a sunset date.
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Computerworld, 11/4/04: In healthy Indian job market, developers want it all
News Story by John Ribeiro
NOVEMBER 03, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - As hiring picks up in Bangalore, India, the city's software professionals are again acquiring the spoiled-brat image they had in the late 1990s, when the dot-com boom increased staff requirements at Indian outsourcing companies.
Demand is highest for software professionals with two to four years of experience, and many change jobs frequently for a boost in salary of over 40%, according to Bijay Sahoo, vice president for talent engagement and development at Bangalore-based Wipro Ltd., India's third-largest software outsourcing company. Wipro added 3,300 software developers in the third quarter alone.
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Security
C|net, 11/4/04: Wells Fargo computers stolen
By Dawn Kawamoto
Identity thieves may have obtained sensitive information about thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage and student loan customers, after four computers containing customer account numbers and Social Security numbers were stolen last month.
The incident occurred in mid-October, when the computers were stolen from the Atlanta office of Regulus Integrated Solutions, a vendor that prints the loan statements for the bank. The computers also contained customers' names and addresses.
The theft marks the third time in roughly a year and a half that computers housing Wells Fargo mortgage customers' personal data were stolen.
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