Experts warn migration rules may fuel IT offshoring
News Despite a UK skills shortfall, IT staff have not been included on a draft list of 'shortages occupations' drawn up by the Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee [12 Sep 2008]
- No IT skills shortage, just inadequate recruitment - Andrew Meredith
- What a load of rubbish - Yellowcave
Union urges caution over gov't outsourcing plans
News The Public and Commercial Services Union claims a recent government pledge to outsource more IT contracts ignores a history of blown budgets and missed deadlines [14 Jul 2008]
- Bad contractual preparation - 1000215420
EDS shareholders approve HP merger
News Shareholders today agreed the company's proposed merger with HP, while EDS dismissed rumours of a 20 percent reduction of staff in the Americas as 'factually incorrect' [01 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing giants see sluggish growth
News Despite record-breaking spending on outsourcing so far in 2008, Infosys, TCS and Wipro have reported slow first-quarter growth [21 Jul 2008]
Accenture UK job cuts to hit IT workers
News Up to 400 jobs are to be cut in the consulting group's UK operations, with the focus of the redundancies being on systems integration and technology [06 Oct 2008]
Barclays to offshore 1,800 IT jobs
News Roles in global infrastructure and service delivery are set to be scrapped in the UK and new jobs created in Hungary, India and Singapore over the next two years [15 Jul 2008]
HP to shed 24,600 jobs
News The company will cut around 7.5 percent of its total workforce as part of a restructuring programme, following the acquisition of EDS [16 Sep 2008]
NHS IT contractors to be paid £1.1bn extra
News Following contract reset negotiations, the amount paid under the six main National Programme for IT contracts has risen from £5.5bn to £6.6bn [09 Sep 2008]
Judge rules Oracle withheld lawsuit evidence
News A US judge says the software giant deliberately witheld or destroyed evidence sought in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company [04 Sep 2008]
Foreign Office overspend sees IT projects trimmed
News Overspending on two Foreign and Commonwealth Office IT projects has led to spending on other tech schemes being curtailed [08 Jul 2008]
Offshoring trend sparks rise in IT wages
News Mid-tier IT staff are seeing a rise in wages due to the skills shortage caused by offshoring and a lack of students opting for IT courses [27 Aug 2008]
TCS creates 350 UK jobs
News The Indian outsourcer is to boost its 5,000-strong UK workforce with 350 jobs at two development centres in England and Scotland [30 Jun 2008]
Councils, IBM face legal action over outsourcing deal
News A trade union is taking IBM and two councils to the employment tribunal, claiming an outsourcing joint venture broke rules on the transfer of public-sector staff [07 Aug 2008]
TfL undertakes outsourcing overhaul
News Transport for London is preparing to bring some of its outsourced work back in-house, as part of a review due for completion in September [31 Jul 2008]
Europe inks third of outsourcing deals in early 2008
News Everest Research claims European companies shrugged off the credit crunch to sign 36 percent of all outsourcing deals in the first quarter of this year [30 Jun 2008]
Jobs, Apple directors face new stock-options lawsuit
News Chief executive Steve Jobs and several directors are being sued again over their role in the company's stock-options backdating affair [03 Jul 2008]
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays
News The Defence Information Infrastructure scheme has delivered benefits but key elements are 18 months late, says the National Audit Office [04 Jul 2008]
CNET Networks UK award winner: Nasstar
News Nasstar Hosted Desktop service has been judged Business Application of the Year [24 Sep 2008]
BT, South Tyneside sign shared-services deal
News The 10-year, £184m contract covers the delivery of a number of key council services, including the development of a shared-services centre [10 Sep 2008]
BT signs £160m outsourcing deal with Nationwide
News The telecoms and IT giant will manage the building society's networked IT services for the next seven years [01 Jul 2008]
DWP attacked over delays to benefit-fraud IT system
News The Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Work and Pensions of failing to measure benefit fraud properly because of its tardiness in improving IT systems [08 Jul 2008]
