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Techs bullish about China market
News Just as important are tax breaks, a competitive educational system, and low labour costs that are transforming the nation into one of the key stops in the product development chain. Exports will grow as well because of low labour costs.
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
IT vendors exposed over 'sweatshop' factories
News Its products may embody the latest in high technology, but labour standards in computer manufacturing can be appallingly low," said Katherine Astill, CAFOD's private sector analyst. The agency has examined their respective codes of conduct for...
[January 27, 2004, 16:50]
Indian outsourcing set to grow
News The labour and cost arbitrage arguments are clear. However, companies that move whole functions abroad could cut their costs by as much as 70 percent, he said. India has established itself at the low end -- complex projects are the test for the...
[January 29, 2003, 14:15]
The Day Ahead: Economy at a crossroads
News With productivity high, unit labour costs were restrained, declining 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a productivity increase of 6.3 percent and a drop in labour costs of 2.2 percent.
[March 8, 2000, 11:33]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Experts claim that proprietary software fees are relatively low compared with the potential labour costs associated with migrating to open source software. The UK's Labour government is to blame for the limited open source adoption by the public...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Malaysia angles for outsourcing
News India took the top spot in AT Kearney's 2004 offshoring index because of its cost advantages, as well as its depth and breadth of offshoring experience and the availability of skilled labour. To meet the demand for skilled IT labour, the report...
[September 3, 2004, 10:45]
IBM reorients the PC market
Leader With labour costs half that of the nearest credible competitor and an increasingly sophisticated skills base, there's no point in making stuff anywhere else -- and Chinese companies have correctly identified the adoption of existing Western brands...
[December 6, 2004, 12:20]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback But again You dont do that based on Low cost labour in mind , coz bullsh** is cheap in all part of the world and yu dont intent to pay for that because it is cheap . Earlier a desktop used to costs some where close to 2000 Pounds and in the last 4...
[October 20, 2005, 7:07]
Companies to spread outsourcing deals across globe
News Offshoring today is a transitionary phase in a much larger movement towards a global division of labour. The country is a good fit for offshore IT outsourcing, BPO and call-centre deals because of its low costs, its ability to scale up its...
[April 1, 2009, 12:55]
Tech execs: Green datacentres are crucial
News Energy costs rank right after labour costs for our customers who run large datacentres," Nikhil Jayaram, Cisco's director of engineering in the mid-range router group, said while speaking on a panel about green IT.
[September 10, 2008, 8:28]
India calls for allies to fight backlash
Talkback Low corporate tax rates, could proove just as bi a draw as low labour costs! Outsourcing is OK as far as it goes. What people forget istt's the 'toe in the door'. First call centres and the like. Then the next rank up, and so on until they have the...
[January 18, 2004, 17:46]
Photos: Red Hat Czechs into European development centre
News Red Hat is not the only company to have taken advantage of Brno's apparent IT skills pool and relatively low labour costs. Red Hat claims it has set up its first European development centre in the Czech city of Brno.
[January 16, 2007, 14:19]
India wins lion's share of outsourcing
News Gartner also said that while India dominates in offshore BPO at the moment, other English-speaking countries with low labour costs were poised to pose competition. India alone will soak up more than half the world's offshore business-outsourcing...
[July 9, 2003, 8:16]
ASPs tapping into lucrative B2B market
News A number of marketplaces, including Covisint, Elemica and ForestExpress, have looked to application service providers (ASPs) to host applications, or whole marketplaces, in an effort to free them from the high costs and labour necessary to manage...
[February 16, 2001, 12:24]
Rise in UK work permits sparks alarm
News Ann Swain, chief executive of Atsco, said in a statement: "This is being driven by cheap labour costs, not necessarily skills shortages within the UK. The number of work permits allowing foreign IT workers to come to the UK has increased by a third...
[February 21, 2007, 9:26]
Microsoft 'offshoring some Longhorn development'
News Microsoft is outsourcing some of the work related to its next-generation operating system to India, according to a labour group. The high-tech industry and proponents of offshore outsourcing have argued that the next generation of technology work...
[July 29, 2004, 12:55]
Few takers for security outsourcing
News Gartner said this week that the outsourcing market will grow by more than 40 percent this year, as chief information officers come under pressure to save money by moving services to parts of the world where labour costs are lower than in Western...
[April 11, 2003, 17:00]
India turns to SOA for growth opportunities
News Ray said this is about a move from "labour-based service delivery to asset-based" delivery. By reusing the functionality in applications, SOA offers the promise of cutting development costs because parts of existing services can be more quickly...
[April 4, 2007, 9:58]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 review
Reviews Dell includes an industry-standard one-year parts-and-labour warranty with the system, with mail-in service. It runs Windows XP and costs £299 (inc. With Intel's new 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, specifically designed for low-power Netbooks, you're not...
[September 8, 2008, 10:22]
Dell 2400MP review
Reviews The 1.2x zoom capability is just short of the 1.6x offered by the Toshiba TDP-T95, and as you zoom in and out, the 2400MP loses focus, so adjusting the image is slightly more labour intensive. Even in low-power Eco mode, the Dell 2400MP pumped out...
[May 15, 2006, 11:40]
