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Overseas workers brought to the UK on a Work Permit are NOT cheaper
Talkback I process work permits for an IT firm and the legal requirements are that you must pay the individual the same rate as a UK 'resident worker' or if still being paid on an overseas payroll must supplement their normal pay with allowances.
[February 21, 2007, 16:01]
Law Lords: Banks liable for overseas purchases
News The Law Lords have upheld a Court of Appeal decision that banks and credit companies should be liable for overseas purchases where the goods fail to arrive or are faulty. Goods with a value between £100 and £30,000 will be covered for overseas...
[November 1, 2007, 15:21]
Dell sets off on overseas sales blitz
News As they find the U.S.market less lucrative than it used to be, they certainly have the incentive to focus overseas," said Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds. Any increase in sales overseas would be welcome.
[April 6, 2001, 8:08]
UK woos overseas ISPs in push for a better Web
News The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles almost all of the UK's Internet traffic, is looking to attract more overseas members by making it easier for them to exchange data with British ISPs.
[November 21, 2003, 16:35]
Best-of-Breed Service Platform and Service Bus Helps Deploy Overseas Exploration and Development Integrated Information Systems
White Papers SIPC is responsible for operating all Sinopec's overseas projects related to crude oil and natural gas exploration, production and investment. The company needed to set up "Loosely coupled" service architecture to cope with the increasing number of...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
US blocks overseas ISPs from voting site
News Many of the world's major Internet service providers have been blocked from providing access to a US government Web site for Americans based overseas who want to take part in the forthcoming elections.
[September 21, 2004, 17:25]
More IT firms look overseas to cut costs
News Market research firm Giga Information Group is forecasting a boom in overseas outsourcing for the U.S.information technology industry. Critics of shifting IT work overseas have raised questions about the skill levels of foreign programmers and the...
[February 21, 2003, 9:56]
Record rise in overseas IT workers
Talkback I wonder how high skills import from India can be justified as long as there are 1000s of IT specialists UK based who are unemployed. I am sure that ATSCO knows of such people. May be the association should approach the employers and IOD to seek...
[November 29, 2005, 12:59]
China poised to impose limits on overseas software
News China has already made moves towards restricting the purchase of overseas software. China is about to issue rules about the extent to which government departments must favour local software, according to a report by The Financial Times.
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
US blocks overseas ISPs from voting site
Talkback Please announce this to the world and especially to those who think there will be no tampering with voting. I am a US citizen and believe Kerry has the definite lead. I believe Bush will stop at nothing to 'win' the election, inlcuding tampering...
[September 21, 2004, 18:28]
US blocks overseas ISPs from voting site
Talkback "The goal is to make it more difficult for hackers to deface and/or hijack the website," said Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke. What a load of crap. It's pretty easy to allow access to the HTTP & HTTPS ports and still maintain a very secure website...
[September 22, 2004, 1:06]
Record rise in overseas IT workers
News As many as 22,000 foreign IT workers were issued with work permits for the UK last year, of whom 85 percent were from India, according to a report by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCO), which extracted the figures from the...
[November 21, 2005, 15:30]
US Report: Senate bill would lift bans on overseas crypto
News "There's no mistake about it. This is strong privacy medicine," said Alan Davidson, an attorney and policy specialist with the Centre for Democracy and Technology. It makes more encryption accessible to more people and that's exactly what we need.
[May 12, 1998, 11:51]
Secure Remote Voting for Overseas and Disabled Voters
White Papers As a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) explained, the easiest-to-solve portion of UOCAVA voting is simply delivering ballots to voters. Technologies as simple as email and fax can transmit a blank ballot...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
US firm puts pressure on overseas ISPs
News Australian ISPs have doused reported attempts by a US digital copyright solutions company to force them to terminate the Internet contracts of customers suspected of breaching copyright rules. MediaForce, a US digital copyright solutions company...
[January 14, 2003, 10:18]
Americans went overseas for war news
News US Web surfers flocked to domestic and foreign news sites in March, as the war with Iraq escalated, but the traffic increase was short-lived, according to industry surveys released on Thursday. A number of US news sites, such as CNN.com and MSNBC...
[April 25, 2003, 11:33]
An Overseas Development Center for a Leading Technology Company
White Papers After the dot-com bust, telecom/networking equipment manufacturers were badly hit and the Client had to move fast in face of competition in order to retain its market share, while continuing to innovate and bringing to market new technologies and...
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
SCT Thailand Selects AVAYA IP Telephony Solution, Achieving Cost Reduction With Reliable Connection to More Than 20 Overseas Offices
White Papers SCT Co. Ltd.is one of Thailand's established and reputable international trading companies. SCT Thailand was looking to enhance its workflow and processes and reduce its operational expenditure by upgrading its legacy PBX system and integrating...
[April 28, 2007, 1:00]
One in ten overseas phone calls to be made online
News A report from the London-based company reckons the internet will account for more than 10 per cent of all international telephone calls by the end of the year 2002. Major carriers such as Deutsche Telekom, AT&T and Telecom Finland are already...
[June 29, 1998, 15:11]
Using Expert Networks to Drive Disciplined Overseas Growth
White Papers Part of specialty insurer Assurant, Inc. Assurant Solutions provides risk management solutions such as: extended service contracts for consumer electronics; credit insurance for retail loans; vehicle service contracts; and various related services.
[March 4, 2009, 0:25]
