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Tech Giants Scramble To Track Down Workers
News Sun has about 340 sales and support employees assigned to work on the 25th and 26th floors of the south tower of the World Trade Center, but at any given moment many of them are working with customers in the field, spokeswoman Elizabeth McNichols...
[September 13, 2001, 10:25]
US Report: High Tech Aliens See Vote Go To Senate
News The bill, which has received strong support from high-tech companies, would extend the quota of H1B visas granted to highly-skilled foreign workers. Speaking at a press conference in New York Thursday, Intel Chairman Andy Grove came out in support...
[September 25, 1998, 6:54]
HP Sets Up Indian Call Centre
News The operation has not meant a loss of jobs for US workers, Sarkar said. HP is one of many technology companies that have moved a variety of high-skilled tasks to countries such as China and India, which offer technically skilled workers and lower...
[February 12, 2004, 7:35]
Gadgets, Gizmos Top Techies' Holiday Lists
News Tech-support workers, developers and senior executives all said they plan to give rewritable CD drives, the next generation of universal removable storage. In a weekly poll of tech industry professionals by the TechRepublic Community Research Group...
[November 15, 2001, 10:30]
Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News Feeling political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers, the Computer Systems Policy Project on Wednesday released a report stressing the need to keep international doors open so that domestic companies can...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
IT Workers Aren't The Net Police
News The logic behind enlisting IT tech support workers in the war against digitally distributed child pornography is similarly flawed. In the vast majority of instances, tech support workers would have no reason to look at the type of content contained...
[August 21, 2001, 11:31]
Cable Modems -- Not Just A Security Problem
News The idea is that the entire infrastructure may be stressed, and usage patterns changed, as the number of remote workers increases and the types of applications in use require more bandwidth. In addition, the sudden spike in the volume and type of...
[July 15, 2002, 17:41]
Tech Support Costing Companies
News The nationwide survey, sponsored by technology services company Siemens Business Services, found that another 20 percent of white-collar workers spend an hour or more on the phone with tech support each week.
[July 29, 2004, 11:45]
Timbuktu Pro
Downloads It's ideal for remote workers, telecommuters and tech support personnel. Timbuktu Pro remote control software allows you to operate a remote computer as if it were on your own desk. Your keyboard and mouse control the remote computer, and your...
[March 14, 2006, 6:01]
Timbuktu Pro
Downloads It's ideal for remote workers, telecommuters and tech support personnel. Timbuktu Pro remote control software allows you to operate a remote computer as if it were on your own desk. Your keyboard and mouse control the remote computer, and your...
[March 23, 2006, 2:45]
Timbuktu Pro 8.6 For Macintosh
White Papers It's ideal for remote workers, telecommuters and tech support personnel. Timbuktu Pro remote control software allows you to operate a remote computer as if it were on your own desk. Your keyboard and mouse control the remote computer, and your...
[November 2, 2006, 11:01]
Timbuktu Pro 8.6 For Windows
White Papers It's ideal for remote workers, telecommuters and tech support personnel. Timbuktu Pro remote control software allows you to operate a remote computer as if it were on your own desk. Your keyboard and mouse control the remote computer, and your...
[November 2, 2006, 11:02]
India Wins Lion's Share Of Outsourcing
News The two centres provide tech support by email and phone, and employ about 800 workers each. For a round-up of the latest tech business coverage, see the Business News Section. Business tasks sent out to India from US and other firms include...
[July 9, 2003, 8:16]
Microsoft Plans Canadian Development Centre
News The announcement of Microsoft's Canadian plans follows the failure of an immigration bill that would have expanded the number of foreign hi-tech workers that could have come to the country each year under so-called "H-1B" visas.
[July 6, 2007, 9:42]
Union Criticises Gateway Closures
News This is yet another example of workers in the high tech industry being abandoned by a faceless employer, and although the management at Gateway had never been willing to accept a union to represent its employees it doesn't mean the workers were...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
Intel To Give Employees Free PCs
News Intel announced on Tuesday that it will give free Pentium III desktop PCs and unlimited Internet access to each of its more than 70,000 workers worldwide by the end of the year. Once workers are given the systems, they are theirs to keep, Walker said.
[March 8, 2000, 10:20]
US Report: Old Cambridge Targets High-tech Success
News This year, according to a study by economic development consultants Segal, Quince, and Wicksteed Ltd.there are 1,200 high-tech companies -counting bio-tech and hardware, software and services - employing 32,000 or more workers.
[December 1, 1998, 10:18]
Tech Workers Left Out Of Economic Recovery
News Like many laid-off tech workers, Petersen says bright spots in the stock market and optimistic comments from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan do little to perk him up; the recovery will seem like a moot point until he gets a solid job.
[March 21, 2002, 16:25]
Outsourcing 'not Something To Get Excited About' - Analyst
News Tech heavyweights in the US were this week forced to come out fighting against political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers. Concern has grown in the US as an increasing number of tech companies lay off...
[January 9, 2004, 14:05]
PeopleSoft Triples Indian Workforce
News PeopleSoft intends to add 1,000 workers to its staff in Bangalore, India, by the end of the year, accelerating the software maker's plan to tap the country's low-cost labour force. PeopleSoft, which employs more than 12,000 people worldwide, has...
[February 18, 2004, 10:20]
