AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors. The deal, which is worth nearly $1 billion, calls for AT&T to deliver next-generation telecommunication...
IBM on Thursday said it will buy MRO Software in an all-cash transaction worth about US$740 million, or $25.80 per share. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. MRO provides asset and service management software and consulting to manage the purchase, maintenance and...
IBM said Tuesday it would triple the amount it spends to build out its India operations over the next three years, spending US$6 billion to hire workers and build research labs and other facilities. CEO Samuel J. Palmisano announced the planned investment during a speech to some 10,000 of IBM's 43,0...
Has India's information technology (IT) outsourcing boom peaked? There have been predictions that India will lose most of its outsourcing firms in the next two years. IT industry wages in India reportedly rose an average of 12 percent in 2004 and are projected to increase by another 15 percent in 20...
Two motorcycles collide, Ben Hur style, spilling four lads out across the roadway, slick with gray water. They pick themselves up, brush off their clothes, pull fenders and other peripherals back into place, then speed away. Not one harsh word is exchanged. Nor is there a single helmet among the lot...
With the tech industry still buzzing over its apparent decision to sell its PC business, IBM underscored its ongoing transformation by announcing today that it had landed a contract worth nearly US$1 billion to supply Internet-based telephone and data services to British banking giant Lloyds. The se...
New research from Forrester predicts that spending on IT goods, services and staff will grow 7 percent in 2005 and continue at a similar pace through 2008 -- only slightly faster than overall economic growth. This finding is consistent with the cyclical nature of IT spending, where periods of digest...
Disaster recovery is a familiar topic for most information-intensive businesses. Disaster recovery is so familiar, in fact, that many businesses have been doing it the same way for years. The typical recovery scenario: retrieve backed-up data on tapes from remote sites, rush them to data centers whe...
India's Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued a circular in May on the taxability of foreign companies that have outsourced work to India. Official notices have also been sent out to Indian IT outsourcing firms asking for information on the nature of services being provided by outsourcing orga...
As more U.S. firms contemplate whether to send work overseas, a new twist is developing that could make the outsourcing debate even more animated. India-based software firm Infosys Technologies has announced that it will be opening a business-consulting practice in the United States. The company exp...
Electronic Data Systems (EDS), blasted last fall when its stock entered a free-fall from $40 to $10 per share, continues to show signs of recovery, announcing it has been awarded a multiyear contract by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the contract, which could be worth as...
In a bid to speed development of the next generation of computer chips while also easing the financial burden of related research, IBM has announced it will ally with Chartered Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies to develop 65-nanometer chip-making capabilities, with an eye toward moving to even...
Most CIOs at some point have asked: Should I outsource this IT project? The answer can be surprisingly complex, depending on the reasons for considering such a move. According to Gartner principal analyst Bruce Caldwell, savings achieved through outsourcing can be significant -- in the 20 to 30 perc...
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