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rediff: TCS No. 2 among UK's insurance BPO providers
Tata Consultancy Services has become the second-largest insurance business process outsourcing provider in the UK, after winning two deals worth 250 million pound (around Rs1,800 crore).
Network World: West Virginia's IT workers fight state outsourcing
West Virginia's IT workers are concerned that the state plans to outsource their jobs and have responded with a protest and a lawsuit.
 The Scotsman: Now BP sells its Malaysian chemicals arm to help pay Gulf bills
THE fallout from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to be felt at BP, which yesterday announced plans to sell its chemicals businesses in Malaysia.
The Scotsman: Tomkins 'winner' attacks 'cheap' sale
A FORMER boss of engineering group Tomkins yesterday attacked the £2.9 billion takeover of the firm as "disappointing" for shareholders, despite the fact he stands to
The Scotsman: Standard Life job cuts aim to end last 'mutual ties'
SWINGEING jobs cuts announced at Standard Life yesterday will bring its costs in line with competitors, after analysts branded the firm's outgoings as being "mutual-es
The Scotsman: Hardies expands north with Christie acquisition
HARDIES, the Edinburgh-based property and construction consultancy, yesterday bought a "considerable stake" in a Dundee-based rival for an undisclosed sum.
Network World: CRM: What to Consider When Choosing a System
SaaS-based CRM applications may cost less, but on-premise software is more easily integrated with other enterprise systems
Network World: Rural Outsourcing: Why It's Better in Des Moines
When it comes to total cost of ownership, outsourcing stateside to Iowa or Arkansas trumps offshoring for some CIOs.
The Scotsman: Cumming warns of 'fire sale' of UK plc
STANDARD Life has warned that UK companies are at risk of being sold on the cheap after shareholders yesterday gave the green light to the takeover of one of Britain's lar
Network World: Virginia's IT outage continues, 7 agencies still affected
Public agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to experience intranet service outages as the result of a memory card failure in a storage area network managed by outsourcer Northrop Grumman.
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·The price of a whistleblower
As German authorities contemplate paying for data stolen from a Swiss bank, the industry is rethinking its security strategies
·Business diary: Sophia Harris
Founder of the Solomon Harris law firm in the Cayman Islands says it was fortunate that it couldnot afford a big, flash opening
·The public image: Bank of Scotland
A homely campaign seeks to re-establish the troubled lender's appeal
·The woman helping to build the new China
The head of Soho China, one of the country's biggest property groups, insists that changes in government policy are the most important factor in determining the business's strategy
·The careerist: Attracting headhunters
'If you associate yourself with the best it rubs off'
·The job: Embalmer
'In two weeks you know whether or not you can do it'
·Ports think outside the container
Owners and operators of shipping terminals are responding to environmental concerns. AP Moller Maersk's facility in Maasvlakte has cut its carbon emissions by 45% a year
·Billionaire battle of the seas
As the America's Cup kicks off, Sir Keith Mills, founder of Airmiles and the Nectar card, tries to mediate between the warring teams fighting over one of sport's biggest businesses
·20 questions: Jon Moulton
An insight into the maverick of the private equity industry
·The call of the Russian investor
In a country where natural resources are the biggest lure and Silicon Valley-style venture capitalists are rare, a few investors are funding opportunities in the technology sector
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·Green light for UK IT skills school to arrive next year
The opening of a National Skills Academy for IT in the UK has moved a step closer, after the government announced it has approved the business plan submitted by sector skills body e-skills UK. In October 2008 the government gave the green light to a tech academy on account of IT's "critical" role in growing the national economy, and because of strong and growing demand for tech workers - more than 140,000 new IT recr ...
·IT gender pay gap getting worse
The IT gender pay gap is getting worse, according to results from the 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. More than a third (35 per cent) of female IT workers responding to this year's survey said they were on the bottom rung of the tech pay ladder, earning less than £25k, compared to just under a third of women (32 per cent) last year. And only 14 per cent of male IT workers are in the lowest pay bracket this year, dow ...
·Facebook, Google, eBay urge Mandelson to abandon copyright plan
Web heavyweights have hit out against the Digital Economy Bill, claiming clauses in the legislation could put the UK's digital future at risk. In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Peter Mandelson, published yesterday, representatives of eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! call on the government to abandon "measures which risk stifling innovation and damaging the government's v ...
·Shared services - how to get it right in your business
With so many businesses looking to cut costs, shared services have become a popular option. Stuart Roberts offers advice on making them deliver. I think everyone agrees that since mid-2008 the economic situation has been somewhat difficult, with all the cutting of costs and jobs.
·Plenty of life ahead for RFID and NFC
Radio and tagging technologies have loads of promise - though the applications may not be quite what you were expecting, says Quocirca's Rob Bamforth. RFID and its close cousin near field communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the conversion of mobile phones into all purpose 'super wallets' where simply ...
·Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore
This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief. See more photos from the hackathon here.
·Outsourcing:UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
Encouraging businesses to go green is good but the government must better incorporate outsourcing in its carbon control scheme, says the NOA's Mark Kobayashi-Hillary Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the outsourcing and offshoring industries.
·Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros
Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.
·Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own? November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?
·Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed
Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010?Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business. Consider standardising your systemsTake a look at what you do in the HR department and the chances are a number ofcompanies are doing exactly the same thi ...
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