India might well be considered as one of the most preferred outsourcing destinations worldwide but the country?s IT industry lobby group NASSCOM feels terms such as ?offshoring? and ?outsourcing? have negative implications in some global markets.
The Associated Press reports that two men from the Czech Republic have been extradited to New York City on charges of running an international multi-million dollar Internet-based credit card theft ring. Prosecutors allege that “the ring is responsible for at least $4 million in fraud, and trafficked in 95,000 stolen credit card numbers between November 2001 and August 2007.” You can read more on Forbes.
If not anything else, global economic recession seems to have taught one or two lessons in economics to India’s IT hub. This festive season, ahead of Christmas and New Year revelry, Bangaloreans are showing “thrift” instead of the usual “splurge” while shopping. While there is no specific data, the city’s prominent shopping hubs, including Brigade Road, Commercial Street and M.G. Road at the city centre, are witnessing a change in the way Bangaloreans shop.
Tata Consultancy Services, an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, announced that it has signed a multi-year outsourcing contract with Telenor Norway. The contract includes application maintenance and development services and will involve a modernization of Telenor?s Norway?s application portfolio across its OSS, Fixed, Mobile, Data warehouse and Accounting system domains.
the local government scene under its new ownership. EDS, absorbed into HP following a $14bn merger two years ago, is on the lookout for opportunities in providing standard services to the sector, Craig Wilson, managing director, HP Enterprise, said last week.
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has attributed low investments in Information Technology (IT) to absence of cyber cime law in Nigeria.
Nakeshia Brown, aka Nakeshia Green, 30, of Rosenberg, has been convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from the theft of personal identifying information from the medical records of patients admitted to a Houston area hospital, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.
A recent survey conducted by CDI IT Solutions (CDI), a division of engineering and IT outsourcing leader CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI), reveals that higher education IT decision makers are becoming increasingly interested in outsourced services to help address key challenges and implement priority initiatives.
Just for fun I’m posting this skit on Visa customer service. Get your laugh on!
Consulting firm Frost and Sullivan has named IBM Daksh as the 2010 Contact Center Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific.
