Those information technology workers still holding down jobs are making more money this year, but their morale is suffering, according to a recent report from consulting firm Meta Group. More...
Worldwide software spending should stage a modest recovery this year, after several years of decline, according to a study released Monday by research firm Gartner Dataquest. More...
Europe's IT industry remains in the doldrums, but one activity of increasing interest to Russian companies should theoretically have good prospects - outsourcing. More...
Chancellor Gordon Brown is scapegoating the IT industry for the global economic downturn. It's time he took a look at his own spending plans, says Simon Moores More...
The IT industry in India is poised to expand massively by taking over major parts of the infrastructure of global companies, according to speakers at a London conference on Tuesday. More...
Russia has the dubious reputation of being a country where computer piracy is rife. Business Software Alliance, an organization that studies and combats computer piracy, estimated the level of computer piracy in Russia at 87 percent in its last report, published in May. More...
MOSCOW - Software giant Microsoft is giving the Russian government access to its secret source code for Windows operating systems as part of a global effort to improve information security, company officials said Monday. More...
Mirantis Senior Vice President Gary Fowler Appointed Co-Chair Of AmCham ICT Committee in Russia; Fowler Will Be Accepting His New Role in January 2003 More...
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Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov thinks it was unfair of prosecutors to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than calling him to the stand. More...
A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. More...
President Bush signed a bill Tuesday intended to make federal information systems communicate more fluently with each other, with government workers and with the general public. More...
IDC says the event could take the form of a denial of service attack, a network intrusion or a physical attack on key network assets. More positive predictions include growth in IT spending More...
MOSCOW - Despite concerns about rampant piracy, Microsoft sees a rosy future in Russia and will continue to invest here, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said Friday. More...
A 0325-million project to standardise HR and payroll systems in the UK's National Health Service is part of a radical - and risky - IT infrastructure rollout worth 013 billion. More...
Market-Visio/EDC announces an issue of a specialized analysis report on the current situation and trends of offshore programming market in Russia. More...
SEASoft 2002 will be attended by CEOs, CFOs, Heads of IT, Directors of medium and large businesses. Special emphasis will be placed on Small and Medium Enterprises. More...
Exigen, MSU Reveal Details of Alliance During Russian American IT Roundtable Co-Hosted by U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, Russian Minister Leonid Reiman. More...
Unlike thousands of talented Russian scientists, Artak Oganessian didn´t have to leave his native country to get a high-paying job with a U.S. company. Instead, the job came to him. More...
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When one American company tells other American companies that it can meet their software needs with Russian programmers, the language of American programmers may well move beyond ones and zeros. Indeed, John Miano's language goes gloomy, predicting the impending decline of the U.S. software industry if companies continue to send programming jobs overseas. More...
PWI executive briefing paper reaffirms the notion that to help mitigate geopolitical risk and drive innovation companies must implement a technology sourcing strategy that includes Russia. More...
A unique set of factors has enabled Russia for several decades to achieve remarkable technological impact. Massive government-sponsored scientific initiatives and a highly developed academic complex produced arguably the highest concentration of innovative, disciplined, prescient, creative and determined problem solvers in history. More...
Harbin, 15 June: An agreement to set up a Russian-Chinese business incubator was signed today at the 13th Harbin Trade and Economic Fair, which is currently taking place in this central city of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The agreement was signed on behalf of the Russian side by the director of the Novosibirsk technology park, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuriy Shokhin. More...
With its wealth of computer programmers and solid reputation for scientific study, Russia has the potential to emulate some of India's success as a center of offshore software development. To achieve this, however, a lot will have to change More...
Gary Fowler Will Discuss Strategy, Impact, and Environment of Global Relationships as Companies Begin to Utilize Technology Development Centers in Russia and China. More...
MUMBAI - The Indian software industry has been afflicted with "China-phobia" for over a year, the fear being that its neighbor could supplant India as the digital software giant of Asia. But the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), which had earlier issued warnings, has now said that China is not a threat until at least 2005. More...
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Last year, Russia’s offshore software-development sector did not grow as much as many had predicted, but insiders say the industry still has a bright future. More...
NDSA representatives took part in EXPO 2002 Trade Show (Tucson, USA, February 6, 2002) and made a presentation of the National Software Development Association. More...
National Software Development Association will become a partner of Software Outsourcing Summit 2002 (June 6-7, 2002, St.- Petersburg) and will help promote this event among its members. More...
More and more people turn towards the Russian IT-industry. There is a lot of advanced IT engineering. The wages are comparatively low and now young Russian entrepreneurs hope to find new customers and partners in Scandinavia. More...
Whitepaper on Offshore Software Development in Russia. Produced by the Information Technologies and Telecommunications Committee of The American Chamber of Commerce in Russia More...
On January 23, 2002 a law on Electronic Digital Signatures came into force in the Russian Federation. The EDS Law allows replacing the written form by the electronic form. More...
The Center for Global Outsourcing is pleased to announce Global IT/ Software Outsourcing Conference Opportunities and Challenges for Clients, Vendors, Researchers and Government/Embassy Officials. More...
We would like to invite you to participate at the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) seminar organized by ADMIN Ltd. to be held on January 31, 2002. More...