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2007, Oct 31
Recent public release by Luxsoft with prediction of outsourcing markets for 2008 emphasizes the near-shoring strengths will grow. The more attention is driven from Western and Central Europe to the Eastern Europe, and from USA to Canada. >>

2007, Oct 31
More small biz using offshore IT services analytics >>

2007, Jul 5
Recent conference Russoft has show the existence of interesting trend about Russia: outsourcing companies are not willing to simply follow given specification but rather wish to take part in a process of creating those specifications and realizing them. The skills of Eastern European post-Soviet professionals and schools is the ground for such trend, in spite of all the troubles of transient society. >>

2007, May 9
Being the biggest of post-Soviet countries, Russia plays her role in IT society and increases presence on a world market. The material shows benefits (like culture, skills, competitive rates) of Russia as ground for outsourcing IT projects. To mention - Ukraine is not worse as well :) >>

2007, Mar 12
Service outsourcing (Business Process Outsourcing, BPO) is to grow in a next years, states the eWeek Report. Big and small companies assume that the work still can be done cheaper this way, even if technical problems occur sometimes with coordinating the outsider. Though every case is strictly unique and outsourcing is not only economics, but ethics as well. >>

2006, Dec 28
Russia shows the will of becoming an world outsourcing leader during the next 3-4 years. The important tax changes are done in 2006, the governmental support is grows stronger and the quality of specialists is constantly improves. The year 2006 stats confirm such trend, showing increase of software export from $1b to $1.8b. >>

2006, Nov 24
"Save the TC1x00 Line" - TabletPC TC1000, TC1100
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2006, Oct 26-27
Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2006 will take place in Kiev. Among main goals is to show Ukraine a a good solution for IT outsourcing. A lot of participants from Ukraine and other countries will have matchmaking and presentation possibilities, B2B meetings. Topics covered: Business Development, Labor-Market and BPO in Ukraine, Global Outsourcing Market Trends and more >>

2006, Aug 29
Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Use Outsourcing to Attract Investors >>

2006, June 27
Accounts where drained by cheating worker in Indian outsourcing company, the note in Associated Press reported. This is already a second case and it raises reasonable questions about security management in Indian rapidly developed outsourcing industry. >>

2006, May 31
Following recent information from PRWEB the outsourcing moves from large sized businesses into mid- and small-sized sectors. The article reviews investment and financial services companies, which are highly concerned about security - meaning security is not such a big issue if managed correctly. And how is? It is moving off-site business tasks, which are only parts of the whole process. Statistic numbers, small questionnaire and perhaps a guideline is right here: >>

2006, Apr 5.
Some more additional and pretty unexpected statistics on outsourcing in the USA: Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that most of states have partial outsourcing if the field of federal human services. Call centers and customer services are the main aims of outsourcing and countries-providers of outsourced services are India and Mexico. >>

2006, Mar 20.
What do you think is the main motivation of outsourcing show-up and growing existence? Exactly! Money, as everywhere and every time :) Skills show up only a little bit later. >>
Nevertheless one should keep in mind another common rule "a free cheese is only in a mousetrap" and take logics in play while choosing right services.

2006, Feb 25.
More researches show that outsourcing trend is not taking food from american IT professionals but demanded qualification growth is the reality. Another point showed up here - political forces are the one who might be using offshore outsourcing question as promo tool >>

2006, Feb 10.
Following the prognosis of TechWeb News overall spendings might reach USD 1.3 Trillion By 2009!

2006, Jan 30.
Evolution process - more players are coming to market thus leading to concurrency. But anyway to get inside - cost is still the most effective factor to be a competitive player. Statistics shows increasing ratio of small/big contracts - small business comes into game >>

2006, Jan 30.
Indian outsourcing statistics shows around 30% yearly growth and is not going to stop. The thing is there is a lack of skills appearing and due to clever governmental decisions Indian IT market is not going to loose it's acceleration. Currently informational sector already weights 3% of Indian GDP! >>

2005, Dec 23.
Progress is keeps going and bringing new trends into global economy market as well as outsourcing ideology - it is moving towards modular services and increasing of IT functional activities outsourcing. >>

2005, Dec 3.
"The economic benefits from offshore outsourcing will create more than 337,000 jobs by 2010, on top of jobs lost through outsourcing, according to the statistics study, by economic analyst Global Insight Inc." >>

2005, Oct 27.
The condensed point of view about how to consider off-base partner and how to start partnership >>

2005, Oct 18.
Curious article describing funny idea to put IT professionals on-board of ship and ask them to work in open ocean >>

2005, Oct 10.
Site lunched in it's alpha version. With luck and Gods help we will go on.