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                <title>Environmental compliance: The next Sarbanes-Oxley?</title>
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                    <description>The rules are still evolving, but RiverOne CEO Chris Smith says tech companies will need a more nuanced approach.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>January 10, 2006 6:49 AM PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Study: IT outsourcing services multiply</title>
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                    <description>IBM and EDS still lead the pack, but a growing number of firms are finding new ways to take info-tech chores off your hands, IDC says.
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                <pubDate>December 9, 2005 5:47 AM PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Indian call center worker arrested</title>
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                    <description>In a new case of alleged data theft, Indian police have arrested a call center employee in the outsourcing hub of Gurgaon.
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                <pubDate>September 7, 2005 9:24 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Indian IT leader sees China as formidable threat</title>
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                    <description>The country has &#034;created its own positive brand in IT-enabled support,&#034; says chairman of tech giant Wipro. But he sees challenges.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>August 31, 2005 6:07 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Cost-cutting drives outsourcing growth</title>
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                    <description>Companies are focused increasingly on outsourcing as a way to cut costs rather than find specific expertise, survey says.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>August 30, 2005 6:10 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Indian call center under suspicion of ID breach</title>
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                    <description>An Australian TV show claims that it was able to buy overseas customer data at an Indian call center.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>August 16, 2005 11:20 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>H-1B applications for 2006 piling up</title>
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                    <description>Employers have applied for 49,040 H-1B guest worker visas for next fiscal year, more than 75 percent of the program&#039;s annual cap.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>August 8, 2005 5:59 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>HP fattened up before latest trim</title>
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                    <description>Despite major job cuts after the Compaq merger, the company is back to its mid-2002 size. Was it institutional bloat? Offshore expansion?</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 21, 2005 7:40 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Tech skills pulling in more pay, report says</title>
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                    <description>Offshore outsourcing is no longer as much of a drag on wages for American IT professionals, according to a new salary study.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 20, 2005 6:21 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Tech job postings up in Atlanta</title>
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                    <description>Summer sizzles for techies in the metropolitan area, but listings in June slip overall at tech-focused employment board Dice.com.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 18, 2005 11:50 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Study: Not all entry-level IT work headed offshore</title>
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                    <description>And Berkeley researcher says &#034;downskilling&#034; of some tech duties, combined with training programs, may help bridge the digital divide.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 18, 2005 6:49 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Microsoft eyes cookie-cutter approach to services</title>
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                    <description>Software giant is designing &#034;standardized&#034; managed services in its bid to get a leg up over IBM Global Services.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 11, 2005 1:46 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>IT worker confidence rebounds</title>
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                    <description>An information-technology worker index shows substantial improvement from May to June, according to a new study.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 6, 2005 5:45 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>California tech job lead grows</title>
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                    <description>Study finds Golden State increased share of new tech jobs posted at major online job boards to nearly 30 percent in June.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 7, 2005 6:59 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Computer Sciences gets DuPont deal</title>
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                    <description>Technology services provider says it&#039;s signed interim deal with chemical giant to extend an existing 10-year outsourcing contract.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>July 1, 2005 12:08 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Indian outsourcing exec moves into venture capital</title>
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                    <description>Wipro CEO Vivek Paul joins investment firm to focus on life sciences and tech sectors.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>June 30, 2005 4:42 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Tech&#039;s next watering hole</title>
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                    <description>The weather&#039;s sunny and the office parks are home to U.S. companies. Is Dubai set to become a tech powerhouse? asks News.com&#039;s Michael Kanellos.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>June 29, 2005 2:38 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Coder group: H-1Bs behind women&#039;s decline in IT</title>
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                    <description>A programmers&#039; advocacy group offers its own take on a workplace diversity report by an industry organization.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>June 27, 2005 3:28 PM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>IBM signs $1.6 billion contract with NiSource</title>
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                    <description>Under the ten-year agreement, Big Blue will take over the natural gas utility&#039;s tech and business support functions.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>June 21, 2005 9:43 AM PDT</pubDate>
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                <title>Will computing flow like electricity?</title>
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                    <description>Industry executives respond to Nicholas G. Carr&#039;s contention that utility computing will evolve in much the same way electricity did a century ago.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>November 17, 2005 11:36 AM PST</pubDate>
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