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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- SaaS mashups shape up
- SaaS mashups shape upI see little added valueCombining PayPal and Amazon.com on a Salesforce platform does what for me again?If I am an Amazon.com customer I can click on the shopping cart and use my account information to make my purchases. So having a PayPal link is of limited value...
- Tags: Data centers, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Outsourcing, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Global IT Firm Poised to Enhance Security, Cut Costs With Operating System Upgrade
- EDS is a global supplier of information technology and business process outsourcing services that supports more than 3 million Windows-based devices. The company decided to deploy Windows Vista Enterprise starting with a pilot deployment for 1,000 users. EDS plans to continue its rollout to approximately 130,000 users over the next...
- Tags: Security, BPO, Information Technology, Operating System, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Microsoft Windows, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, Strategy, It Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies 2008-08-19
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles aboundSourcing Offshore...I will say up front that I represent a publisher who specializes in international business, cultural, trade and logistics reference titles. We do a fair amount of outsourcing business overseas, with in-house editors to assure consistency. We found that most companies overseas were very...
- Tags: Supply chain, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Sourcing Offshore, sourcing, logistics
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
- With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...
- Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Help Desk Outsourcing Metrics (zip)
- This e-book explains you about the challenges in improving performance in a help desk call center. It also explains you about the key metrics that can help you optimize the performance of help desk. Detailed explanation of the metrics and how to track them. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Help Desk Outsourcing, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- IT is shedding jobs--should you worry?
- IT is shedding jobs--should you worry?a few question Debok its may seem loom and doom but what about baby-boomer retirement is this a problem in the state , in canada that a known big problem. So personally i always doubt those kind of article ....With the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
- Update below: Do IT need managers need a crash course in India and China culture? My hunch is that they will as companies increasingly source to India and China. And the consensus appears to be that culture is a major hang-up. With that in mind here are...
- Tags: Offshore, China, Sourcing, India, Jason, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Channel Management, Business Operations, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Is AMD getting ready to split?
- Is AMD getting ready to split?high-end AMD vs IntelWhile I agree that AMD wants a high-end CPU to compete with the Core2Duo extreme processors, it is hard to say that this is a good course of action. Generally, it is gaming enthusiasts and benchmark addicts that actually shell out the...
- Tags: Research & Development, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?Can't trust it yetWhile seeing the tech world lose their mind via Twitter due to the gmail outage, I agree that it shows the need to not rely on a single source for anything deemed "critial", whether it's cloud, hardware, software,...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Google Gmail, outage, offline synching, Gmail outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Backup, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Service, MobileMe, Ryan, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- New Nissan technology deters drivers from danger
- New Nissan technology deters drivers from dangerMarketing ManagerRESUMENAME : YashPal .R. NayakADDRESS : 38/103 Aanand nagar, shayamal karnavati ...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Kadi, COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE, computer, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
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