Posts Tagged ‘information technology’

Top Tech Gifts for the 2010 holidays

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Tech gifts have always been popular, for good reason. Top tech gifts are usually something that someone won’t buy for themselves or at least put off the purchase of. The top tech gifts for the 2010 holidays cover a wide price range and many of the people on your gift list.

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Point-and-shoot cameras

Even though anyone you’re considering getting a top tech gift for probably has a nice camera, a point-and-shoot camera can still be a great 2010 holiday gift. There are times you don’t want to haul around a large SLR camera, and a point-and-shoot such as the Sony Cybershot or Canon PowerShot combines a great sensor with spur-of-the-moment flexibility.

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11 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2011

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Outsourcing activity is expected to creep back in 2011, but things are hardly getting back to normal in the IT services space. The new year will be marked largely by upheaval - smaller contracts, cloud-related chaos, increased offshoring and decreased quality, for a start.

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Read on for more. It’s not all bad, we promise.

1. Progressive Outsourcing

The year will be marked by the inking of smaller IT services deals, many of them by first-time buyers who sat on the sidelines in 2010, say industry watchers. Providers, happy to have a foothold, will push such customers to expand the scope of their relationships over time — the old “penetrate and radiate” approach. Contract activity will “creep back throughout 2011, as the recover stutters and buyers pull the trigger on sourcing activity,” says Phil Fersht, founder of outsourcing analyst firm HfS Research.

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CEEOA was to hold the webinar ‘Presentation of ‘CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2010’

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Yesterday, December 14, was held webinar ‘Presentation of ‘CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2010’. Our company took part in this event.

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During the webinar the report authors, partners and experts presented the main research findings and discuss the development trends of IT outsourcing market in the CEE region. There was an overview of research. Olga Markova told us about Ukraine perspectives as outsourcing country an new trends in IT outsourcing.

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Is Wi-Fi killing trees? Maybe. Maybe not

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Wi-Fi may not be a tree killer after all. Or it might be.

In any case, recent headlines about a connection between Wi-Fi signals and an increase in tree sickness were apparently not the place to look for an answer.

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According to a story in The Wall Street Journal, Dutch researchers have called into question data that prompted the widespread reports that Wi-Fi signals were to blame for a jump in poor-health indicators among urban trees in the Netherlands and perhaps elsewhere.

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Why a Moore’s Law for green tech doesn’t compute

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Claiming that green technologies need to follow Moore’s Law has been called both inspirationally ambitious and dangerously misguided.

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No one will have the “right” answer on this but here’s my take: Nearly all technologies progress over time, but expecting clean-energy technologies to follow the same time scale of the IT industry, where Moore’s Law rules, is bound to disappoint.

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