Nearshore Journal

percentage of graduating software engineers are actually industry ready? How can this number increase?
Fresh graduates today are bright and trainable. However, in most of the cases they are not industry ready. This pressurises the industry to provide enormous training and re-skilling facilities. As an industry which is people-dependent and global, we need to equip our [...]

By Richard Holway
e-skills launched their Manifesto launched yesterday backed by Logica, IBM, Cable & Wireless, HP, Cisco, Quicksilva, National Grid, BA as well as e-Skills UK and the Skills Sector Council for Business and Information Technology.
You can download the manifesto here. The Manifesto reckons that the UK Technology industry employs 1.1m and needs another 550,000 [...]

The High Court yesterday ordered HP to pay BSkyB a further £70m in damages and interest, on top of £200m interim damages already awarded.
It means that Sir Vivian Ramsey, the judge in the case of BSkyB versus EDS has ordered HP, EDS’s owner, to pay a total of £270m to BSkyB. But the judge gave [...]

By Leo King
HP has been ordered to make a further interim payment of £70 million to broadcaster BSkyB, over a failed EDS software implementation.
The new order, by the Technology and Construction Court, which must be paid within 14 days, takes HP’s total payments to £270 million, over a system originally pitched by EDS to cost [...]

By Business Wire
VSoft Corporation, a global information and technology provider of process improvement solutions for financial institutions, announced today that $1 billion Public Service Credit Union (PSCU) of Denver, Colorado, selected its suite of Straight Through Image ProcessingTM services. The Colorado-based credit union elected to outsource its teller, ATM, merchant and member image capture services [...]

By Sonya Hubbard
Today’s the deadline for the many companies that are on a calendar year to get their 10Ks in to the SEC, and the folks here at footnoted couldn’t be happier. We won’t bore you with how we spent our respective weekends combing through over 900 alerts to assemble a hefty spreadsheet of all [...]

By Barb Dybwad
Does advocating the use of open-source software make one an enemy of capitalism? Yes, according to a U.S. intellectual property lobby group.
The Guardian reports that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a lobby group broadly representing the RIAA, MPAA and others, has requested that the U.S. government put countries including Indonesia, Brazil and India [...]