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A new report has labelled Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) as a recognized and mainstream outsourcing option, particularly in the financial services sector.

Australian businesses still do not trust outsourcing vendors, despite an estimated 4.7 percent rise in 2008 market spend.

Businesses are in danger of losing control of their outsourced IT projects due to a lack of internal leadership and poor business sourcing strategies.

Version 3 of ITIL, scheduled to be released late May 2007, is a significant improvement of the fundamentals. However, we at Hydrasight do not believe that ITIL Version 3 will address the underlying issues associated with enterprise efforts to standardize service management processes.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay is setting up a chapter of Creative Commons with the aim of providing easier access to educational and other content.

Creative Commons, the grass-roots content licensing system that has taken hold amongst bloggers and other content creators online, could soon be arriving in your digital camera.

The head of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is predicting a seismic shift in the balance of power in both the chip industry and the world of IT as a whole, with influence shifting from vendors to users. The move could particularly benefit the health-care industry, which is still struggling to find ways to move forward with technology.

One of the hackers who demonstrated exploit code for a vulnerability in the way the Firefox browser handles Javascript at a hacker conference in San Diego admitted Tuesday that the presentation was meant to be a joke, according to the chief of security for Mozilla.