News (20)

Offshoring giants see rapid growth

Three of India's biggest outsourcing companies have reported significant financial growth, demonstrating that the offshoring industry is showing no signs of slowing. Read more »

BEA to take on Asia thanks to Oracle

Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts. Read more »

Australia number one in Asia Pacific for offshoring

The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations. Read more »

Cybersquatting escalates in Asia

Inexpensive domain names are fuelling the growth of cybersquatting in the region Read more »

Asia/Pacific region to dominate developer market

A massive increase in the number of software coders in China and India is expected, while outsourcing and offshoring mean you must refine your skills. Read more »

India to get a look at Windows code?

India may soon become the latest Asian country to gain access to the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Read more »

Opera looks to India for emerging talent

Opera Software is opening its own office in India to take advantage of local coding talent. Read more »

Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems Read more »

China to overtake India in offshoring by 2011

Analyst group IDC predicts that in four years' time, Chinese cities will be the most popular locations for offshore global delivery. Read more »

Australia pays its way for IT managers

A global salary survey has placed Australia in the top 10 of the world's highest-paying countries for IT managers, but some within the industry are not convinced. Read more »

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Features (8)

Asia's open source hangup

One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »

Linux gains an Asian foothold

China, Japan, and South Korea recently announced that they would work together to create a new, Linux-based operating system that would end their dependency on Microsoft. Read more »

Outsourcing overseas

Sending software development tasks overseas is the latest cost-cutting phenomenon, but is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'? How can you optimise offshore development? Read more »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »

Taking developers into the interface

In the second half of our interview with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, we discuss JavaFX phones, Sun's view of Google and Adobe, Swing's appearance and just how much of a bubble the industry is in. Read more »

Tech jobs in 2004

Programming jobs are like kids and sweets -- there's never enough to go around. For software developers and other IT professionals, what does lie ahead in the new year? Read more »

Is Java getting better with age?

Scripting languages are catching on with developers, but Sun's James Gosling sees plenty of kick left in Java. Read more »

Using Perl's Finance::Quote to retrieve stock information from the Web

Looking for a way to add stock quotes to your web site? With a little Perl and the Finance::Quote module you can script this up in no time. Read more »

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