eastern europe in comment and analysis
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The Spamhaus Project has been collecting information on known professional spam operations for years and its weekly top 10 most-wanted list of most prolific spammers is dominated by spam gangs from Russia and eastern Europe. [10 Dec 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Outsourcing won't save you money
Comment The same has happened in the Netherlands; to an extent in the Philippines; is now happening in India; and will undoubtedly happen in China and in Eastern Europe. Salary rate rises have been consistently in the double-digit range for the past few... [19 Jan 2007]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader As the news broke you could almost hear the criminals, somewhere in Eastern Europe, counting to 10, waiting to launch a phishing scam exploiting this news. This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a... [14 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.09.06
Round-Up The great and the good of the security industry, and Microsoft, were in attendance and the debate got onto the subject of Eastern Europe being a source of a great deal of malicious code and denial of service attacks. [29 Sep 2006]
Analysis: The 3G world map
Comment GSM is, by and large, the standard across Eastern Europe although 3G licences are being awarded across the continent. As is the case in Eastern Europe, the Middle East has a wide variety of coverage depending on the wealth of the country. [08 Jun 2006]
The east Asia story
AS Analysis Despite the continued emergence of other offshore outsourcing locations - eastern Europe, the Philippines, South Africa - India is still leading the way. Indian players still loom large on the Agenda Setters poll - but this year they're outmatched... [26 Sep 2005]
Sam Palmisano
AS Profile Financially IBM is also back on track after a poor first quarter following the reorganisation of its European operations and the relocation of some IBM Global Services operations to cheaper offshore locations in Asia and eastern Europe. [23 Sep 2005]
Leader: IT skills in the UK
Leader Which means we could end up with a skilled-up workforce which must move to China, Eastern Europe or India to use their talents. The industry group e-skills UK, which sits between government, business and education to build policy on skills issues... [14 Jun 2005]
Leader: Call centre security lessons
Leader Those on the anti-offshoring side have long been citing concerns about the security of customer data belonging to Western firms who outsource IT and call centre operations to countries such as India, South Africa, the Philippines and others in... [11 Apr 2005]
Leader: Globalisation cometh
Leader Offshoring has for some time been synonymous with India but the recent trend of locating operations in 'nearshore' locations such as Eastern Europe or even as close as Wales has changed that somewhat. [21 Mar 2005]
Can India remain the offshore big shot?
Comment This week's news that the big Indian offshore IT firms are looking to set up bases in Central and Eastern Europe indicates a shift in the offshoring market. Higher costs haven't put off some Indian IT firms, though, who see Eastern Europe and the... [13 Oct 2004]
Inside offshoring: Location, location, location
Comment For UK and European companies looking at offshore outsourcing, the 'nearshore' alternatives in Eastern Europe are increasingly attractive. We will probably look at a centre in Eastern Europe to address the market in Germany," said Banerjee. [23 Jun 2004]
Enterprise portals: The expert predictions
Comment Gartner broadly agrees with these figures and adds that the indicative geographical split of spending is 60 per cent North America, 24 per cent Western Europe, with Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and minority implementations making up the rest. [15 Apr 2004]
Billionth PC, meet billionth mobile
Comment Eastern Europe has seen annual growth of 62 per cent to the end of June while the Asia Pacific region, and in particular China, continues to grow apace. So there are now more than a billion mobile phone users in the world. [06 Nov 2002]
John Lamb's Week: Summer's over - let the conferences begin
Comment The company will be boosting its evoca product at the Great Eastern Hotel, London. For further information email anne_cristallin@key3media-europe.com. The new product, conference and exhibition season is back with a vengeance and shows little sign... [14 Sep 2001]
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