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In quarterly reports released this week, three big India-based offshore outsourcing companies detailed sharp increases in employee head count, clear evidence of growing demand for offshore services. Analysts say this demand is increasing wages in India by double digits and raising the potential of rate increases for U.S. customers. For now, at least, competition in India is keeping billing rates stable. But analysts say that won't continue indefinitely as competition for experienced employees increases.

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Event monitoring is of interest from both a security and an operations perspective, but to date they have tended to be implemented separately with different toolsets. This joint interest has given rise to vendors and enterprises exploring the convergence of these two capabilities. Although overlaps in technologies, requirements, and processes exist, significant differences remain, which will impede full convergence indefinitely.

Your CEO still doesn’t get IT

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Microsoft eyes RFID opportunities

Emphasizing ambitions in radio frequency identification (RFID), Microsoft Corp. on Monday will announce formation of the Microsoft RFID Council, a multi-vendor group that will study requirements for Microsoft

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