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Games may be great fun to play, but developing them is no fun. There is a dark side to the gaming industry. Developers labour in the dungeons of major gaming corporations like the subterranean Morlocks in the sci-fi classic The Time Machine, working absurd overtime and enduring bad conditions to produce games for the Eloi-customers frolicking outside.

Google India Code Jam 2006, a coding contest for developers, had more than 14,000 participants, Google Inc. announced Friday and also named the contest's winners. This is the second year that Google, based in Mountain View, California, has organized this contest in India. A spin-off benefit from the contest is that it can help to identify top programmers who could be hired for the company's research and development organization.

Vodafone Group PLC Thursday announced a restructuring of its business operations and senior management, aimed at cutting costs and driving growth in emerging markets and new services.

After more than five years of operation, Pilipinas Teleserv Inc. is finally expanding its business overseas. But the Filipino-owned call centre operator, which has anchored its business on Philippine-based clients -- primarily the government -- is not too keen on looking for foreign investors or expanding as rapidly as the bigger, foreign-owned players.

Industry observers watching the IT security job market are pointing to up-and-coming areas such as computer forensics and wireless security for the hottest jobs. The better-paying positions overall, however, are going to security professionals with management responsibilities rather than simply technical roles.

In the knowledge-based economy the work paradigm of

The world of IT work has changed significantly in the past three years. Have the practices of human resource departments kept up? Do the humans in the IT department pay anything more than lip service to the policies and practices of the HR department? Is HR a roadblock on IT

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