One out of 10 jobs in the U.S. computer services and software industry could shift to lower-cost emerging markets such as India or Russia by the end of 2004, a top computer consultancy said on Tuesday.
Gartner Inc., the world’s biggest high-tech forecasting firm, said in a report entitled “U.S. Offshore Outsourcing: Structural Changes, Big Impact” [...]

As yet another sign of potential backlash against nascent nanotechnology, Greenpeace has issued a report concluding that the technology is developing faster than relevant social policy and that extensive environmental research on it needs to be conducted.
The report, carried out for the Greenpeace Environmental Trust by Imperial College London, explores such notions as the idea [...]

Children who have musical training also have significantly better verbal memory than children who don’t, and the difference increases the longer they study.
The finding was made by psychologists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and reported in the July issue of the journal Neuropsychology.
Researchers Anges Chan, Yim-Chi Ho and Mei-Chun Cheung propose [...]

A week without e-mail is more traumatic than moving house or getting divorced, say techies.
The findings come in a survey of information technology managers for the software storage firm Veritas which looked at how businesses have become dependent on e-mail.
Electronic mail is playing such a key role in companies that most people start to [...]

India, the world’s largest democracy, has announced that every vote in its 2004 national election will be registered and counted using electronic ballot machines.
With more than 600 million registered voters, India’s parliamentary election is the biggest on Earth.
Electronic voting machines have already been used successfully in Indian state elections. But on Monday, Indian election [...]