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The stakeholders in this article are lawyers, clients, the software developers, and law firms. The social and ethical issue is people and machines, more specifically, the fact that software is replacing the work of "armies of expensive lawyers." The area of impact is business and employment. The issue here is that law firms are now starting to use this new software in order to replace spending a lot of money of many lawyers to get the same job done. Law firms are able to save their money by investing in this software instead of multiple lawyers. They are also able to save time because the software is able to go through information faster than humans are able to. Clients are also able to save their money because they are paying law firms less to get the same job done. This is a chain reaction. The software developers are also able to make more money now that this is becoming more popular because they are able to continue building on and improving the software they have now and then selling it later on. The issue is that lawyers are being replaced by this new software. A job that used to take 500 lawyers, could now take 1 lawyer, along with this new software. This is an important issue to pay attention to because eventually it might lead to unemployment, even though there are no signs of it now.

This was a pretty interesting article and I actually enjoyed reading it. You seem to have hit all the points and from the article what really stood out to me was when Bill Herr said,"People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don't." This is basically the issue that we are faced with when losing jobs. For those jobs that are repetitive is is more efficent and time saving to have a robot rather than a person doing the job. You hit this point by saying, "A job that used to take 500 lawyers, could now take 1 lawyer, along with this new software." Though I wonder if this is completely a bad thing. You say it is and important issue because it can lead to unemployment, but isn't it also the case that new jobs would arise? Would those jobs be able replace or be more than what was lost?

In Milford, Ohio the governor Ted Strickand is trying to stop all outsourcing because his two major reasons are the "threat of of a job but an IT security risk." Then it goes more deep saying how more than 90% of the workers are Indian and 7% and lower have job in America. Strickland is more concerned with the issues which are jobs, data security, privacy,and identity theft risks.

This article is about outsourcing of lawyers in India to cut costs and do work that would otherwise be reserved for those often unskilled young lawyers. By relying on outsourcing to do the petty and tedious tasks of Western law firms, lawyers are saving their time, money, and are given access to a much larger work force for a given price. The combination of these main points greatly increases efficiency around the law firm and allows the lawyers to be more focused on doing their job effectively and with more depth. People with experience in outsourcing from a variety of industries strongly encourage the use of outsourcing for the simple and mundane tasks of the business for a multitude of reasons described before that could save the company a great deal of time and money.

"A Japanese rail firm has introduced a system to check that staff are smiling enough at all times. Computerised scanners around 15 Tokyo stations will measure the smile's curvature to ensure it is broad enough."

What will the Japanese think of next?

A mobile phone-based health project is helping the Peruvian military to keep disease at bay.

A mobile phone-based health project is helping the Peruvian military to keep disease at bay.

This short article talks about how leaders of the chamber commerce (An association of businesspersons and merchants for the promotion of commercial interests in the community)(answers.com) has recommended businesses in the UK to engage in offshoring, meaning taking their businesses outside. However, some greatly resented this and stated that it was "betraying" and "killing british skills"(Luckock). Members of the chamber commerce said that this could expand the business, and make it more competitive. The primary stakeholders in this case would be, the business owners, memebers of the chamber commerce, and the people that would be given the jobs due to offshoring. This is directly connected to business and employment. The companies owned by the men that dont want to go "offshore" are the business, while employment would be all the jobs that would be offered to those who need it if only the owners would agree to it. Lastly, while it does not say what IT would be used, it wont be technology that would be very complex. Especially, if you're sending these jobs offshore to certain countries whose people might not be exposed to all the technology that we have.

This article is about the outsourcing of lawyers in India as the title says. By "draws western lawyers", its says how the cost has become cheaper for many lawyers to use Indians to do the small tasks that require a lot of time. The Western lawyers can use the Indians to save their own time and money and gain access to a larger work force, however for a certain price. With all these benefits from outsourcing the issue of globalization is involved. Western lawyers are using Indians across the world to get the work done at a lower price. Money is what these firms are tackling but also the efficacy of the work and the experience many Indians have (or the Indians learn through training). Jobs are available to them and this helps the economy of India but not the economy of America. The stakeholders thus are the Indian employees and the Western lawyers.

Quite an interesting new device for business and other uses.

I claim this article for my 2nd Portfolio!!!

oops, added it to the wrong group and cannot delete it.

"The global economic slump is prompting IT staff to snoop on colleagues, suggests research. A survey of IT workers by Cyber-Ark found that 35% of those questioned had viewed confidential information, such as salaries and redundancy lists. "

Could this be a good lead article?