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Bell Labs to set up arm in Bangalore
Bell Labs to set up arm in Bangalore Raghuvir Badrinath Bangalore December 21, 2004 Bell Labs, the research...
QSoftware_Engineer_for_UMTS_=96_welcome_to_south_Germany
breastle: Software Engineer ˆ Germany Ref-Nr.:49822 Job Description XPSNET is a software service supplier, mainly working for automotive and telecommunications industry. Within the last few...
Wages Decline in Past Year
No Wage Progress Despite Three Years of Recovery As of last month, the economic recovery that officially began in November 2001...
America in The Age of Innovation
These are the type of research jobs that will be in high demand over the next several years. Combine...
America in The Age of Innovation 1088
leslie industry, Is the research done by the University of Colorado at Boulder one of vested interests with the tobacco company as well? U.S. Innovation Hurt by...
America in The Age of Innovation 1089
leslie industry, How about the following research done at the University of Colorado at Boulder - would they have vested interests with...
America in The Age of Innovation 1090
RobertR237 of your How about this: Invented in the USA: Immigrants, Patents, and Jobs by Philip Peters March 6, 1996 Executive Summary In an effort to quantify the contribution of...
America in The Age of Innovation 1091
RobertR237 of your How about this: So now you admit to exaggerating your numbers. Then It seems at least a great percentage would come from East Asia. For the past 10 year most immigrants came...
America in The Age of Innovation 1092
NerdRevenge of out How can I - when I didn't even provide any numbers in the first place? etc. Not The American thinks with his rear end yet...
The urge to merge
Mergers, with very few exceptions, result in corporations taking on huge increases in Debt Consolidation and expenses buttociated with the merger. This always results in...
Advice on renegotiating a rate 1094
Hey Bob, Yes. I'm no lawyer, and you haven't supplied the exact verbage of your contract anyway. But it's almost certain that: A: You are...
Advice on renegotiating a rate 1095
Certainly contracts have some force behind them. Certainly the job-shop or the hiring-company could try to...
Immigration may be a major cause of autism
Immigration May Be a Major Cause of Autism By Jim Bowery Version 20030613 Copyright 2003...
US Businesses Lag in IT Usage
u=-ap-20041213-aponhite-itprowess or, click the tinyURL Sweden, Ireland and Britain Leaders in IT Mon Dec 13, 5:07 PM ET By...
What is a "Team Player" 1098
And another angle: No matter how you define "team player" you mention that you are seeing this as a requirement on contract job offerings. So the question arises: How do you convince a hiring...
What is a "Team Player" 1099
In my other message I said a lot about how "team player" might mean someone that can present their ideas in a way that their co-workers can accept. Here's another part...
What is a "Team Player" 1100
Interesting question, CJ. Of course it won't mean any one thing to all of the people that use the term so there is no one "right" answer. Personally I feel terms like this are...
Share the joy by spreading jobs around the world 1101
Kudlow Fan Read the article I quote and if you have the "smarts" you claim...
Share the joy by spreading jobs around the world 1102
That is under the big buttumption that the dollar will remain strong - and it is not in light of empirical evidence on the currency market. As we decrease our production of desirable goods...
Help us choose the Word of the Year
Here's your chance to nominate the Word of the Year. Our previous winners, chosen by readers' votes, were "9-11" in 2001, "nukular" in 2002 and "metroloveual" last year. Metroloveual, meaning a straight, urban male who...
How to explain what I can do for someone programming
Note: I've made this same post in misc.business.consulting So if you read both groups I appologize. I'm in the...
Outsource the CEO! Appropriate article from the Portsmouth Herald
Outsourcing the CEO could save thousands of jobs By Phillip Robinson Knight Ridder-Tribune News Service Outsource the CEO! It's the right and reasonable solution to the...
So this free trade stuff only works 1 way
Microsoft ditched from $3.6m government deal Jo Best silicon.com November 30, 2004 The recent deal...
Beijing alarm as riots against poverty spread
Beijing alarm as riots against poverty spread From Clifford Coonan in Beijing A SERIES of riots, precipitated by seemingly minor disputes, has raised alarm among Chinese authorities, who are...
Best Western to lay off 480, move some operations overseas
Best Western to lay off 480, move some operations overseas Mike Sunnucks The Business Journal Best Western Hotels International is shipping just under 500 jobs out...
IT Operations Save Haven Not If IBM Can Help It
If you watch very carefully, the latest commercials by IBM push to have servers that IBM wants to market for "server consolidation", they say. It's...
USTR Says India Has No Right
WTO Reporter Wednesday, March 10, 2004 ISSN 1529-4153 U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick said March 9 that India has "no right...
Outsource to India, without compromising US interests
The raging debate on outsourcing of high-tech jobs to India misses the most important point: national interests and security. The problem with outsourcing is not...
OUTSOURCING Big Savings, Big Risk
CSO The Resource for Security Executives U.S. companies continue a pell-mell rush into offshore outsourcing of software development. Those that haven't stopped...
The Outsourcing of Tech Jobs & Consumer Debt Security
regarding the security of customer data in India and the rampant piracy problem in China today. The article basically states that when India and China have loose enforcement...
IMF says Indiabashing unjustified
Once again you show a total ignorance of the reality of what is happening. They don't set the price of labor at anything compared...
Accents, Wages Threaten India's Gains on Outsourcing
The accent now is on accents. India‚s much touted, English-speaking, back office soldiers who man the 24-hour call centers of multinationals around the world have been getting some...
State may be paying inflated rates on outsourcing pacts
Oklahoma taxpayers may be paying inflated rates on contracts that are outsourced to companies outside the United States for pennies on the dollar, giving mbuttive profits to the original vendor...
Near Shore: Canada Finds Gold Between India And U.S
Many companies, particularly those uncomfortable with the distance and potential political uncertainties of Asian countries, find...
Homeshoring' Keeps Jobs in U.S
When Alpharetta-based Aelera Corporation wanted to expand its software development business, Chief Executive Officer Dustin Crane began looking offshore. „Like many companies in the U.S., we were intoxicated with the idea of very low...
Why India worries about outsourcing
The accent is now on accents. India's much touted, English-speaking, back office soldiers who...
Attention Gil Bentry
The study, which examined IT salary data for about 45,000 IT workers from nearly 2,000 North American and European employers, showed that talent-retention fears, offshore...
Attention Gil Bentry
Hi AJ, Thanks for a great post! See below.... p-54202029 Literally, I have yet to meet anyone who's said...
Is America Losing Its Edge
Yeah -its true that tech career path is absent to some extent. But if you look at the US, things aren't a lot different. In terms of...
Contractors write horrible code
I'm part of an effort to develop a j2ee-based enterprise software system. Most of the people working on this project are contractors; I'm one of the few FTEs. I have...
a step by step shredding of this lunacy:However, let us buttume that the rightlibertarian
everything i read i take with a grain of salt. these guys economic system might not...
The Corporate Ghetto
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Marco The issue that should be brought up is that they participated in providing services that were questionable, all the...
another reason not to move to the USA 1131
See below... On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Kamal R. Prasad Nah, not true. Years ago I (a US guy) hired an Indian woman as a...
another reason not to move to the USA 1132
Straydog but this consbreastutional ammendment didn't exist at that time. Its not a question of...
Ugly truth about the US job situation and outsourcing
Saw this on an other forum. Am pasting the link with the other poster's summary: (This one's written by former president Reagan's deputy secretary of the...
US productivity...pretty high 1134
Straydog ..and would they still be paying extra for the airfare if manpower in china was as expensive as the US? I met an Indian businessman in transit who told me he had...
US productivity...pretty high 1135
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Kamal R. Prasad The good part is if the air carriers are US-based, then some...
US productivity...pretty high 1136
Straydog A change of topic. ..and so is the US govt. The US govt has more...
US productivity...pretty high 1137
Straydog snip If manpower in China were as expensive as the US, then they would rather get work done in the US -rather than fire off specs...
US productivity...pretty high 1138
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Kamal R. Prasad All due to the exchange rate. And, they...
US productivity...pretty high 1139
Straydog It would have. The average chinese software engineer makes $3-5000 per year. If the yuan were to appreciate by 25% as Paulson...
US productivity...pretty high 1140
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Kamal R. Prasad And, YOU need to extend your thinking to understand that trade cheaters, like China and India, can just suck up...
Religious, Political and Corporate Fundamentalism in America merge into a fascist theocracy 1142
There are many things I could say in this post, but for now I'll just comment on...
Religious, Political and Corporate Fundamentalism in America merge into a fascist theocracy 1143
There are many things I could say in this post, but for now I'll just...
Religious, Political and Corporate Fundamentalism in America merge into a fascist theocracy 1144
In a broad definition, a republic is a state or country that is led by people whose political power is based on principles...
Religious, Political and Corporate Fundamentalism in America merge into a fascist theocracy 1145
Well said, but there is something all americans can do about it. Of all the groups and...