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Eighthgrader wins spelling bee
Thursday, June 2, 2005 Posted: 7:53 PM EDT (2353 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bursting into tears, eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap of California became the U.S. spelling champ Thursday, beating...
BT CEO: Offshoring is "better and cheaper
June 02 2005 by Jo Best 'We must accept that jobs will be lost...' Outsourcing is a reality of...
Attack of the 'coffee table' books from India
by Vipin Agnihotri Freelance Writer Although India's literacy rate has moved only slightly in the last decade, the country's publishing industry is becoming such a global powerhouse that...
BPO Whiners! Wake Up And Smell Coffee
MUMBAI: Here's a big piece of advice for those in America still caught up in the outsourcing din and the loss of jobs to Indian, Malaysian and Filipino...
US, Europe expected to increase outsourcing
MUMBAI, JUNE 1: American and European companies are expected to increase their spend on procurement sourcing from low cost countries by 85% over the next three years. This was...
US gains $ 12 b from overseas students
Tuesday, 31 May , 2005, 14:43 Kochi: Indian and other overseas students studying in the United States are contributing a whopping 12 billion dollars to the American economy every year, says Chief of US Visa...
AMD UNVEILS DUALCORE CHIPS FOR DESKTOPS
AMD Unveils Dual-Core Chips for Desktops By Matthew Fordahl The buttociated Press Tuesday, May 31...
US jobs for nonAmericans
On Tue, 31 May 2005, rrc "...we need to...."? The Hispanics (including the illegal Mexicans) in my neighborhood have already done something like this by bunching up...
DESHI TECHIES UNWARE OF THEIR POWER
Desi techies unware of their power By K. Yatish Rajawat The Economic Times Times News Network...
Global service giants headhunting in India
BANGALORE, MAY 31: When Mbuttachusetts-based consulting firm Sapient moved to a new office in Bangalore last week, there was a...
Europe's troubles have just begun as India, China 'stealing' jobs
New Delhi, May 31: Europe is on the very threshold of handing the 21st century to Asia. A society...
It's party time after getting those plum jobs at the Fair
It's party time after getting those plum jobs at the Fair Rasheed Kappan BANGALORE: Nagesh Babu, a Java professional from Andhra Pradesh, prepared for a big party on Saturday. He had good...
Racial slur can't reverse business flow
HindustanTimes.com » UK Edition » Asian Diaspora » Story Racial slur can't reverse business flow Vijay Dutt London, May 30, 2005 The report that Indian call centre staff are feeling stressed...
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The fake "western" names are dishonesty and fraud. It's better if they're honest and up-front about being Hindustani. I wouldn't want to do business with a company whose employees LIE about their names...
Racial slur can't reverse business flow 4439
NeilHinduSikhKashmiri Looks like you are in same boat, Neil-ji. PUCL Bulletin, November 2002 Where will corruption take India? - By N.S. Venkataraman...
Racial slur can't reverse business flow 4440
I have worked in call centres for over 12 years both in the UK and...
WHO IS JAI MAHARAJ Racial slur can't reverse business flow
aelthric ` Dr. Jai Maharaj ` ` ` I appreciate it, "Nat", that you have posted a denial of being ` ` a liar. Sure, there can...
WHO IS JAI MAHARAJ t e r r o r i s m s u
Nusrat Rizvi Has he had a love change operation then? Nemesis being a female and all. Your leader Maharaj is loathed by all and sundry on Usenet, with...
Racial slur can't reverse business flow
has it ever occurred to you that the folks who run IT companies don't think like the above, OW India would have never taken off in IT. I will give you an example...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration 4444
On Mon, 30 May 2005, rkusenet You did. After all, you made your comment on my comment. Always have been...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration
and who decided what is a level paying field. You?? no superior atbreastude. I am just stating the facts. You guys have to know from what sort of background Indians come to work in...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration 4446
On Mon, 30 May 2005, rkusenet Well, I take it from what you said that you like the playing...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration 4447
No this is not what I meant. It is human nature to define something to advantage. Back in 1996-97, when Indians were coming to US on H1...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration 4448
On Tue, 31 May 2005, rkusenet I have followed much of this as it appeared in our printed media. The facts are that many many young people got into some kind of IT job while...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration
the above conveniently buttumes that every immigrant is working 12 hours unwillingly. From that point of view, the letter to SJMN was more accurate...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration 4450
On Tue, 31 May 2005, rkusenet In case you don't know it, there are some Americans who work more than 8 hours per day (I did in graduate school, postdoc, and two...
Blame offshoring for the negatives of immigration
of course who is denying it. May I remind that that it was americans who wrote that in SJMN letters-to-the-editor. It was...
Indians are being abused by their callers
It says in the article that the Indians find Americans more easygoing than the British. That's because the US has a lower unemployment rate than the UK. Will the...
Indians are being abused by their callers 4453
Welcome to the world of Customer Service! Sounds like these call-center employees need to find jobs that won't harm their delicate sensibilities. It's...
Indians are being abused by their callers 4454
closing I did that work for 4 years. It was a lot of fun, I have hilarious war stories of calls with irate customers. Everybody who had an...
Indians are being abused by their callers 4455
LOL. I did inbound call-center while working my way through school. I think the funniest call I got was when "Elmer Fudd" called up at 1 AM to...
Kudos to the French
French Say 'Non' To European Consbreastution Vote May Kill Third Term For Chirac POSTED: 4:52 pm EDT May 29, 2005 UPDATED...
A Snapshot of the Indian IT Industry
Just a quick look at the IT headlines of Economic Times India,a snapshot of the Indian IT industry, need we say more? 1 IT...
BPO wave sweeps Tier 2 cities
Monday, 30 May , 2005, 09:49 Bangalore may be better known to people outside of India as the place that handles customer calls from around the world...
Aussies grow accustomed to IT outsourcing
By Rodney Appleyard May 30, 2005: IT outsourcing is becoming common practice in Australia for small, medium and large organisations...
Bank of America plans BPO centre in Mumbai
Bank of America (BoA) is setting up its second outsourcing centre in India to undertake market research for its global capital markets and investment banking divisions. The centre, which...
India Seeks To Upgrade Outsourcing Image
May 27, 2005 12:18PM "A program is taking away what a person would do," said Ravindra Datar, the principal Indian analyst for the outsourcing industry at Gartner Group, a...
IT outsourcing moves to India's heartland as employees quit big cities
MOHALI, India - Bangalore is known to people outside of India as the place that handles customer calls from around...
Business development, VARs research
Hello, we are a small team of developers. At the moment we sell software components and tools (related to PDF and network communications) over the Internet, but we're looking to create a network of...
Business development, VARs research
absolutePDF is a small group of developers (two in fact, Guido and myself) based in Turin...
the myth of American supremacy
Reading this forum and arguing with some self styled Rambo Americans one gets an impression that outsourcing is a pbutting fad like low-carb diet and pretty...
the myth of American supremacy 4466
Reading this forum and listening to the propaganda being spread by some of the "Press Release Cut-and-Pasters", one gets...
the myth of American supremacy 4467
Running a bank does not require IT skills. It requires accounting and Debt Management skills. Running a website...
the myth of American supremacy 4468
If you are talking about baby-sitting a bunch of servers in an air-conditioned room, then A+ hardware certification level IT experience is about what you'd need...
the myth of American supremacy
is this a sarcastic message? I am talking about developing banking applications, like mortgage systems, using a relational databases like DB2 or Oracle, with java etc...
the myth of American supremacy 4470
Nope, just trying to determine if you were talking about developing a system or maintaining a system. A lot of that involves commercial trade secrets which they are probably not willing to...
the myth of American supremacy 4471
Only time will tell... Again, this is not a value judgment of "Indian" versus "American", but rather the quality of work. Let's...
the myth of American supremacy 4472
No--outsourcing to India is becoming a pbutting fad. Once American companies figure out that there are other countries...
the myth of American supremacy 4473
Not surprisingly, MNC's are hurting India-centric companies: 'Cognizant's Narayanan says that the dilemma faced by many clients who are looking at India-centric players is the...
the myth of American supremacy 4474
Well, considering you don't work for an MNC, and I don't work for an MNC, I think this is all an 'academic' exercise anyway; but as I stated...
India's salary growth threatens outsourcing 4475
I'm not a "basher of outsourcing" per se. I find it simply annoying that these...
the myth of American supremacy 4476
BO L. Why? So the product can be inferior? So he can pay more for labour, thereby...
the myth of American supremacy 4477
BO L. Can you name some of those 'avg CEOs'? If indeed they are getting that amt, it is obscene. But then, whats your problem...
the myth of American supremacy 4478
Perhaps that's a bit of an exageration and 10.7 million would be more like What's the problem? Nothing if you're a die-hard capitalist. If you believe in...
the myth of American supremacy 4479
BO L. That (as the article states) avg holds true for CEOs of the 50 largest...
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BO L. more than 500. YThey aren't dummy companies but ones employing engineers doing real work. you or some other disgruntled person know hw...