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Indian offshore call centers 'not doomed'

Indian offshore call centers 'not doomed'Outsourcing AmericaI know there are many, many arguments on both sides of this issue. But as an IT professional. I make a point to not speak with an offshore technical support staff and to not support their corporate sponsors. - The reversal of the outsourcing...

Tags: Call centers, Investment, stock market, Corporate America, outsourcing, American Corporation, help desk, call-center

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

Behind Google's German courtroom battle

Behind Google's German courtroom battleAh how quickly things changeGoogle go from "do no evil" alternative types to trying to crush small businesses. If only they hadn't said they would "do no evil" then one could simply view them as a big business doing what big business always does, instead they...

Tags: Benefits, McDonald's Corp., Google Inc., American Corporation

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Photos: Racing at 6,786 miles per gallon

Photos: Racing at 6,786 miles per gallonWhat goes in TO making ethanol?The cost to plant the seeds.The cost to harvest them.The cost to process them into the liquid used to burn.All of these facets require oil.Ethanol is not a long-term benefit, not by any measure. It's a pipe dream....

Tags: Government, Ethanol, American Corporation, American Public, alcohol, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-05-23

Indian police make arrests in outsourcing fraud

Indian police make arrests in outsourcing fraudThat's why we don't outsource..Amen!Here we go.This definately wont be last. How many people has this happened to, due to off-shoring, that haven't been caught?Awesome!I love to hear good news once in a while.Just the beginningI had heard about this from some associates who...

Tags: Litigation, American Corporation, outsourcing, outsourcing fraud, fraud

Discussion threads 2005-04-08

Microsoft customers evaluate European sanctions

Microsoft customers evaluate European sanctionsSo much for the idea of "FREE MARKET"Yeah yeah I know this is Microsoft we are talking about. However, this is setting a VERY dangerous precedent for any person or businesses doing business with the EU. United States international commerce is about to take...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, European Commission, Microsoft Corp., American Corporation, VERY dangerous precedent, VERY DANGEROUS

Discussion threads 2005-02-25

Why China can't compete in IT services, yet

Why China can't compete in IT services, yetChinese IT Tech SupportWhy not get the chinese to do your IT support since cost is the only consideration not service or customer satisfation. Dell, Microsoft, IBM and many other industry giants proved that cheap Indian help desks provided less than adequate...

Tags: Help desk, Call centers, Chinese IT, worker, IT services, Cooling Fan, information technology, American Corporation

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

U.S. files WTO case against China's chip policies

U.S. files WTO case against China's chip policiesI can't wait to buy those cheap Chinese chips!!!American corporations need to stop whining. This is the Free Trade Globalism they wanted. If they can ship my job off to India or China, then I should be able to buy pentalty...

Tags: Free trade, Taxes, U.S. Files, chip policy, American Corporation, World Trade Organization, chip

Discussion threads 2004-03-18

Additional Resources

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Newton was right: Apple finds gravity...in climate change

So Apple has dropped out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It's the fifth American corporation to openly disagree with the Chamber's aggressive, well-funded campaigning to kill any federal legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. None of the other corporate dissenters have been tech firms. The "Wall Street Journal" refers...

Tags: Apple Inc., Climate Change, Chamber Situation, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Update: Collecting bad stories about Ticketmaster

It's like the mobA while ago, there was a "government inquiry" into Ticketmaster and their practices. The newspapers read like it was the mob against the government. And the inquiry just went away. Without government proactively acting to protect us, we are at the mercy of big, greedy...

Tags: Vertical industries, box-office, Ticketmaster Corp., government

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure

won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...

Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction

RE: Microsoft granted stay of Word injunction Still thieves not "innovators".failed to live up to his role as "gatekeeper"...In English, that translates to "We lost, therefore somebody must have cheated." Microsoft as a company clearly believes that it simply can do no wrong. They must have attended the...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, I4i, Word injunction

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls

Smart grid, demand response and smart appliancesWhen I need to explain the smart grid in a sentence, I simply describe it as the coupling of a digital network on top of our existing grid structure. What?s the big deal with doing that? Digital information on the grid gives all sorts...

Tags: grid, demand response, Smart Grid, benefit

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Snow Leopard install fails? Find a flashlight!

How would I react if this affected Windows?Come on all you Mac guys who can be found posting endless jabs on every Windows related story. Ask yourself how you would post if you needed a flashlight to install Windows and post that here!RE: Snow Leopard install fails? Find a flashlight!I...

Tags: Operating systems, Snow Leopard, flashlight, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

Who cares?'m tired of this struggle for capitalism, I'm off to Galt's Gulch.Wah, wah, wah!Americans like Franklin, Westinghouse, Whitny, Kilby, didn't need fake "incentives"!Massengill Satchel"I don?t want to come across as a crying venture capitalist " but..............Sickening. Self-centered VC story. Complaining about access to talent, h1b's etc. No mention of...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Regulations, innovation, H1B, government

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it

It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Using Best Practices to Comply With NERC Cyber Security Compliance

Electric power companies face increasing regulatory requirements, including NERC CIP, Sarbanes Oxley and others. To maintain these regulations can be costly and time-consuming. Moreover, 2009 is a critical year for energy and utility companies as The North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC regulations require that utilities be "compliant" by July...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Compliance, Best Practice, Cybersecurity, Regulations, Security, Government

Webcasts 2009-07-30

Lean and green? Which corp leads EPA's green practics list?

Kimberly-Clark. Here's a look at the EPA's top nine list. The rankings are done based on renewable energy use and conservation. Doesn't measure whether they get leather from Brazilian cattle or recycled paper shipped in from China. I'm glad to see one of my favorite beer...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-29