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- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blastsSome tech union......somewhere in the U.S. is probably cheering. While I hope noone was hurt, nor condone illegal and harmful tactics, I certainly lift a glass in support of retaining American tech jobs here in the U.S.RE: Offshore outsourcers likely...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Offshore outsourcer, outsourcing company, security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers turn cautious
- Offshore outsourcers turn cautiousCautious? Or gone?I lost my job in a Wipro outsourcing...Fortunately I had five other offers from other organizations who were happy to have me. My previous employer is struggling with issues and helpdesk tickets behind schedule as well. Make sure your contracts and SLAs...
- Tags: outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Can offshore outsourcers end reign of Big Six?
- Can offshore outsourcers end reign of Big Six?Change the gameit's all politics ;).The service economy?I find it interesting that as each job moves off shore and big CEOs get more rich we are told of a new economy that will be all ours. When factory work went overseas, it...
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore outsourcer, middleman
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
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- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky
- This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...
- Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....
- Tags: outsourcing, outsource
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- The collapse of top US financial firms is causing a dramatic slowdown in lucrative contracts among outsourcing companies in India--turning cities like Bangladore inside out. Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis. It looks like...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Indian Institute Of Management, Outsourcing Company, Wage Increase, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, jobs, skills, Saritha Rai, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain
- Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chainTough SellInfosys has been finding consulting a tough sell and that is not surprising.The top tier India vendors are classic commodity plays (see my blog http://kishoreslaw.wordpress.com for details). Given their extensive investments in capacity buildup, their interest in consulting is as a door opener...
- Tags: Outsourcing, food, consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-28
- Underwater robot moves like an helicopter
- MIT researchers have started to test a new underwater robot that can hover in place like a helicopter. The two-meter-long Odyssey IV will be able to move autonomously up to depths of 6,000 meters at a speed of 2.5 meters per second. But unlike other underwater robots, it will be...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Wall Street's Pain = Tech's Gain
- Wall Street's Pain = Tech's GainA Wake Up CallThis is unfortunate, but it should serve as a wake up call to all American investors. If you want to protect your money, you need to diversify and invest at least some of it overseas. These are hard times for...
- Tags: Frank Miller
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!Nice spin, as usual.2025? The CEO of Transocean (the world leader in deep-sea drilling) was questioned about timeframes for drilling sites to come online. He said in no case could he see it taking longer than 5 or 6 years,...
- Tags: cheap gasoline, Whoopee, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Drill, baby, drill: cheap gasoline, oil a-plenty! Whoopee!
- While the banking community chews its nails, and worries about golfing fees, there are some corporations licking their chops. And sharpening those drill bits. The American offshore oil drilling moratorium expires at the end of this month. There'll be no attempt to revive any part of it....
- Tags: Offshore, Gasoline, Outsourcing, Banking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Tags: John McCain, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Why IT mergers fail
- Why IT mergers faileds hp lay offsTry employing writers that can count.24600 lay offs 50% will be in the USA so 12300 out 47,000 is ~25%.SidetrackThe gain from a Hurd/Fiorina style merger is easy to comprehend, Murph. Combine two companies and lay off a slew of people. All...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, information technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., merger, Electronic Data Systems Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?
- Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don't always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren't always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...
- Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Drill, baby, drill--revisited
- Despite the House having approved a new bill on ofshore oil drilling, it now appears unlikely there will be a change in the law. That means the current offshore moratorium on driling expires at the end of this month. Then it is presumed the government will...
- Tags: Offshore, Oil, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Economic crisis as a technology change agent
- Economic crisis as a technology change agentProtect AmericaWe are witnessing the evacuation of the best jobs as they continue to move offshore all in the name of Corporate profits and the so-called Free Trade Economy.Free Trade isn't free if there are inequities and trade imbalances.America can and will return to...
- Tags: Real estate, Regulations, Outsourcing, Financial services, Microsoft Ecosystem, technology change agent, free trade, agent
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?
- Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?administrationya u need a new job since you continue to work writing stupid stuff and implying the wrong info "Palin administration" But i understand whom you work for is nothing more then liars.GET A REAL JOB - EARN honest moneyIke Relief Tack...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, job, Democratic leadership, Palin, tax, oil company
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?
- I'm betting the offshore oil drilling moratorium in the United States is toast. It expires on September 30th. And the rush among Congressional Democrats to pass a new moratorium bill is not likely to find much support in the White House. Today the Democrats will...
- Tags: Offshore, Republican, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration
- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integrationbest move so farThis is how we are going to keep America competitive and eliminate the pork that goes to useless employees rather than the stockholders.You missed the restocking part ...About half of the positions will be re-filled, just not...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., computer, job
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
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