Ethics and Indian services firmsWhy arent we looking at the flip side?Hi,Although I agree with you that this could be a systemic problem with the Indian software industry, why is no one considering the possibility that the World Bank could have an extremely corrupt organization. WB has, over the years,...
What was going on at the World Bank? Check out this piece in the Guardian. It details how the World Bank has barred Indian services firm Wipro for four years starting in 2007. This is a result of an offer to sell 'friends and family' shares of...
The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of financial assistance for developing countries. The World Bank intranet contains documents in all the standard business applications and in every format from HTML to PDF. The search application made it difficult to access all sites across the network,...
I blogged recently about criticism of ethanol and other biofuels in some parts of the world. A meeting of over 180 national finance ministers with World Bank officials just gave the whole issue of food or fuel a much higher profile. Political problems caused by hungry...
The Financial Times reports that former Bush advisor Paul Wolfowitz, who led the Iraq War planning and was appointed last year to head the World Bank, may be giving political operatives the tools to conduct witch hunts by intercepting World Bank staff emails. The story follows a disturbingly...
Freedom of Anonymous Speech: Ross Mayfield writes of the Wikipedia debate.... Beyond this attempt to weaken anonymity on the Net, Wikipedia's open nature is also under attack. Adam Curry edited podcasting history in his favor. Big deal. It's a wiki, just edit it if you disagree and let the community's...
The U.S. advises system administrators to monitor their systems for computer attacks planned during this week's meeting of the World Bank and the IMF. The U.S. government is advising system administrators to monitor their systems for computer attacks planned this week, ahead of the Washington, D.C., meeting of the...
Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...
Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...
Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...
Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...
But... but... but... OS X is Unix! It is immune!Hmm, guess not.Now, let's list the "attacks" and then cue the double standards...1. iPhone must have the [b]worst[/b] security model out there because hackers only go after the low hanging fruit.2. I don't care [b]why[/b] no one attacks Windows Mobile, all...
Normally I'd say this is just another NY AG trying to run for higher officebut this seems to have legs. I hope Intel didn't do it - but if they did, they need to be repremanded.Great to see some justice against InhellI can hardly wait to see the M$...
Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...
Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...
A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
That Best Buy deal ain't bad at all......stop Geek Squad at the door take the merchandise pop in the Ubuntu CD's and I'm ready to go. Thanks Win 7 for the cheap hardware.Apple should be offering deals now, tooJust to steal some thunder from the Win 7 (vista 2.0) over-hype.Fanboi...
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%...
Now here's a ringing endorsement of cloud computing......"HP "wouldn?t put anything material in nature outside the firewall." "Sure gives one confidence, doesn't it? And this company is trying sell people on the cloud...but its CEO doesn't trust it? Nice. :-(Translation: We make a lot of money selling overpriced, under utilizedservers...
A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...