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Flood us With New Careers, not Money

As most people looking for technical talent know, in the U.S. there is full employment in the tech space. In addition, it is very difficult to hire foreign tech workers as the government makes workers and employers jump through hoops...

Posted on March 2, 2008 9:47 AM

Quickorder for Starbucks

Check it out... I was scanning engadget and came across Quickorder software which enables the iPod Touch to let customers order their coffee at Starbucks without human interaction. I think this is a great idea and in many areas of...

Posted on February 18, 2008 3:22 AM

Mother of all Outsourcing Jobs

Where would the world be without outsourcing to other countries? Call center jobs, back office work… Even architecture, legal and medical jobs have found their way to India. Now, the latest market to get outsourced is surrogate motherhood. As with...

Posted on December 31, 2007 12:15 PM

Pakistan in Chaos

I swear this blog has not become a forum for Middle East views and politics but Reuters reports, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule in an attempt to reassert his flagging authority against challenges from Islamist militants, a hostile...

Posted on November 3, 2007 6:13 PM

Tata Acquires Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford

A major passion of mine is automobiles but I rarely write about the subject. I a just learned India’s Tata will purchase Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford. This is pretty big news as it puts an Indian company behind...

Posted on July 26, 2007 5:11 AM

Richard Gere in Jail?

I remember a simpler time when American celebrities were only arrested for possession of drugs. But kissing?   See: Indian court issues warrant for Gere over kiss...

Posted on April 26, 2007 11:23 AM

Costly CRM

OK so I am using a blog as a sounding board to complain. I do this often. Perhaps this is part of my unique charm? ;-) Since the holiday season is approaching I will complain without telling you what company...

Posted on December 16, 2006 3:22 PM

VoIP Ban Mulled in India

I was just reading the VoIP Lowdown blog where I happened upon an entry discussing how India is losing tax revenue in telecom because of VoIP. They are considering banning it according to the entry. What is surprising, if this...

Posted on December 11, 2006 9:42 AM

Homeshoring

There was a great article in BusinessWeek a while back titled Call Centers in the Rec Room focusing on how companies are beginning to recognize the problems associated with outsourcing to countries that have agents witch accents. Apparently companies are...

Posted on January 22, 2006 9:03 PM

India Phone Growth

I am in Phoenix today and as I woke up I came across this story about how India telecom growth is exploding. In fact a record 3.79 million new connections -- 3.51 million mobile phones and 280,000 fixed lines --...

Posted on December 9, 2005 10:21 AM

Gartner IT Predictions

Here are a few predictions Gartner makes for the future. Gartner’s pretty well-respected and their predictions carry a great deal of weight. My biggest concern is the point that is made in the report suggesting that companies are spending more...

Posted on November 30, 2005 9:54 PM

VoIP Around The World

David Sims is doing a great job keeping us posted on the world events in the communications space while most of us are shopping or just trying to digest our turkey dinners from yesterday. So while you sit down at...

Posted on November 25, 2005 11:49 AM