A few minutes back as we were going over a Nokia announcement (Nokia Streamlines Operations in Several Units and Functions) that’s actually about firing another 1,700 employees worldwide, we couldn’t help but wonder at the flexibility of the English language in dealing with what’s a straightforward issue – laying off or kicking out employees. Here […]
Our vote goes for Padmasree Warrior, the Chief Technology Officer of Cisco. Maybe because we think old is gold. Although a Methuselah-like 48, Padmasree still oozes sex appeal. With a cute bindi gracing the midpoint of her eyebrows, at the base of her forehead just above the nose bridge, Padmasree looks yummier than a Cold Stone […]
Loss-making Reader’s Digest Association Inc has signed a cost-cutting oriented $350 million, seven-year IT outsourcing agreement with India’s HCL Technologies. The agreement is supposed to cover Reader’s Digest Association’s entire IT landscape, spanning the gamut from infrastructure to applications. IT Support from Coolie Nations From low wage nations like India and Poland, HCL Technologies will […]
As we were poring over reviews of Blake Bailey’s biography of novelist and short story writer John Cheever in today’s New York Times Book Review and in the last issue of the New Yorker, we couldn’t help but wonder at the strong connection between great writers and homsexuality. A genetic vulnerability, perhaps? Cheever apparently had […]
Un ‘f*&#*ng’ believable. Insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in tax-payer funded bailout, is paying out over $700 hundred million in bonus and retention payments to its employees, according to the Washington Post. The feeble excuse – AIG is contractually obligated to pay the money. But U.S. courts have routinely thrown out contracts […]
The monkeys are definitely calling the shots in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Not content with beating up girls for the sin of drinking in a pub, razing churches and threatening to derail Valentine’s Day celebrations, the modern-day descendants of the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman are now turning their ire against the late film legend Charlie […]