Monkeys Terrorize India Workers, Tourists

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Monkeys Terrorize India Workers,
Tourists 11/04/2003 04:10 AM

Injections Temporarily Turn Slacker
Monkeys Into Model Workers (Los Angeles
Times)

Injections Temporarily Turn Slacker
Monkeys Into Model Workers (Los Angeles
Times) 08/12/2004 06:07 AM
Los Angeles Times - Laboratory monkeys that started out as careless procrastinators became super-efficient workers after injections into their brains that suppressed a gene linked to their ability to anticipate a reward.

India Woos Medical Tourists

India Woos Medical Tourists 02/15/2004 09:09 AM

Congressional Trip to India Riles
Workers (AP)

Congressional Trip to India Riles
Workers (AP) 04/27/2004 06:50 PM
AP - American technology workers riled by a congressional delegation's $165,000 trip to India say it amounted to little more than a junket promoting offshore outsourcing.

IBM ruffles workers by expanding India
staff

IBM ruffles workers by expanding India
staff 06/24/2005 06:55 PM

As one of the IT industry's largest and most storied employers, IBM faces constant scrutiny of its workforce shifts and reductions. With The New York Times reporting Friday on IBM's plans to significantly expand its staff in India while cutting jobs elsewhere, the company once again found itself balanced at the delicate intersection of global business realities and U.S. politics.

The furor started when an anti-offshoring lobbying group, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (better known as WashTech), passed on to The New York Times a leaked internal document from IBM showing projected employee headcount growth in India this year of more than 14,000. The document, a real estate report, shows IBM's staff count in India ballooning from 6,000 in 2002 to 38,000 in 2005.

An IBM spokesman declined to comment on the authenticity of the document, which is currently posted on WashTech's Web site, or on whether the 14,000 figure accurately reflects IBM's hiring plans in India. But the company has made little secret of its intent to increase staff in India, which it frequently cites as a major growth opportunity. In his remarks to analysts on IBM's last quarterly earnings conference call, Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge said, "China, Russia, India and Brazil together grew 18 percent in the first quarter to over $1 billion. We will continue to shift investment to these geographies to better address these important markets."

It's the "shifting investment" part of those remarks that causes political strife. While IBM expands staffing in India, it's cutting back elsewhere: In May, IBM announced restructuring plans that involve cutting 10,000 to 13,000 positions worldwide, mostly in Europe. The company's overall headcount rose by nearly 10,000 last year, to 329,000 employees worldwide by the end of 2004, but its headcount in the U.S. has remained flat for several years, at around 130,000.

Meanwhile, informed IBM sources in the U.S. and India say the company is aggressively expanding its IBM Global Services staff in India: Local offices there are branching out into new lines like infrastructure services. An executive from Bangalore-based Wipro Ltd., India's third-largest outsourcer, said IBM is its biggest rival in recruiting staff, particularly experienced engineers.

"There's a growing demand for services in India, throughout Asia, and throughout the developing world," IBM spokesman Edward Barbini said.

The corollary to that is that IBM is fighting harder for business in established markets. The company startled Wall Street by falling significantly short of expectations last quarter. Japan, Italy, France and Germany all reported declining sales from the prior year's first quarter. In 2004, IBM eked out single-digit growth in the U.S., Japan, and its top European countries, while sales fell in the U.K., Germany and Italy (after adjusting for currency fluctuations). In India, revenue rose 45 percent.

Worker unions like WashTech and its close IBM watchdog partner, Alliance@IBM, are quick to link increased staffing in developing nations with job reductions in the U.S. (Within hours of WashTech's publication of its IBM document, Alliance@IBM had an action item on its Web site allowing visitors to click-and-send an email to IBM Chief Executive Office Sam Palmisano expressing outrage at IBM's hiring strategy. Subject line: " Sam - we should export you!") With salaries in those nations significantly lower than those commanded by workers in Western countries, there's little doubt costs play a role in IBM's embrace of India. But the company insists the situation isn?t so black-and-white: As other companies increase their business in India, IBM in turn needs to develop a larger and more skilled local staff to serve regional clients, executives say.

Less than half of IBM's 2004 revenue came from the U.S.: The Americas brought in 42 percent of IBM's $96.3 billion, while EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) contributed 33 percent and Asia-Pacific generated 22 percent. As long as countries like India are generating double-digit growth, those are the regions in which globally focused IBM will invest.

(John Ribeiro in Bangalore contributed to this report.)

 

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Call center workers here, new telecom
tech in India

Call center workers here, new telecom
tech in India 12/22/2004 01:41 AM
What if U.S. workers increasingly wind up on the consuming end of technology created abroad?

Terrorize Me Elmo

Terrorize Me Elmo 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Steve Doggie-Dogg says:

I saw your post on Boing Boing about the sex doll bomb scare. A friend of mine works at one of the major studios in Burbank. He works in the mail room x-raying packages as they come in, looking for bombs. A couple of months after 9-11, he got a package through that had a battery pack in the center, with sensors connected by coiled wires going out to all sides of the box. He called the Burbank police, and they called the bomb squad.

They evacuated the building and sent a guy in wearing one of those big bomb shield suits. He had a tiny video camera with him, and he poked a hole in the box away from the sensors and peeked inside with the camera. He came out of the building laughing, holding the box under his arm. He handed it to my friend who discovered it, and told him to open it.

My buddy opened it, and inside was a Tickle Me Elmo. The battery pack was in his belly, and the sensors were in his hands and feet to make him giggle. The bomb squad guy told everyone that the x-ray was a textbook example of what a bomb really looks like, and took a copy of it to use in training.

Previously on Boing Boing: Sex doll sparks bomb alert at post office, Tickle Me Elmo fur coats, This year's robot toys: Boogie Woogie Elmo.

Update: Apparently, Elmo has some history on the wrong side of the law. Widgett says, "Thought I'd throw out a quote from the toy's creator as to how this has apparently been a problem from the get-go."

"I was always sending batteries and headless dolls in the mail. I think that's what caught their attention."
-- Mark Johnson-Williams, 'Tickle-Me Elmo' doll designer, on why authorities had considered him a potential Unabomber suspect, 1997

A bank in India is targeting "sex
workers" as new customers,

A bank in India is targeting "sex
workers" as new customers, 06/20/2004 03:35 AM
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We're just monkeys

We're just monkeys 04/01/2005 03:18 PM

Jim Downing @ Smart Mobs

like a monkey driving a car

This article in Businessweek says that "the study of neuroeconomics may topple the notion of rational decision-making. According to the new science of neuroeconomics, the explanation might lie inside the brains of the negotiators. Not in the prefrontal cortex, where people rationally weigh pros and cons, but deep inside, where powerful emotions arise. Brain scans show that when people feel they're being treated unfairly, a small area called the anterior insula lights up, engendering the same disgust that people get from, say, smelling a skunk. That overwhelms the deliberations of the prefrontal cortex. With primitive brain functions so powerful, it's no wonder that economic transactions often go awry. "In some ways, modern economic life for humans is like a monkey driving a car," says Colin F. Camerer, an economist at California Institute of Technology".

Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat

I generally don't like the idea of trying to turn everything into economics. It often reminds me of trying to make music with math. This idea that we act irrationally is obvious to most people and if neurologists can help explain it to the economists, good. But I don't think it's just our economy that's being run by monkeys.

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Even monkeys wouldn't use a Mac

Even monkeys wouldn't use a Mac 03/31/2005 10:56 PM

Monkeys Wear Out Their Welcome

Monkeys Wear Out Their Welcome 11/03/2003 11:13 AM
Techfocus Nov 3 2003 10:13AM ET

Bali Monkeys

Bali Monkeys 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
Is it a g argoyle? No, it is the hear twarming, sly, naughty long-tailed Macaque monkey of Bali, creature of myth and of the Sacred Forest. It may t hink it's a gargoyle, or perhaps it's only dreaming of N otre Dame

The best thing ever, now with monkeys

The best thing ever, now with monkeys 12/22/2003 04:12 PM

My favorite song from Johnny Cash's last cover songs disc was definitely Desperado. And now, a flash artist/fan has made a video for it that is loaded with monkeys. I didn't think there was any way to improve on the song, but throwing a few chimps on horses just proved me wrong. This is even better than the song alone. [via vidiot]

The Coding Monkeys

The Coding Monkeys 05/18/2004 07:35 AM
you can read all about it & download it from here .. the application formerly known as Hydra .. SubEthaEdit: Introducing version 2.0 .. SubEthaEdit; .. SubEthaEdit .. Rock on !! .. More >

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The return of the Spong Monkeys

The return of the Spong Monkeys 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

Via Eric Meyer, at least I'm not the only one selling out. Joel Veitch's infamous Spong Monkeys can now be seen in two TV ads for Quiznos sandwhiches: We love the subs and Take a buck off (Quicktime movies). It's nice to see such awesome and uniquely British talent recognised at a global level.

Monkeys Pay for Prurient Pictures

Monkeys Pay for Prurient Pictures 02/05/2005 09:19 PM

Dispatch the Flying Monkeys

Dispatch the Flying Monkeys 12/02/2003 12:40 AM
And here's the extra special edition wherein it's annnounced that for a limited time only, I am on the job market! Yes, that's right, the holidays are fast approaching, and what better way to cope with a killer Visa...

I Hate Stock Monkeys

I Hate Stock Monkeys 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

So, okay, Carly Fiorina of HP and Lucent fame gets ousted from HP. News happens around an hour ago. Same time, AAPL drops like two bucks. Why? HP re-sells iPods. Because HP re-sells iPods and because HP's leader was ousted, ass-munches on Wall St. devalue AAPL.

What. The. Hell?

I hate stock monkeys.

Singaporeans Urged to Act Like Monkeys
(AP)

Singaporeans Urged to Act Like Monkeys
(AP) 01/19/2004 08:22 AM
AP - People in strait-laced Singapore were urged Monday to act like monkeys — the Chinese zodiac sign for the coming Lunar year — for the sake of their country.

PocketPC for Grease-monkeys

PocketPC for Grease-monkeys 08/15/2004 06:02 AM

Ind. Woman Fights to Keep 12 Pet Monkeys
(AP)

Ind. Woman Fights to Keep 12 Pet Monkeys
(AP) 04/14/2004 07:46 PM
AP - A woman who keeps 12 monkeys as pets in her home must ask county officials for a kennel permit so she can continue to live in her subdivision.

Ericsson Launched the first 3G call in
India at the 13th Convergence India-2005

Ericsson Launched the first 3G call in
India at the 13th Convergence India-2005 03/29/2005 05:26 PM
ZDNet India Mar 29 2005 9:52PM GMT

Rescuers Take 7 Monkeys From Woman's
Home (AP)

Rescuers Take 7 Monkeys From Woman's
Home (AP) 01/03/2004 07:29 PM
AP - Investigators rescued 39 exotic animals, including seven monkeys, a rat and four tortoises that were living inside a woman's two-story home here.

Making Monkeys Obsolete Online

Making Monkeys Obsolete Online 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

The Page of Generators

"Steven Savage has the turn of mind that plays with permutations, and has come up with an entire page of generators. Mostly they’re just for fun, or as an aid to imagination for gamers; but a couple of them generated material that would catch my eye in a slush ms. One is the Academic SF Generator (inexplicably filed under character-related generators), which generates fields of study...

Even better is the Action Film Trailer Generator. It’s meant to generate parodic action-movie trailer voiceovers." [Making Light]

I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's

I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Crazy day today. Twice we had to evacuate the school. Once during my history test, which was not cool whatsoever,...

Monkeys for Research: Much Coveted, and
Hard to Come By

Monkeys for Research: Much Coveted, and
Hard to Come By 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
The discovery of AIDS in rhesus monkeys in a California research center 20 years ago touched off a demand for the monkeys that has continued to this day.

Monkeys Take Center Stage in China (AP)

Monkeys Take Center Stage in China (AP) 01/22/2004 09:12 AM
AP - "Hooligan monkeys" harassing female visitors at a park. Monkey fur dyed in assorted brilliant colors at a safari park. Monkeys in the newspapers. Monkeys on TV. Monkeys on the collective brain of the world's most populous country.

The Case of the Missing Monkeys
(Reuters)

The Case of the Missing Monkeys
(Reuters) 04/30/2004 01:31 PM
Reuters - Serbia is trying to account for around 600 monkeys thought to be missing from a consignment imported from Africa, the daily Balkan reported on Friday.

A thousand monkeys filtering advertising

A thousand monkeys filtering advertising 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
A common thread between the most effective forms of online advertising is the introduction of a hyperlink to a targeted user. In this respect, there is no difference between Google text ads, Orbitz pop-ups, and DoubleClick banner ads: for the advertisement to be effect, the viewer must follow a link. The browser market is ripe for plugin that, like Vipul's Razor, harnesses the efforts of many humans to identify and block unwanted advertisements. Users have proven with the SpamNet that they are willing to flag spam for the greater good, as long as it serves them as well; browsers should provide a mechanism for them to do so. Once the browser detects a community-reported ad, it can automatically obscure it – or remove it completely. This solution is in no way limited to banner ads. When a blog comment is...

Homosexuality found among Sichuan-Golden
monkeys

Homosexuality found among Sichuan-Golden
monkeys 06/19/2004 01:33 AM
Content.sina.com - Thu Jun 17, 08:30 am GMT

BONJOURRRR, You Cheese-eating Surrender
Monkeys!

BONJOURRRR, You Cheese-eating Surrender
Monkeys! 04/15/2004 01:02 PM
They've been used to teach everything from math to social science, nuclear chemistry to English as a second language and even religio n (although opinion s vary on the value of that). The Simpsons: is there anything they can't do?

Cupid, love hearts, revenge and monkeys

Cupid, love hearts, revenge and monkeys 02/13/2004 09:18 AM
Yes, it's Valentine's Day tomorrow

Monkeys Escape Cages at Research Center
(AP)

Monkeys Escape Cages at Research Center
(AP) 08/09/2004 08:19 PM
AP - A group of monkeys escaped from their cages at a New Iberia research center Monday.

Rural India voters dismiss "Shining
India"

Rural India voters dismiss "Shining
India" 05/14/2004 04:37 PM

Two New Space Tourists Announced

Two New Space Tourists Announced 12/18/2003 04:38 AM

Colombia tourists taken hostage

Colombia tourists taken hostage 12/25/2004 11:27 PM
Colombian guerrillas kidnap up to 40 tourists enjoying a Christmas break in northern Antioquia province.

For Wandering Tourists, Help From On
High

For Wandering Tourists, Help From On
High 06/09/2004 10:24 PM
Satellite-guided carts let visitors to San Francisco find their own way around the citys sights.

British tourists die in US crash

British tourists die in US crash 12/19/2004 03:03 PM
Three tourists are killed and four children badly hurt as their people carrier crashes into a fuel tanker in Florida.

Fewer tourists going to Scotland

Fewer tourists going to Scotland 08/08/2004 03:34 AM
Visitor numbers to Scotland show a surprise fall for the first three months of 2004.
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