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Open Enterprise Interview with Ryan Bagueros, North-by-South
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| Like the future, open source is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.
| In particular, Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free
| software coding, but free software uptake by governments - to an extent that
| puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame.
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| South America has another notable property alongside this hectic hacking:
| it's in more or less the same timezone as the US. This interesting
| collocation of capability and convenience caused a lightbulb to go off in the
| head of Ryan Bagueros a few years back.
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| He realised that sitting on America's doorstep was a postivie hotbed of cool
| coding talent, who could be employed for far less than your average Yank
| hacker. Putting two and two together – or rather, Latin America programmers
| with North American companies – Bagueros set up the innovative North-by-South
| (NXS) “near-shoring” company that aims to connect those two parties for
| mutual advantage.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=915&blogid=14&pn=1
Recent:
Guess Who's Getting the Most Work Visas
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| Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) are the only two traditional U.S. tech
| companies among the top 10. Microsoft received 959 visa petition approvals,
| or one fifth as many as Infosys, while Intel got 369.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_11/b4075062465238.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers
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| ...a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating
| that there is no shortage of engineers in the United States, and
| that offshoring is all about cost savings.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2111347,00.asp
Is There a Shortage of U.S. Tech Workers?
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| Speaking before a Senate committee earlier this month, Gates said
| that America is facing a critical shortage of tech workers. He
| recommended boosting the number of H-1B visas to allow more foreign
| tech workers into the U.S.
|
| [...]
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| "I think that has created an environment where the population of advanced
| skill workers has shrunk a lot in the U.S., because we just haven't created
| a fair system," he says. "Where if you go to other countries, you'll find
| national policy around broadband deployment, which creates a much more even
| playing field for people of all income levels to learn by and work by."
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| "We did it to ourselves," he says.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3667376
Microsoft Sending All XP and Vista Tech Support Calls To India?
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| Microsoft is sending ALL of its XP and Vista tech support calls to India
| starting March 29th, according to a call center insider
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http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/microsoft/microsoft-sending-all-xp-and-vista-tech-support-calls-to-india-245048.php
Bill Gates to address Senate panel
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill
| next week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for
| boosting American competitiveness.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6163930.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Microsoft India centre working on Windows 7
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| Designers and engineers at Microsoft R&D centre in India have a new mandate
| for development of Windows 7, the next generation operating system from
| Microsoft Corporation, slated for release in 2009-10.
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http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/business/microsoft-india-centre-workingwindows-7/09/56/296305
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