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6 million US jobs to move to India January 05, 2004 12:32 IST India is likely to benefit from the exodus of high tech jobs from North America as over 6 million jobs are expected to shift overseas in a decade. "In the next decade, as many as 6 million jobs might be sent to India and other nations by US companies in search of lower costs and a tech-savvy, English-speaking workforce," Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a recent report. India and Outsourcing: Complete Coverage "The shift of North American technology jobs to low wage countries like India cannot...

ON CAPITOL HILL Democrats subvert war intelligence Has politicization of Senate committee threatened national security? It's one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003: Exactly who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or SCCI, as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq? The plot, authored by aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., vice chairman of the committee, has poisoned the working atmosphere of a crucial legislative panel in a time of war, Senate sources say. It centered on duping the panel's...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015893/posts Politicized Memo Creates RowWashington Post ^ | November 6, 2003 | Dana PriestThe FACT that certain unknown Democrats are focusing more on taking down the president than intelligence, while we are at war and 2 years after suffering the worst attack on this country's soil, is unacceptable and as Zell Miller said, borders on treason.   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015951/posts A Tale of Two Scandals Frontpage ^ | 11/6/03 | Ryan O’Donnell   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015092/posts Democrats use national security intelligence for political purpose http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015862/posts YOO-HOO Ds! (espec. Howard and Susan): How to use MEMOGATE to take your party back. . .    ...

BR>By Franklin Fisher, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Sunday, December 21, 2003 Franklin Fisher / S&S In a residential driveway in Baghdad, paratroops from the 82nd Airborne Division zip-cuff a suspect during a raid spanning Thursday night and Friday morning. Franklin Fisher / S&S During a large raid in Baghdad, Iraq, paratroops keep watch outside a suspect’s house while fellow soldiers search inside. The house was one of three the Company D soldiers hit early Friday morning. Company D troops did not detain anyone from this house. Overall, the operation netted 14 detainees, coalition officials said. Franklin Fisher / S&S Paratroops...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - During secret visits to Libya, US intelligence officials found a more advanced uranium enrichment program than publicly disclosed but no evidence of actual production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, officials said Saturday. They were given extraordinary access during two-week-long visits in October and December with the help and encouragement of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Khadafy who met personally with them, senior intelligence officials said. The secret dealings culminated Friday with the stunning annoucement in London and Washington and Tripoli that Libya has agreed to fully disclose and dismantle its programs to build unconventional weapons under...

<p>BAGHDAD (AP) — Saddam Hussein's capture is already reaping dividends for the U.S. military, providing intelligence that allowed U.S. soldiers to capture several top regime figures and uncover rebel cells in the capital, a U.S. general said Monday.</p> <p>The U.S. military hopes Saddam will clear up allegations that he had chemical and biological weapons and a nuclear weapons program, said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Hertling of the 1st Armored Division.</p>

Bush's Iraq Trip Cements Role As Leader By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush's surprise Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad served as a crash course on the power of presidential incumbency. While Bush tied himself even more closely to the outcome of a war that has dragged on, he reinforced his role as commander in chief before cheering troops — an image his Democratic opponents can't match. The visit to a mess hall at Baghdad International Airport came at the end of an increasingly violent month for U.S. troops in Iraq. An American soldier died Friday when guerrillas...

Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that he was forced to limit the activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee because he no longer believes Democrat members who sanctioned the partisan misuse of committee resources can be trusted with foreign intelligence secrets. Noting that committee Democrats have yet to identify the author of a controversial memo urging that intelligence data be used as a political weapon against President Bush, Frist told radio host Sean Hannity, "If those people are still in the room handling intelligence given to us by other nations so that they can undermine our Commander-in-Chief, that...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Ut., said Thursday that Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga, was right to charge this week that a memo outlining plans by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats to politicize Iraq war intelligence borders on "treason." But the Utah Republican defended the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, saying he shouldn't have to resign as the committee's vice chairman even if he's found have authorized staffers to prepare the bombshell document. Asked about Sen. Miller's comment on Wednesday that the memo was "treason's first cousin" and that "heads should roll" over the episode," Sen. Hatch told radio host Sean Hannity,...

President Bush should stop cooperating with Senate Intelligence Committee probers until the person who authored a memo urging Democrats to use committee resources for corrupt partisan purposes is fired, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. "This is a real crisis of whether or not the Congress can perform honest, non-partisan, intelligence oversight aimed at protecting the nation," Gingrich told radio host Sean Hannity. "I don't see how the White House can cooperate with an intelligence committee which has this level of partisanship," he added. "[What the memo suggests doing] violates every rule that we've had for managing...

Microsoft and IBM Announce Technology Agreement IBM Technology to Power Future Xbox Products and Services REDMOND, Wash. and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox(R) products and services to be announced at a later date. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) "Microsoft is already developing the software and services that will drive the Digital Decade," said Robbie Bach, senior vice president of the Home & Entertainment Division...

When techies consider unions By Aliza Earnshaw, The Business Journal of Portland The very notion of a labor union for software developers and other information-technology workers may strike some as paradoxical, or even ridiculous. After all, techies are thought of as well-compensated, highly skilled workers. So the beginnings of a techie labor union here in the Portland area, called ORTech, may come as a surprise to many who work with or are themselves high-tech workers. "THEY [TECHIES] THINK of themselves as highly skilled individuals who are valued for what they are," said Ilya Ratner, a programmer with years of experience...

U.S. corporate technology purchases may not be increasing in a big way, but chipmaker Intel (INTC ) certainly isn't crying. The Santa Clara (Calif.) outfit's investment in new technology, such as wireless gear, during the long earnings downturn is boosting profits big-time. How big? On Oct. 14, Intel reported that profits had more than doubled from a year ago. Third-quarter net income came in at $1.7 billion, or 25 cents a share, vs. $686 million, or 10 cents a share, in the same period of 2002. Revenue for the quarter was $7.8 billion, vs. $6.5 billion a year ago. The...

Intel easily beats expectations, raises guidance The chip giant sees its gross margin expanding in the 4th quarter to more than 60%. Before the close, stocks moved higher in an afternoon rally. Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson impress. Chip giant Intel (INTC, news, msgs) earned 25 cents a share in the third quarter, up from 10 cents a year ago and beating analyst expectations by 2 cents. And the semiconductor said it sees a big profit in the fourth quarter. Intel said it earned $1.7 billion in the quarter on $7.8 billion in revenue up from $686 million and $6.5...

WASHINGTON: Observing that India and China are "key threats" to continued US dominance in important high technology sectors, Intel Chairman Andrew S Grove has said India could surpass America in software and tech-service jobs by 2010. India's booming software industry, which is increasingly doing work for US companies, could surpass America in software and tech-service jobs by 2010, Grove, one of the founding fathers of America's hi-tech industry and co-founder of Intel, told a global technology summit in Washington via satellite yesterday.He warned that America's software and service industries, strong drivers of US economic growth for nearly two decades, show...

One of the founding fathers of the nation's high-technology industry warned in dire terms yesterday that U.S. dominance in key tech sectors is in jeopardy, threatening the country's economic recovery and growth. Speaking via satellite to a global technology summit in Washington, Intel co-founder and chairman Andrew S. Grove said that the software and technology service businesses are under siege by countries taking advantage of cheap labor costs and strong incentives for new financial investment. "I'm here to be the skunk at your garden party," Grove said, noting wryly that his remarks coincidentally fell on the same day as one...

DETAILS HAVE EMERGED of the future design of Intel’s Tejas/Pentium V processor, and of how the chip firm will present it to the world. The chip will sample internally at Intel in January 2004 and will take between four to six months to get to market. The Pentium 6 will follow a very similar schedule. The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design. The processor we believe, sits in the LGA 775 pin socket, and above...

Signatory of Israel pilots' letter says regrets signing petition By Amos Harel and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service Colonel Ran, one of the 27 signatories of the pilots' letter of refusal, in which they stated that they would not participate in operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said Sunday he regretted signing the letter, and was changing his mind. The move came after a slew of criticism of the pilots' move from government figures and from fellow Israel Air Force airmen. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking in a holiday interview to Israel Radio on Friday condemned...

Al-Jama'a al-Salafiya al-Mujahida Takes Credit for Attacking US Forces in Iraq ISRAEL NEWS AGENCY----Jerusalem......September 24..... By Joel Leyden A new Iraqi Sunni resistance organization, al-Jama'a al-Salafiya al-Mujahida, is the leading terror organization in Iraq which is targeting American troops, said Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi in a private research study just released by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "Al-Salafiya al-Mujahida is seen to be offering a radical Islamic platform that contains many points in common with al-Qaeda," says Halevi. "It views Americans not just as modern crusaders waging a religious war in the name of Christianity against Islam, but...

Court battle resumes between tribes, scientists over ancient remainsWILLIAM MCCALL; The Associated Press PORTLAND - The definition of "Native American" is at stake in deciding whether the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man belongs to scientists or Indian tribes, lawyers for both sides told a federal appeals court Wednesday. The Interior Department has fought with scientists since the bones were discovered in 1996 along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick. A group of eight anthropologists who want to do research on the skeleton went to court to seek permission. But then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt ruled three years ago...