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A Texas company has decided to duke it out with IBM in India. Electronic Data Systems is located in Plano, TX. Mphasis is located in India's silicon valley - Bangalore. After IBM announced its increased interest in India, EDS decided to show just how much interest they have in the country as well - to the tune of $380 million. Compare that to the $6 billion that IBM has pledged to India, and I think IBM hardly noticed EDS' gesture. Where do these companies get this money? EDS bought 52% of Mphasis shares. Their goal - to add overseas jobs...

NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the U.K. government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local press as the biggest computer crash in government history. The DWP was carrying out a "routine software upgrade" on Monday when the system crashed, leaving around 80% of the department's 100,000 desk machines disrupted or completely shut down, a DWP spokeswoman said today. The problems lasted through most of yesterday, but the "majority of our...

PLANO - The complex of bunkerlike buildings doesn't look like much from the outside. The casual observer wouldn't know that the walls are designed to fall outward in case of a fire or an explosion. That the berms that look like landscaping are designed to keep car bombs away. That entry into certain rooms requires biometric scanning of fingerprints or retinas. All this security is here because much of the vital data for some of the world's biggest companies is here. This is the other side of offshoring. From this center in Plano, Electronic Data Systems monitors the computer networks...

BLASPHEMOUS EUCHARIST HELD AT EPISCOPAL DIVINITY SCHOOL The Queer Christ: Transforming Anger, Making Justice-love. A Community Eucharist was held at Episcopal Divinity School February 19. CAMBRIDGE, MA--A community Eucharist on the theme of "The Queer Christ: Transforming Anger, Making Justice-Love" was held on Thursday, February 19, at 8:30 am in St. John's Memorial Chapel, Episcopal Divinity School. Planned by the seminary's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students, alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and friends, the service began with a "parade of anger" which marched between a row of wooden crosses on which hung photographs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people who...

Don't know if there's anything here, but in trying to get information about Ed Shohat, quite an intriguing web is revealed. He's the attorney for the alleged "maid" to Rush Limbaugh who's reported turning him in for illegal prescription drug purchasing. His Democrat Party ties are known .. but there's more. Shohat is also the attorney for Eduardo and Hector Orlansky, whose financial intrigue is described here: Miami Herald Article about Espirto Santo Bank and the Orlansky brothers It just show happens that Espirito Santo Bank formed a partnership with the Orlansky brothers for the purpose of funding their lucrative...

The new Electronic Data System office in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is half a world away from company headquarters in Plano, Tex. Getting to this Indian office requires a bumpy two-hour drive from downtown Mumbai. At every stoplight women dressed in rags and holding emaciated, dull-eyed infants tap car windows to beg. In the slums lining the roads, thousands of people live crammed into dirt-floored rooms, sheltered from monsoon rains by plastic sheets. At the end of the drive is a heavily guarded, new office tower that rises above the slums. This is where Amit, 24, works. "This is Andy. How...

On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport. The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance, took a lift to the third floor of the Charles Ulm building in Link Road, next to the customs handling depot and the Qantas Jet Base. They presented themselves to the security desk as technicians sent by Electronic Data Systems, the outsourced customs computer services provider which regularly sends people to work on computers after normal office hours. After supplying false names and signatures,...

EDS CEO: Company Will Continue To Cut Costs NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Electronic Data Systems Corp. Chief Executive Michael Jordan said the company is having trouble getting new technology services contracts due to its relatively high costs. Speaking at the Smith Barney Technology Conference here Tuesday, Jordan said EDS had lost its "cost competitiveness" lead to its top rival, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) , which has had strong new contract bookings this year. It was a rare tip of the hat from EDS to its fiercest competitor. EDS used to invest in its internal productivity and take other...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Do American jobhunters have to get their up-to-date employment news from The Economic Times of India? That faraway newspaper carries sensational items that somehow don't make news in the United States. The Economic Times published a report that the Bush Administration, speaking through U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, has assured India that its workers who come to the United States on H-1B visas will receive Social Security benefits even though they don't comply with the rules American workers must meet. The Economic Times of India reported that India's Commerce and Industry...

“EDS also found that the Navy’s computers were often purchased by different departments at the political whim of the department heads (Think: 'I’m a rear admiral, so I should have better computers than some captain.') Some PCs used by clerks were clunky old all-in-one Macs from 1984 while other clerks were using new Intel Pentium 4 systems with CD burners and 21” flat panel monitors.”

Subject: FW: Relocation Company: Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Location: Plano, TX Release Date: July 17, 2002, 2:40 PM CST EDS Considers Corporate Relocation to Venus (Reuterrs NewsWire) As a way to further reduce expenses, Electronic Data Systems (NYSE: EDS)is considering the relocation of its company headquarters to Venus, the second planet in our solar system. This possible relocation follows on the heels of potential legislation being deliberated in Congress regarding the legality of companies using foreign nations as a tax shelter. EDS officials, however, have stated that this move is not to reduce EDS tax liability to the U.S. Government,...

Reuters Business ReportEDS to Cut Work Force by 2,000NEW YORK (Reuters) - EDS, the world's No. 2 computer services company, said on Tuesday it would cut 2,000 jobs and reassured investors the reductions were not connected to its business with troubled telecommunications company WorldCom Group.(NasdaqNM:WCOME - News). "This action has absolutely nothing to do with our relation with WorldCom," Chief Executive Dick Brown said during a conference call with analysts. "EDS is a solid company with a straightforward business model. We watch our money and we stick by our clients." The 2,000 cuts represent 1.4 percent of the workforce of...

-----Original Message----- From: Vervynckt, Lawrence Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 4:10 PM To: Brown, Dick (mail centre); Brown, Dick (Mail Box) Cc: EDS Americas Employees; EDS Employees; EDS; 'presweb@pobox.upenn.edu'; NISC ALL EMPLOYEES Subject: memo to Dick Brown Dick, There are ethical ways to cut costs, and then there is executive greed. Your comment at the recent shareholder's meeting will be your legacy, like it or not ("I have to make that much money, I have an expensive wife."). Most of the people were proud to work for EDS and liked/like what they do/did at one time, but no more. Most...

<p>The Explosive Detection Systems, due to be in place for screening checked baggage by year's end, are the size of minivans and weigh even more.</p> <p>Walls will have to be torn down to make room for them, floors shored up to hold their weight, and new conveyor belts installed to move bags to and from the machines, said William DeCota, director of aviation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the region's three major airports.</p>