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If you, like this author, always dreamed of using a camo-covered, Army-issue Humvee as your personal golf cart, your dreams can finally come true — for a price. According to the Army Times, the Department of Defense will start auctioning off as many as 4,000 military-spec Humvees to the public as part of its surplus-reduction efforts. In previous years, the off-road behemoths would have been sent straight to the military scrapyard, but due to changes in policies in recent years and what the Defense Logistics Agency spokesperson Michelle McCaskill describes as “cooperation from other government offices," the used Humvees will...

An Homage to Hummer Comedian Penn Jillette laments the passing of the 'big, stupid' vehicle By PENN JILLETTE There's a feeling one gets when one sits behind the wheel of a really big stupid military-lite American Hummer. You have that feeling of being strong and safe, high on your pleather throne, above the fray, above the danger, not having to listen to anyone or anything, the rumble of a too-big motor giving you a wiggle and jiggle and tickle inside you. You have the power to run over anyone else on the road, if they dare monkey with you and...

JASPER, Texas (AP) - For some drivers, even a Hummer may not be enough. At a curb weight of more than 3.5 tons, the Humvee-inspired Hummer H1 is no skinny guy who gets sand kicked in his face. But the Bad Boy Heavy Muscle Truck, a dressed-up military vehicle more than twice as heavy, is being billed as bigger, badder and more bodacious. "It's the rugged Bubba," said Daniel Ayres, president and CEO of Homeland Defense Vehicles LLC and its division Bad Boy Trucks. The East Texas company aims to market the machine to civilians with disposable cash and a...

Home :: About InfoWorld :: Advertise :: Subscribe :: Contact Us :: Awards :: Events     NEWS    Study: Indian diaspora helped outsourcing movementIndia will retain its edge due to networking, mentoring provided to businesses engaged in outsourcing   By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service October 04, 2004  Indian professionals, venture capitalists (VCs), and entrepreneurs of Indian origin helped promote India as an outsourcing destination, according to a study conducted for the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C., by Evalueserve Inc., a business intelligence and research firm.    ADVERTISEMENT    RELATED LINKS • PeopleSoft, Siebel both say Q3 revenue...

The H-1Paul Bremer announces that there really were al Qaeda in Iraq, and that some 300 terrorists were being held at a POW camp in Iraq named H-1.by Christian Lowe 10/01/2003 12:00:00 AM Christian Lowe, contributing writer U.S. FORCES IN IRAQ trying to lock down security in Iraq's "Sunni Triangle" are battling enemies beyond disgruntled Baathist and unemployed Fedayeen. The triangle--the region around Baghdad and west to Ramadhi, then north to Saddam Hussein's ancestral hometown of Tikrit (and sometimes as far north as Mosul)--has become a hotbed for foreign fighters eager to spill American blood. President Bush stated in...

BANGALORE: ‘Bill HR 2268’ in the US, which seeks to abolish H1B visas, is a topic of raging debate in Indian IT circles, both in this country and the US. The dominant view is that the US bureaucrats and politicians would not be so foolish as to support the move. And the message for the moment is: ignore the threat and move on.The Bill seems flawed, because when you don’t have the right skills within your country, you look overseas,” says Anshul Gupta, an employee of i2 Technologies, US. Hemal Gandhi of Intel, US, adds, “If the US government’s attempt...

A New York Times article outlining U.S. plans for a long-term military presence in Iraq wins the "world-class thumbsucker" award of the year, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The secretary, apparently peeved by the report, blasted its writer and the paper in a rare assault before reporters assembled at today's Pentagon press briefing. "Let me just get this off my chest," Rumsfeld said in response to a question about the article. "I have no idea who these people talked to. But I'll tell you, if I were a journalist, I would ... remember who they are, and I'd write...

<p>Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday the military has no plans to set up long-term bases in Iraq for U.S. forces.</p> <p>Mr. Rumsfeld said four bases are being used by the military for "stability operations" and for supplying humanitarian aid.</p>

Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq Sat Apr 19, 2:55 PM ET By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 19 The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq (news - web sites), one that would grant the Pentagon (news - web sites) access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say. American military officials, in interviews this week, spoke of maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future:...

The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say. American military officials, in interviews this week, spoke of maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future: one at the international airport just outside Baghdad; another at Tallil, near Nasiriya in the south; the third at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert, along the old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan;...

WASHINGTON, April 19 — The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say.

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Unemployment among electronic engineers soared to 7 percent in the first quarter, the U.S. Department of Labor said last week, surpassing the national jobless rate of 5.8 percent recorded in March. At the same time, some industry groups are considering lobbying for legislation to raise the annual quota for H-1B visas and allow more foreign technical workers into the United States.

On Friday, March 14, at 7:20 a.m. MST — five days before the official start of the war — two B-1B bombers struck the H3 airfield complex about 250 miles west of Baghdad. The bombers also hit another airfield complex nearby, according to the Associated Press. The Air Force did not say where the B-1Bs were based. Ellsworth Air Force Base has two squadrons of B-1Bs — or 26 aircraft. The other 34 aircraft in the nation's B-1B fleet are based at Dyess AFB, Texas. Nearly 1,000 Ellsworth personnel and an undisclosed number of Ellsworth B-1Bs are deployed overseas for...

Friday March 28, 5:23 PM Backlash against Indian IT professionals on upswing By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service ADVERTISEMENT Bangalore, Mar 28 (IANS) The backlash against Indian information technology (IT) professionals working abroad is on the upswing, industry officials aver, pointing to the action by Dutch authorities against an Indian software developer. "This is clearly a backlash against the Indians. The Indians have come under the spotlight after growing unemployment and the downturn of economies in Europe now," contended the CEO of a software company. Senthil Kumar, CEO of i-Flex's Dutch subsidiary, was detained in London on Holland's request...