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BAGHDAD, Aug 1 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his government could not afford to pay General Electric for its services and rebuked parliament for failing to allow a $3 billion bond sale. In May, Iraq's cabinet approved the sale of the treasury bonds, of which $2.4 billion was meant to pay to revamp Iraq's dilapidated electricity sector. A lack of power is a major complaint among Iraqis, especially in the searing summer heat. Iraq's electricity minister had said he hoped parliament would ratify the cabinet's decision in early June, but lawmakers stopped work for the summer...

Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime. Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran. There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS...

The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale. Interviews with technology experts in Iran and outside the country say Iranian efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to Web sites or severing Internet connections. Instead, in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed the country this past week, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the German firm's shady dealings with the Iranian regime, which included helping the country develop "one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale." This story was even more shocking the first time I read it in the Washington Times.

The role of the internet in Iran's recent unrest has been stunning; so too have been the regime's efforts to minimize it. Luckily for the government, Iran's networks are rigged for suppression, courtesy of Nokia and Siemens.The core of the regime's online efforts is a process called deep packet inspection, which essentially scans nearly all internet traffic for offending material and can give authorities the ability to block the offending communications or, more importantly, identify where they came from. As you can imagine, this is quite a terrifying prospect for protesters, journalists and dissidents. Here's how it happened: In...

Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents. Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran's state-owned telephone company.

FRANKFURT, Germany – Siemens AG — rocked by a series of corruption cases that has cost the company both prestige and money — agreed Monday to pay more than $1 billion in fines in Germany and the U.S. as it moved a step forward in closing a dark chapter in its history. Munich-based Siemens agreed to pay more than $800 million in fines to settle long-standing corruption charges in the United States and another 395 million euros ($533.6 million) to European authorities. The announcements of the amounts of both fines came Monday. Siemens, which makes products ranging from wind turbines...

Siemens plans to cut 17,200 jobs worldwide By Richard Milne in Frankfurt Published: June 27 2008 21:11 | Last updated: June 27 2008 21:11 Siemens is to cut 17,200 jobs worldwide in an attempt to compete more effectively with rivals such as General Electric of the US and withstand the economic slowdown. The job cuts are among the largest in the German industrial conglomerate’s history and could revive debate in the country about companies slashing their workforces even as they make record profits, as Siemens did last year.

Siemens ‘too white, German and male’ By Richard Milne in London Published: June 24 2008 23:30 | Last updated: June 24 2008 23:30 Siemens‘ top management is too German for its own good, as well as too white and male, according to its chief executive. Peter Löscher, the Austrian-born chief of the German industrial conglomerate, said the priority for his second year in charge would be to improve the “global diversity” of managers and warned that Germany’s competitiveness could be threatened if it failed to do so. “The management board are all white males. Our top 600 managers are predominantly...

Nigeria: The Story of Congressman Jefferson Vanguard (Lagos) COLUMN September 21, 2006 Posted to the web September 21, 2006 Christopher Drew "A case against politicians, a tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal". In July 2005, Vernon L. Jackson returned home to Louisville from Washington, where he had just met with Representative William J. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who had been helping to promote his fledgling digital-technology company. David Harper, a lawyer for the company, said he had never seen Mr. Jackson so demoralised. For nearly five years, the inventor and the congressman had carried the message that Mr. Jackson's company,...

Millions of American investors, as well as their pension funds, mutual funds and other institutions, have unsuspectingly invested their hard-earned wealth in foreign companies that aid and abet the Islamofascist theocracy in Iran. If you are reading this article, you’re probably one of those unsuspecting investors. You may not directly own shares of corporations that do business in and with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but chances are your 401K, mutual fund portfolio or public pension system is invested in such companies. Congratulations. A portion of your money is going toward arming and training Hezbollah terrorists, sheltering members of Al...

WATERVILLE -- Mainers should push the Maine State Retirement System to divest $50 million of its investments in international companies operating in war-torn Sudan, a group of activists said Friday. A bill currently in the Statehouse to force the divestment, L.D. 1758, hangs in the balance, said Wells Staley-Mays, an adviser to the Fur Cultural Revival. He was speaking at a Colby College event alongside three Sudanese refugees. "Fur" refers to a major non-Arab tribe in the Sudanese region of Darfur -- an area the size of Texas, whose name literally means "home of the Furs" -- now threatened with...

ANKARA - The Turkish government will announce by the end of January a decision to build between three and five nuclear power plants with a total 5,000 megawatts capacity, sources close to the government said yesterday. The government may ask the electricity distribution companies to buy 7-10 percent of the energy produced in nuclear power plants, the sources said. “There will be no Treasury guarantee in this model, but the energy sector itself will provide the guarantee,” an official said. Turkey hopes nuclear power will help cover a projected energy shortage in the future, but its efforts on two other...

German engineering giant Siemens on Friday dismissed allegations that it was involved in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal in Iraq as "premature and unjustified". Big German firms such as Siemens and DaimlerChrysler were among 139 companies named in a report on the scandal by a committee led by former US central bank chief Paul Volcker that was published on Thursday. According to the 500-page report, the companies paid illegal oil surcharges to Baghdad and 2,253 firms gave Saddam's regime kickbacks on humanitarian-related goods shipped to Iraq. Siemens and related companies were alleged to have paid $1.6 million in kickbacks. But the...

Germany's Siemens to dismiss 2,400 UPI - Monday, September 19, 2005 Date: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:56:13 AM EST FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Germany's No. 1 automation group, Siemens AG, said Monday it will dismiss 2,400 workers at its struggling business services division. The staff reductions are designed to advance the conglomerate's ongoing attempts to regain system-wide profitability, Manufacturing.com said. Besides its business services division, Siemens also is focused on boosting earnings and lowering costs at its communications division and its logistics and assembly systems operations.

BenQ to Aquire Siemens MobileDiscussPrintEmail Monday, June 13th 2005 @ 9:28 AM PDT By Ian Bell Staff Writer, Designtechnica News Your next Siemens phone could be say BenQ on it, as the struggling mobile division of Siemens, gets snatched up by BenQ. advertising With BenQ acquiring Siemens Mobile, the new company will be listed as the world's fourth largest cell phone maker with expected combine annual revenue of $10.9 billion USD. “Today marks the next step in bringing BenQ’s enjoyment philosophy to the worldwide market,” said K.Y. Lee, BenQ Chairman & CEO. “The acquisition of Siemens’ mobile handset business allows...

MOSCOW, March 28 (RIA Novosti) - The public company Russian Railways will sign a treaty with the Siemens on the stage of designing, the organization of the production of high-speed electric trains and general terms of the contract on April 11 in Hannover, president of the Russian Railways company Gennady Fadeyev told reporters on Monday. "This document, as a matter of fact, has been coordinated today," he said, commenting on the results of the meeting with the Siemens leadership on Monday. The head of the Russian Railways company specified that the German side was to determine the amount of the...

SANAA, — Yemen is planning to host talks between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mishal, a political leader of the Hamas movement on negotiations with Israel, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said yesterday. “We expect Mahmoud Abbas to arrive here in the coming weeks with Khaled Mishal of Hamas to bringing closer the viewpoints of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority,” Saleh said. Saleh made the remarks during talks with the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who concluded a two-day visit to Yemen yesterday. The Yemeni leader expressed support to Abbas in his efforts to bring together the Palestinian factions to...

...Business executives haven't been much daunted by headlines screaming that the Bush administration has turned France into an enemy: "The U.S. is the leading investor in France, supporting almost 550,000 French jobs, while France is the second largest investor in the U.S., supporting 600,000 American jobs. Approximately $1 billion in commercial transactions take place between France and U.S. every business day." ...This competition among governing entities to make their jurisdictions good hosts to business is fostering global economic development in much the same way that it once fostered the growth of the now-robust U.S. economy. As with other organizations, governments...

"Siemens AG anticipates additional costs from a software problem with new mobile phones that has led retailers to suspend sales. Five models of its new 65 series can emit a piercing melody into users' ears if the battery fails during a call, causing hearing damage in extreme cases, according to a statement."

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Thousands of workers at the engineering giant Siemens have staged rallies throughout Germany in protest against the threat of jobs moving abroad. "Staff have been told to work 40 hours instead of 35 a week for the same pay or else production will go elsewhere," a union official told BBC News Online. Hartwig Oertel of IG Metall said staff walked out of their factories on Friday and held rallies for an hour or so. He said Siemens may move plants to Eastern Europe where costs are lower. Staff 'understand' More than 400 employees staged a protest at a Siemens car...

The insurgency in Iraq has driven two major contractors, General Electric and Siemens, to suspend most of their operations there, raising new doubts about the American-led effort to rebuild the country as hostilities continue. Spokesmen for the contractors declined to discuss their operations in Iraq, citing security concerns, but the shutdowns were confirmed by officials at the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, the Coalition Provisional Authority and other companies working directly with G.E. and Siemens in Iraq. "Between the G.E. lockdown and the inability to get materials moved up the major supply routes, about everything is being affected in one way...

<p>Siemens Production Shift to Affect 5,000 German Jobs (Update4) April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG, Germany's largest engineering company, said moving production to countries with lower wages will affect 5,000 domestic jobs as competition from Asia mounts and domestic labor costs hamper investment.</p>

<p>Siemens May Shift 10,000 Jobs Out of Germany, Union Member Says March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG, Germany's largest engineering company, may shift more than 10,000 jobs away from Germany to lower-cost regions such as Eastern Europe and Asia to help cut costs, a labor union representative said.</p>

Siemens plans to shift thousands of software-programming jobs to India, China and Eastern Europe, but an executive said the company's Arlington, Texas operation, which employs about 550, will be unaffected. Siemens, which is based in Germany and employs about 417,000 people worldwide, will move most of its 15,000 programming jobs out of the United States and Western Europe, said Anil R. Laud, managing director of Siemens Information Systems, the group's information-technology subsidiary in India. About 3,000 of the 30,000 software programmers that Siemens employs worldwide are already in India. "Siemens has recognized that a huge amount of software-development activity needs...

<p>BANGALORE, India (AP) — Siemens (SI) will move most of the 15,000 software programming jobs from its offices in the United States and Western Europe to India, China and Eastern Europe, a company official said Monday.</p> <p>"Siemens has recognized that a huge amount of software development activity needs to be moved from high-cost countries to low-cost countries," said Anil R. Laud, managing director of Siemens Information Systems, the group's information technology subsidiary in India.</p>

<p>The German firm Siemens will move most of the 15,000 software programming jobs from its offices in the United States and Western Europe to India, China and Eastern Europe, a company official said Monday.</p> <p>"Siemens has recognized that a huge amount of software development activity needs to be moved from high-cost countries to low-cost countries," said Anil R. Laud, managing director of Siemens Information Systems, the group's information technology subsidiary in India.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are asking technology workers to help export a new product: their jobs. As programing and other computer services move to low-cost locations in India and China, some workers are in the awkward position of training their replacements. Software developer Mike Emmons was shocked two years ago when Siemens AG, the German telecom equipment giant, decided to replace him and his colleagues with lower-paid programmers from India. According to Emmons, Siemens told about 20 workers in Lake Mary, Florida, that outsourcing was the wave of the...

KASSEL - Prosecutors Thursday said they have filed a murder indictment against one of two gay men who met in an Internet chat room, where it allegedly was agreed that one of them would kill and devour the other. And in a stunning new development, prosecutors in Kassel said they are broadening the investigation to include some 430 other persons believed to have been involved in the Internet gay cannibalism chat room that led to the death of a 42-year-old man in March 2001. Prosecutors are convinced that the victim, a computer analyst from Berlin, agreed to be killed and...

The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movment in Iran from being reported. From jamming satellite broadcasts, to prohibiting news reporters from covering any demonstrations to shutting down all cell phones and even hiring foreign security to control the population, the regime is doing everything in its power to keep the popular movement from expressing its demand for an end of the regime. These efforts by the regime, while successful in the short term, do not resolve the fundamental reasons why this regime is crumbling from within. Iran is a country ready for a regime...

German Businesses Head for Lower-Cost Shores As it becomes easier to operate in Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic, even smaller companies are starting to relocate   Several times a day, a barge slowly makes its way across the Oder River from Poland to Germany, carrying a cargo upon which much of Berlin's economy rests. Literally. Aboard the vessel are freshly washed and pressed bedsheets bound for Berlin's finest business hotels. Not that German workers aren't capable of doing laundry. In fact, Fliegel Textilservice, an overnight-linen service for Berlin hotels such as the five-star Adlon, is German-owned, and it is equipped...

Did the famous company help Saddam create nuclear weapons? Another outrageous scandal broke out in Germany, the country that has recently been producing lots of scandalous news. Scandal arises after a scandal. This time it is Siemens. The well-known comapany is in the center of attention. The company is being accused of helping Saddam Hussein in produce nuclear weapons.