Daily Archives: 6/10/2007
From offshore to offshore
Now folks in India can identify with their counterparts in the U.S. as they worry about jobs in India being offshored (again) to Mexico:
Hit by rising costs in India, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has decided to service US clients from Mexico.
The company said on Wednesday it would hire 5,000 people in Mexico over the [...]
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A short history of dirty words
Slate has a brief look at the history of dirty words that's mildly entertaining. Among other things, it mentions that the f-word is older than most people think it is -- from the 1500s, according to Slate, which makes it all the more surprising that it's taken so long for the word to lose (some [...]
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