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Post 1389

imported

Posted Friday, 6 August 2004

USA: W wants to get rid of legacy admissions to universities. It’s too late.

Tags: legacy, USA, Yahoo

Post 1388

imported

Posted Friday, 6 August 2004

USA: What would happen if there were chickens everywhere, dancing, and clucking and scratching? Ask the people of Fitzgerald, Georgia, but always remember - they aren’t chickens, they’re Burmese red jungle fowl.

Tags: Georgia, time, USA, Yahoo

Post 1387

imported

Posted Friday, 6 August 2004

Sports: SI has published their “Top 10 Most Embarrassing TV/Radio Interview Moments”. Number 1: a sideline interview with a drunk Joe Namath.

Tags: car, MBA, radio, sports

Do NDAs mean anything in India?

all imported

Posted Friday, 6 August 2004

Tech: Jolly Technologies, which sells printing software, announced that a contractor at their Indian outsourcing office used Yahoo mail to steal source code and documentation for one of the company’s main products. She did sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement), not that it means much in India. Meanwhile, Microsoft says they did use Indian subcontractors for Visual J#.Net and Services for Unix, but not on “core” features of Longhorn.

Tags: email, India, Microsoft, office, outsource, privacy, security, software, Yahoo