MUMBAI: When American Senator Charles Schumer described Indian software firms as `chop shops’, few imagined that the taxman back home could add salt to the slur. Indeed, Indian income-tax authorities are beginning to claim tax on the money that software firms make by sending their boys to work with companies in the US, Europe and other markets—a business that is known as onshore software development, or simply ‘body shopping’. For the I-T department, this is an activity that involves export of manpower and not export of software.

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Onsite revenues of IT companies under tax scanner

In a world where Windows has dominated the PC market for years, there has recently been a rise in popularity for alternative operating systems (OS). Apple’s OS X has become very popular for video producers, graphic artists, and web designers

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VMware Workstation vs. VMware Fusion

Click Here for Your Free Pass to the Online Copywriting Summit While I was at NAMS in Atlanta , I had a chance to sit down with Karon Thackston and Chris Cobb. You may recognize their names

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Free Pass to the Online Copywriting Summit

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising can do more than simply create traffic for your website. If creatively executed, you can put the search engines to work for you and create a brand people can identify. When it comes to PPC advertising solutions, Google AdWords is pretty much king.

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Advantages of Pay-Per-Click

Let’s turn back the clock to the fall of 2009. I was the sole blogger here at All Freelance Writing. Traffic was already fairly significant.

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How We Increased Blog Traffic by 80% in Less Than a Year (and How You Can Too!)

Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these.

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How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)

I spent the weekend in Atlanta at the Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop hosted by David Perdew. This is the 4th time I’ve attended and taught at “NAMS”, and I’ll be doing it again in January 2011.

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Back From The Niche Affiliate Workshop…

I had a wonderful trip to New York City recently and shared some of the places that I visited (see links at end of post), but there were plenty more places that I ate at, which didn’t get mentioned in previous posts. So here’s a round-up of them… Katz’s Most of the good delis are gone in New York City, but Katz’s is an institution and I like to believe it’s never going to let me down. I’ve had great meals there, but on this visit, my corned beef was tough and almost all of the meat inside my sandwich was inedible.

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New York City Dining and Travel Notes

There will be consequences if you don't understand the rules and the stakes of Facebook Places. Love it or hate it, you'll need to understand it, says guru B. L

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The Implications of Facebook Pages for you and your business: B.L. Ochman’s blog

This made me smile on a dreary Monday morning. Instore magazine' s tip of the day eblast was spreading optimism so I felt like contributing to the cause! Are you still bummed out

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Instore Magazine says: Snap Out of it! Post Recessionary Advice for Jewelers

On a recent trip to New York City, I was surprised (and delighted) to find many businesses are now offering free Wi-Fi, from department and electronics stores to the local coffee shops as well as national chains like Starbucks . Although the private businesses in Paris have been slow to catch on, the city of Paris hasn’t been and they offer complimentary Wi-Fi in 400 locations around the city, including public parks and municipal spaces. The Wi-Fi (pronounced wee-fee ) is available from 7am to 11pm, or during the hours the park or building is open

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How to Find and Use Free Wi-Fi in Paris

The French have a lot of protests and manifestations . Some of the issues they march for are a bit of a reach and we roll our eyes. And it’s annoying when the trains and other forms of transport go on strike and you need to get somewhere

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Les Tomates

In Pucino v. Verizon Communications, Inc. (“Verizon”), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont) reversed a decision by a New York federal court granting summary judgment in favor of Verizon on a former employee’s gender-based hostile work environment claims.

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Second Circuit Clarifies Proof Necessary to Establish a Hostile Work Enviroment Claim

Social marketing has made millions for those who adapted early, but it’s not too late to jump on board and benefit from the marketing potential social media have to offer. You may be wondering why social marketing is so powerful. Well, mostly because you’re able to reach prospects in new and creative ways on their terms, giving them a sort of home field advantage, if you will

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Start Earning Online In The Next 30 min! If you are looking to work from home and would like to start earning anywhere from $200 – $1500+ everyday then you would want to check out this offer and learn how you could soon be quitting your day job to work from home! No Technical Skills Required, Anyone Can Join! Get The My Home Wealth System Today! Do you think blogging has changed over the last few years? Well I think it has for me, at least over the last 3 years that I’ve been blogging.

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When I worked in the restaurant business, if you happened to walk in during staff meal, you could always tell who were the pastry people: we were the ones dousing our food with vinegar and salt. That is, when we had time to sit down and eat. I like sweets, but I like them tempered with something not-necessarily sweet, which is why sometimes you’ll see a squeeze of lemon juice added to a fruit ice cream base or bakers like me include a pinch of salt in batter, to balance things out.

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Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Daily Candy is turning 10 and to celebrate their decade of great finds, new discoveries and fantastic new designers they're running an entrepreneur's contest.

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Daily Candy celebrates 10th Anniversary with an Entrepreneur’s Launch Contest

Many members of JewelryDesignerFinder.com are showcasing their jewelry at the NY Gift Show this week… stop by to see great trends and new products for holiday 2010. Or see them online at www.JewelryDesignerFinder.com — our new site that brings you the world of designers in one place

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JewelryDesignerFinder.com designers at the NYIGift Fair this week!

This is the year of the wrist. Every trendsetter is sporting a stack of bracelets, and Georgianna Koulianos of GK Designs is no exception.

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GK Designs Debuts "Wrap the Gulf in Beauty" Bracelets to Support Clean Up Efforts

“Hi Lynn, I have a quick question. In order to have a successful blog, do you have to target keywords? I’m blogging mainly to give information, but it would be nice to profit from it as well

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A Surefire Way To Increase Blog Traffic