The booming IT industry in India has empowered many Tech Specialists to make more time to pursue their passions. Some IIT Graduates have stopped pursuing lucrative careers in India and overseas and are with NGO’s as well as organizations like ISCKON. Software testing Techie by day and Poker expert after work, Gopi Sade, finished fourth at the recent World Gaming festival in Goa. More...

Judy Balan wears many hats, single mother, advertising professional, avid blogger, playwright, and now a novelist. She quit her job to be a full time parent and to focus on her writing. Her book, Two Fates, which began as a spoof on IIT trained iconic author Chetan Bhagat’s Two States has proved it can stand on its own by going in for a reprint within a month of its coming out. More...

The booming IT industry in India has empowered many Tech Specialists to make more time to pursue their passions. Techgoss catches up with Bangalore born and raised Dr. Anu Vaidyanathan who has earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering in record time, hacked Linux and open source at IBM,  taught at IIT and IIM – all while becoming the most successful Indian female Triathlete ever. More...

After disappointing financial results, American networking giant Cisco has been undergoing rationalization for the last 5 months. It shuttered its Flip camcorder business.  13 thousand jobs have been made redundant and more than 12 thousand employees moved.  Cisco openly said it had ‘lost its way’ and become ‘fat’.  But for some CISCO techies, salary increases are well deserved. More...

Milaap.org describes itself as ‘an online platform that enables you to lend to India's working poor so they can get access to education, clean water, energy and more. It’s a loan, not a donation. This means you get your full loan amount back once your borrower repays it.’ One of its co-founders Sourabh has a successful record with startups and helped launch Milaap in June 2010. More...

Bangalore based The Centre for Internet and Society describes its vision and mission to ‘critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South - South dialogues and exchange’. CIS filed a RTI with the Govt of India and had scooped the list of banned websites More...

Shwetak Patel, known for his software which helps consumers conserve energy better, is well recognised in the field. He co-founded a residential energy monitoring start-up ‘Zensi’ in 2008 while in graduate school. Shwetak was nominated a Fellow at Microsoft Research Faculty in July and is now a MacArthur Fellow.  Each MacArthur Fellow gets a no strings attached $500,000 grant. More...

Bangalore bred techie Nagendra, who moved to USA in 2000, literally lives for his passion, films. He has already been involved with two films; one in Kannada and the next titled Mumbhai Connection (note the spelling) which narrates an IT-Mafia nexus and is going places. Techgoss caught up with award winning ‘Atlanta Nagendra’, his name is his tribute to the city he lives in. More...

In 2006, an Infosys techie met his soul-mate at Indian website Shaadi. A perfect courtship later, life crashed for Ravinder Singh when his fiancé died tragically in an accident. In 2008, his debut novel ‘I Too Had A Love Story’, a true love story, went on to touch a zillion hearts and won him many admirers. Techgoss tracks Ravinder to his new life and new book at Hyderabad. More...

The multi billion dollar mobile applications business is booming.  And creative Indian operations like TwistMobile are riding this insatiable demand for entertainment, education and social networking on mobile devices. The Nokia Millionaire League is a group of over 200 application developers (Eleven from India) who have crossed the 1 million download mark at the Nokia Store. More...