In its role as a media and human rights watchdog, the France-based Reporters Without Borders keeps an eye on any suppression of freedom of expression of traditional and new media.  The non-profit Reporters Without Borders has consultant status at the UN. On March 12, it released its ‘Web 2.0 Versus Control 2.0’ report. More...

NASSCOM reported in Aug, 2009, that despite the global recession, the Indian IT-BPO sector reached USD 58.8 billion in FY08-09 up from USD 52 billion in FY07-08. Export revenues for the IT-BPO industry recorded growth of 16.3 % and clocked revenues of USD 46.3 billion in FY08-09 up from USD 40.4 billion in FY07-08. More...

Tvm: Kerala IT has launched a series of eye catching advertisements on leading television channels as part of its strategy to promote Kerala as an IT destination and to bring in more IT investments to the State. The IT Department’s two 15 second spots are now coming on a leading English News channel and its Business counterpart. More...

The World Economic Forum describes itself as “an independent, not-for-profit foundation striving towards a world-class corporate governance system where values are as important a basis as rules. Our motto is ‘entrepreneurship in the global public interest’”. It plays host to the most powerful people in the world. More...

CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.  Its stable includes such respected magazines like Dataquest, PCQuest and DQ Week.  The group has 12 websites led by Ciol.com. Needless to say CyberMedia is one of the most powerful voices in tech India. More...

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) describes itself as a not for profit public benefit corporation which coordinates the unique computer identifiers across the world. ICANN started life as an American Government instrument but now gets input from more than 100 countries while formulating policies. More...

The IDG media house consists of such credible names like Computerworld, IT World, Java World, Mac User, PC World, GamePro and InfoWorld.  Its magazines and websites command huge global audiences.  An IDG publication InfoWorld has been embarrassed after one of its columnists was caught using a different name to present himself as the CTO of a tech firm. More...

For many reasons, USA has been the perfect incubator for new ideas and startups.  But economic super powers like China and India are developing ecosystems which would nourish smart young men and women and their bright ideas.  Today, given a choice many IIM and IIT graduates prefer staying in India rather than going abroad. More...

The IDG media house consists of such credible names like Computerworld, IT World, Java World, Mac User, PC World, GamePro and InfoWorld.  Its magazines and websites command huge global audiences.  An IDG publication InfoWorld has been embarrassed after one of its columnists was caught using a different name to present himself as the CTO for a tech firm. More...

US-based VIVA was started by Indian origin techies and managers. VIVA describes itself as an ‘Information Technology Management and Consulting services firm with offices in the US and India. We specialize in IT staff augmentation, On-site and Off-site IT consulting, Turnkey Project Outsourcing, and eBusiness Solutions’ More...