“Hacking” is one word which piques the interest of everyone in the tech industry.  The dictionary meaning of hack is more innocent and means “someone has to write programming code or add a code to an existing program to solve the problem, because there is no pre-written software that does it”.  The ground realities are that countries like China are launching relentless hacking attacks on other countries. More...

Finally the decision has been made and the future structure of the Reliance Communications HR Team is somewhat in place. Mr. Deepak Lal Yadav is moving out of his current role as the Circle HR Head of the Orissa Circle.  The new HR boss, Mr. Jagat Mohanty, has been given a massive pay hike to lure him from rival Vodafone. More...

A very small group of Muslim IT professionals in Bangalore are feeling a different kind of heat these days. Most of them are feeling offended and hurt, while some others are disgusted. Of late there have been many attempts to label a small group as terrorists or extremists. There have also been allegations of a terror network formed by Muslims in the IT industry. More...

The proprietor of an IT start-up in Trivandrum had a big problem. He has couple of Fortune 500 companies including Aramco as clients but still something was bugging him. No, it wasn’t failing projects or missing deadlines or even falling profits but it was something personal. He was worried about his receding hair line which made him look older than what he was. Probably he is one among the thousands of Techies who’s going through this but then, he decided to find a solution. More...

Reputed magazine Business Week is reporting that Indian computer programmer Vishal Goel has sued his former employer Patni Computer Systems for only paying half his promised salary when he was sent on a working visa to USA.  Vishal Goel has told an American court that he was given a base salary of only $23,310 in USA,  while he was promised $44,000 in India. More...

Vodafone, Airtel, Reliance, Tata Teleservices and Aircel have entered in a pact, wherein it has been agreed upon that if any of their employees or candidates bargains with the existing or prospective organization, on the basis of offer letters issued by any of these organizations, the organization that has issued the offer letter should be informed immediately, who, in turn, would withdraw the offer from the market. More...

Leading English newspapers in Kerala have carried a recruitment advertisement of Wipro this week. ‘Wanted Project Engineers’, Wipro requires Project Engineers across Kerala. There are 25 vacancies but only males can apply. Do we smell some gender bias here? Or is this Wipro’s way of contributing to the gender inequality in Kerala as part of their corporate responsibility? More...

A Software Engineer of a leading company UST Global in Technopark, Trivandrum has been harassing and intimidating his ex-girlfriends who are also his colleagues. In the last couple of months, two of them have resigned while the third has gone on long leave. The best part of this story is that this guy is still out scot-free, having a good time and looking for his next victim. More...

Techgoss had reported earlier that the HR Head of Reliance Communication's Orissa Circle - Mr. Deepak Lal Yadav is on his way out from his current role and in turn, the organization.  The tech grapevine says he has been offered the Chandigarh Circle at the same position. This movement is likely to happen at the end of February 2008. More...