On Aug 15, 2010, hackers took over the website of high profile Indian businessman, politician and IPL team owner, Vijay Mallya.  The hackers posted pro Pakistani messages and signed off as Pakistan Cyber Army.  At least half a dozen national Indian media interviewed Vijay Mallya about his site being hacked. Techgoss spoke to all key players to work out what really happened. More...

Over the last ten months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside the BPO, KPO and IT divisions of one of India’s most successful IT-ITES companies Syntel.  One report showed how that in the recent past Syntel BPO was overly reliant on couple of key clients. Also, reported were the exits of the CEO and key HR people. More...

Princeton Uni educated Alok Bhardwaj worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banker before starting his own New York City based educational services firm. Alok then moved to Bangalore, India to start Hidden Reflex which specializes in software development.  Hidden Reflex launched the first Indian browser named Epic with many special features for the large Indian market. More...

Smartsoft was founded in 1997 and on its website describes itself as a ‘trusted service provider and systems integration partner to some of America’s leading corporations including Siemens Energy & Automation, Nissan Motors, Motorola, CPS Energy and Medquist.’  Smartsoft has been a SAP partner since 2003. Atlanta head quartered Smartsoft has few offices in Chennai as well. More...

Genpact was India’s first BPO and still continues its market leadership position in India.  Genpact has 41,000 employees and earned revenue of $1.1 Billion in 2009. Genpact started life as a Business Unit of GE, but by January 2005 it became an independent company.  Two years later, it was listed on the NYSE. In 2009, NASSCOM ranked Genpact as the No. 1 BPO company in India. More...

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited website Irctc.co.in is one of the most popular portals in the country.  Irctc offers online rail ticket bookings, train schedules, travel planner and even many holiday packages. Not surprisingly, it is a huge money spinner. According to Alexa, it is among the top 30 websites in India and top 600 sites in the world. More...

Hewlett Packard (HP) has sacked its Chairman and CEO, Mark Hurd, for using company funds to hire a ‘contractor’ who was paid as much as $5,000 to meet and greet executives at company functions. The boss also invited her to be dinner company. While the contractor Jodie Fisher denies a sexual relationship, she has been quoted as saying that she felt ‘pressurized’ to have sex. More...

The Open Source software movement is one of the greatest idealistic collaborative efforts of the modern world.  Highly skilled techies volunteer their time and specialized skills to create systems and products like internet browser Mozilla Firefox.  Firefox is a great browser and best of all it is free. Its latest version has been downloaded by more than 125 Million users. More...

Naveen Jain grew up in middle-class Uttar Pradesh, India but always aimed for the top.  To his credit,   he studied at IIT (Roorkee) and then did an MBA for the prestigious XLRI.  Naveen got his first big break when he joined Microsoft and had a chance to study the success of his role model, Billionaire Bill Gates.  He made his way up to one of the Group Managers at Microsoft. More...

Digg.com has been designed to be a democratic news reporting system.  Ordinary citizens choose and recommend stories as compared to the old media system where a know it all Editor and a handful of senior journalists decided what story ideas should be reported and what research got published. Digg is among the top 50 sites in USA and extremely popular in India and Pakistan. More...