GTech, the Group of Tech Companies in Kerala, has hailed the agreement reached between the Govt of Kerala and representatives of the Dubai Govt for the SmartCity Kochi project. GTech says that the determination to sort out all outstanding issues and the State Cabinet’s ratification of the agreement almost immediately thereafter sends out positive signals to the all investors. More...

Teleperformance (TP) is one of the biggest BPO’s in the world.  It has about 100,000 employees and revenue of 1,800 mill pounds last year. Established in 1978, its core business spans the full spectrum of CRM/BPO contact center solutions. Teleperformance has a large global footprint in the industry with 276 contact centers, presence in 51 countries, servicing over 75 markets. More...

Hundreds of millions of Indians are glued to every cricket match.  The Ashes Test cricket series between England and Australia is followed by millions in both countries.  But cricket has never taken roots in USA.  In a sweet twist of fate, an American Ashley Kerekes, who had never held a cricket bat till Dec 2010, found thousands of cricket lovers following her Twitter account. More...

Over the last 15 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...

International website Freelancer has expanded outsourcing to a micro level. To date, over 890,000 projects have been posted on Freelancer, from projects as simple as designing a website ($200) or logo design ($30) through to as obscure as designing a functional Dune Buggy ($268) and composing a Rap song to help Chinese students learn English ($102).  It is a huge hit in India. More...

Over the last 12 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...

Teleperformance (TP) is one of the biggest BPO’s in the world.  It has about 100,000 employees and revenue of 1,800 mill pounds last year. Established in 1978, its core business spans the full spectrum of CRM/BPO contact center solutions. Teleperformance has a large global footprint in the industry with 276 contact centers, presence in 51 countries, servicing over 75 markets. More...

Recently, many sites related to Kerala were attacked. As per the statistics available with the Computer Emergency Response Team Kerala (CERT-K), as many as 40 websites from Kerala were hacked in the last 6 weeks. Random messages on social networking sites hint at the possibility of further attacks by Dec 31, 2010. CERT experts are working full time to secure websites in Kerala. More...

If the Govt of India is to be believed, more than 650 million Indians use mobile phones. And the number is increasing every day. Dual SIM phones have become very popular in India.  Many senior executives have a number of phones.  So, how does one work out the exact number of cell phone users in India rather than the number of phones sold? Many Telecom experts advocate caution. More...

Bollywood is a multi billion dollar business.  And such big money always attracts the sharks and pirates.  Every year, Bollywood loses big bucks to the internet pirates.  Even nice guys like Bollywood super star Aamir Khan are not spared.  His latest production Peepli Live had to hire a team of techies working at Bangalore based Aiplex software to help fight off the pirates. More...