The unstoppable Indian IT industry continues its global conquest.  Offering great quality and competitive rates, it is growing in leaps and bounds.  Much of the outsourcing is done to India,  but some software work also done  in branches of these Indian companies based in USA and Europe,  by Indians on work visas. More...

i-flex solutions Ltd, which specializes in enterprise solutions for the financial industry, has had meteoric success and recognition.  It has more than 7000 employees servicing 660 customers in more than 100 countries.  What is remarkable about all its success is the fact, that since its inception, it has proudly worked and marketed itself on the 'Made in India' brand. Very commendable. More...

There is clearly a dearth of information about website traffic data for Indian websites. I have often tried to search for any publicly available sources of information about data for Indian websites (reach, penetration, page views etc) but to no avail. No Indian website publicly gives out its traffic figures and there is just no external database or tracking methodology or agency More...

The American Federal Trade Commission manages the Do Not Call Registry in that country.   After a 3 year review and discussion, the American Government finally gave the go ahead to set up DNC (Do Not Call) in 2003.  It has been a huge success with more than 100 million Americans registering to avoid telemarketing calls.  Since Jan 1, 2005 the rules have been further tightened to restrict Call Centres from making cold calls to market goods and services to Americans. More...

On July 18th, the Indian Government banned www.hinduhumanrights.org  along with a few other websites.  Ostensibly, the reason to block access to Hinduhumanrights.org was that it could cause religious disharmony and civil disturbances in India.  The real reason may be the websites differences of opinion with some Indian academics in UK with close links to the current Indian Government. More...

Maryse Alvis is the only model from the sub-continent in the world’s first IT Girlie ‘Beauty and Brains’ Calender.  Australia-based Maryse has successfully straddled two careers of accounting and IT for a number of years. She started out studying accounting; then built on technical IT knowledge after doing a programming course. More...

The latest entrant aboard the website bandwagon, sunsilkgangofgirls.com, has scripted a very interesting success story in the Indian web industry. Bankrolled by consumer giant Hindustan Lever and designed by BC Web Wise, this woman’s online advertising boutique has struck an instant chord with the young, cash-rich Indian women. Over a hundred thousand of them signed up on the website in the last one month. More...

Understanding the urban Indian mind just became smarter, simpler and cost-effective. Sanjay Tiwari of Juxt Consult, which conducts large-scale surveys in Indian cities, found that results of offline or land-based surveys are nearly the same as of online surveys. Sanjay, who has had a long stint in marketing and conducting offline research, felt a couple of years back that since Internet users are largely city-based, the characteristics of online and offline samples should not vary much. Here’s what he did to dispel doubts. More...