Professor Subhash Bhatnagar recently won accolades when his paper titled ‘Results from a study of impact of eGovernment projects in India’ was selected as the best paper submitted at the ICTD meet in April, 2009 at Doha. In an exclusive interview to techgoss, Mr. Bhatnagar shared his experience on getting the award, his future focus and about his meeting with Bill Gates. More...

On paper, Minecode is a Washington based company that develops software packages and websites that has successfully completed a number of projects for small and medium sized Government agencies and business. But a large chunk of Minecode work is done at their offices at 813, Phase 5, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, India. Minecode has pleaded guilty to hacking a client’s site. More...

New year 2009 began on a bad note for the Managing Director of a software solutions company, E-ware Technologies of Gurgaon, as a local Court remanded him into 14-day judicial custody in Jail on Jan 2. E-ware MD Rajeev Nagpal and HR manager Shalu Sharma were arrested on Dec 30 by police on charges of criminal breach of trust and intimidation inflicted on engineers. More...

Infosys is publicly labeling 2100 juniors that it sacked as ‘non performers’. Senior managers whose variable pay was cut were not labeled ‘non-performers’. Like the laws of the jungle, only those who cannot fight back are labeled ‘non-performers’. Now comes news that may lead many to believe that this mass sacking was a cost cutting exercise rather than culling deadwood. More...

NetApp, founded in 1992, has 7500 employees who create innovative storage and data management solutions.  NetApp, with revenues of $3.3 billion in 2008, successfully competes with giants like HP, EMC etc which operate in the same vertical.  NetApp India has a number of high profile clients including Reliance. NetApp has just pleaded guilty to overcharging the Government. More...

When India’s largest Software exporter, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) spells ‘performance of employees’, one can be assured that the company actually means layoff’s.  The company has, in literal sense, sacked around 500 employees over a period of time this year. In February it was reported by mainstream media that TCS has put 1000 techies under the performance scanner. More...

No other country has this system of publicly humiliating ex employees.  No other industry in India follows such blatant heartlessness.  Even in India, most tech companies deal with exits in a sensitive fashion. But many Indian tech majors are guilty of such public chest thumping.  Last week, Infosys HR Head, Mohandas Pai, told media on how non-performers were sacked. More...

Sudhindra Mokhasi is riding a wave, a book wave! Chetan Bhagat did introduce us to ‘One night @ a call centre’, but Sudhindra does more, and he brings us a whole tapestry of true stories from the BPOs in his book BPO-SUTRA, which has sold 10, 000 copies in just a month.  Techgoss interviewed Sudhindra Mokhasi, former VP of MphasiS and currently CEO of e-Sutra Chronicles. More...

Depending on your perspective, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is a Saintly hero blessed with the Midas touch or a Hindu strongman with a bias against minorities.  What is not disputed is that Mr. Modi understands business and has brought unprecedented economic success to his State.  Like all the hard men of politics, he is often misquoted or quoted out of context. More...

Pluggd.in.sourced the fact that Indians search hard for information and titbits about April Fool pranks.  Their research of Google Insights showed that the top 4 countries searching Google for April Fool pranks are – India, Canada, US and UK.  Among Indian States, Maharashtra and Delhi lead the search for April Fool pranks. But not many actually play April Fool jokes. More...