For 10 years, Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju was one of the golden men of the Indian IT-ITES sector. Raju was feted by politicians and big business.  He was awarded the Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance in 2008 as well as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007.  By now, it is history that Satyam was a house of cards build by con man Raju and his family. More...

CISCO, with the largest share of the global network equipment market, earned revenues of $11 Billion for the 3 months ending May, 2010 which was  25 % higher than 2009. The Cisco I-Prize, worth $250K, is an open, global competition where anyone can submit ideas for Cisco’s next business success. Techgoss interviewed Sanjith Yeruva who has made it to the finals of this contest. More...

Social media monitoring and analytics technology company Sysomos monitors blogs, Twitter, social networks, Wikis and other media to work out what happens on the net. Using this collated data, Sysomos clients have access to consumer sentiment, geo demographics and competitive intelligence.  Its latest report on the top Twitterers shows some have substantial following in India. More...

On May 18,  I had reported on how a Facebook (FB) group ‘Everybody draw Mohammed Day on May 20’ had extremely graphic images and cartoons (few of which were pornographic) and were bound to hurt the sensibilities of many in the Islamic world.  Despite many requests, Facebook did not take down this group saying its platform allows such freedom of speech about every religion. More...

Even as Indian private sector IT, BPO and Telecom firms have made the country a digital super power, the Government infrastructure lags behind.  Except for a handful of States, Indian police do not have the skills and budgets to take on cyber crime. Most victims of cyber crime, especially women, find themselves helpless. NGO CCVC steps in to offer assistance to such victims. More...

Over the last 12 months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports about all that was happening inside Syntel IT, BPO and KPO. In the first week of May, 2010, Techgoss received an anonymous tip that the highly regarded Syntel KPO Head Ashfaq Ahad has put in his papers.  Also, that all recruitment and PDAC teams had disappeared from Syntel.  The tip was genuine. More...

The Europe based Internet Problem Solving Contest (IPSC) describes itself as an “online contest for teams consisting of up to three people. Several problems will be published at the beginning of the competition. Each problem consists of a problem description and two input data sets. To solve a problem you will have to compute correct output data for the given input data sets. More...

Like many journalists, I subscribe to the view that free flow of capital and people are good for the global economy.  Not surprisingly, India is a big winner for the time being.  But many Indian IT-ITES companies,  because of rising costs in places like Bangalore and in echoes to what happened in USA, are setting up offices in China, Mexico and other  'cheaper' countries. More...

Kickstarter is a great idea to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.  It says it is based on the premise that a good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.  And that a large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement. The Kickstarter website raised more than $200,000 for a new Facebook open source alternative known as Diaspora. More...

StatCounter is a free online visitor stats tool that has been in operation for more than a decade and allows its users to monitor the number of hits to their website; the geographical location of visitors; the various pages a visitor views; keywords used to find the site plus other features. StatCounter has just released a report about web browser usage in most countries. More...