The booming IT-ITES industry in India has empowered many Tech Specialists to drop out and pursue their passions.  Some IIT Graduates have stopped pursuing lucrative careers in India and overseas and are with NGO’s as well as organizations like ISCKON.  One leading security expert has cut down on his hours to practice Art of Living. Another has opted to be a Fitness Trainer More...

Over the last 20 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...

Apple’s Steve Jobs died leaving behind one of the greatest success stories in the world of computers. He also left behind a big band of worshippers. With his eccentric, allegedly spiritual, and “prophetic” ingenuity, Jobs carried around him an inimitable aura, much like the gadgets over whose 'invention', manufacturing and selling he officiated under thick cloaks of secrecy. More...

Regular readers of Techgoss are well aware that a large number of our articles are crowd sourced.  People send in tips, story ideas and even articles. Many of our contributors have full times jobs in IT - ITES, and so prefer using a pseudonym. A Tipster, who was a guest at a CISCO meet in Bangalore, wrote to us.  CISCO is undergoing change after disappointing financial results More...

The Society for Rich Internet Application - Rich User Interface (RIA-RUI) is a not for profit organisation working for the promotion of idea sharing and generation in the fields of rich internet application and rich user interface. The group partners with local and international organisations to bring high quality technical events to India. Touch Tour Chennai is one such event. More...

The booming IT-ITES industry in India has empowered many Technology Specialists to drop out and pursue their dreams.  IT Graduate and Certified Software Test Engineer Kumar Mannava worked with blue chip companies like HSBC before pursuing his passion of being a Fitness expert and Consultant. And in an online world, it was Facebook that connected him with fitness guru Stan McQuay More...

zSecure is a dedicated IT Security Research Group established in January 2010. zSecure says that its ‘primary aim and interest is to do security research in a responsible manner. All our work is geared to make the digital world more secure.’ So, what happened when the well meaning zSecure team found a very serious security flaw in one of India’s most high profile banks – HDFC ? More...

The SFO Hotel in Bangalore is based on the city of San Francisco, the exterior and interior architecture brings about a flavor of San Francisco. A boutique hotel located close to Electronic City, many of its guests hail from the IT-BPO sector. Extechie Srikanth Karkada is the man behind the Hotel, and he has been inspired by happy memories living and working in San Francisco. More...

The long and difficult battle for gender equality in India is made easier by the fact that many emancipated men are doing all they can and stand shoulder to shoulder with the female campaigners.  Meet FOSS Evangelist, Hacker and self described ‘Friendly Geek’ Techie Pratul Kalia who not only walked the walk in the Besharmi Morcha demonstration, but also helped create their site. More...

While Wikipedia itself is one of the greatest and admired examples of all that is good in the world, the Wikipedia co founder Jimmy Wales is regarded by many as a genius but flawed with few human failings.  On July 29, Techgoss had written about Jimmy’s relationship with columnist Rachael Marsden. Today, Jimmy has written in to Techgoss disputing our views on that friendship. More...